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    -Sfrt L.—THE ABERDEEN IOT)USTBJAL SCHOOL...

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    . -« BESS ¦»- - Duein g a late visit to ...

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    ( 335 )

    ( 335 )

    -Sfrt L.—The Aberdeen Iot)Ustbjal School...

    -Sfrt L . —THE _ABERDEEN _IOT ) USTBJAL SCHOOLS . _££ —

    . -« Bess ¦»- - Duein G A Late Visit To ...

    . - « BESS ¦» - - _Duein g a late visit to Aberdeentlie meeting of the British .

    , Associationthe Prince Consort's admirable address , the fine new Music Hall , , the far-famed bridge of Dow , the treasures of the Lord ohn

    Archaeolog Hussell ical freeman collection of that , the cit ceremony and the which sanitary made movement J then

    a y , attention agitating but the we ladies must , in turn them claimed bto , and ive for an a account time absorbed of an institu , our - pass yg

    tion so powerful , for good , that a narrative , of its rise and progress cannot Ibe unwelcome to the readers of these pages . two hundred and

    In 1841 the streets of Aberdeen were infested by maintain eighty children themselves , under b fourteen begging years and of stealing age , who . No were one known could go to

    y b along ehind the him streets without miserable a creatures relay of with little blue beggar faces -boys , woful whining eyes , poor

    and hands , and feet fearfully red and swollen ; seventy-seven of them had been committed to prison during the previous year ,

    and the returns from the courts of justice showed the terrible amount of the criminal juvenile population . These little beggar-Watsonoffice

    broug boys ht were him a into great constant social contact problem with . the Sheriff little criminals _' s , and

    sick at heart of the miserable profitless work of sentencing them to short imprisonmenthe _woi'ked out a lan of prevention instead

    on of punishment the 1 st of . With October , the aid 184 of 1 a an few Industrial p cordial friends Feeding he - _oxoened School . _,

    There is no one feature , of this , school which is not to be found in some other school , poor-house , or hospital , but there is no other wherthe different

    institution ( save those founded on its model ) e parts secret are of the so success combined which in one has whole attended ; and it . here In day we -schools believe neither is the

    food famil nor tie emp is broken loyment : but is found here , food , in is hosp provided itals , and from poor a feeling -houses that the it

    labor is a mockery y suited to to their offer years starvin because g children it is useless instruction to talk without of the advantage ifc ; and

    of The industry good results to those were who not , have slow seen in appearing nothing but : the idleness wholesome at home food _. soon told upon the bodies of the children ; instead of the downcast

    prevailed look the hunger streets , the or . sulk grown at The y all or hour absence habit restless s without attracted of cunning the the general youthful , activit old perpetual attention y , beggars heartiness , molestations and who , peop and stole le good walked . from -will _,

    The attendance at the school was good , owing partly to the rule afternoon school should

    that those who were absent from forenoon or

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 335, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/47/