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150 PHYSICAL TRAINING.
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their father ' s smock-frock or their brother ' s pinafore ? I rather think not . " Terrible is the gravity of his question , so pained is M . Corhim the
menin at the anti-hygienic accusation preferred against by himself lady , that set he to assures hem a pocket us he - would handkerchief prefer to ! such Yet we accusation must give being our
school not vote have against since the thi advantage no s p school hilanthrop of can a ic mudd be gentleman reasonabl y walk . y of supposed All three the miles little to to be g and irls located from will
three miles , from any human habitation : when they get home they you dusters will occupy probabl , not their all y be the p set laytime patched to mind with smock the sewing - bab frock y , or not s and watch all pinafores the the neatl kettle , will y hemmed ; to and repay their
if-France or England for sickly maidens and mothers unequal sa , ere The d charge hiher . we look in the social scalethe worse becomes the
chance for g little girls . We conscientiously , believe that , if there is one place in this king mischief dom to more the fraug human ht frame than another in its tenderest with the
manifestation deadliest physical at the most critical it is the ordinary , boarding school for irls , such schools as thos age e , to which the tradesman and
the professional g , man sends his young daughters . The inconceivable folly of the regulations of these establishments is something which ils
it would be hard to believe , had we not repeatedly questioned pup as to their hours of work , play , food , and sleep . Not only is the exercise which they are in general allowed lamentably insufficient ,
care but in that wet the or children snowy weather get two it hours is discontinued of good romp , and ing nobod play y in takes the schoolmistress
house . In a climate like ours , the first duty of a good , than moral a duty once ) hig superintendence a day her , than either that in , out of is - to any door exercise see mental exercise that in all ( the we , the or in house had young dancing almost girls , sai blind house join d of -man , is more any fit ' s
such for buff , a or a boarding purpose some simil . school It ar is activ not which e necessary has not that a room the g sufficientl irls iven . should date No y be large taug for ht
a certain amount of French or music by a g ; they can bod make so if y they are up instant arrears have _, good imperative before health between they ; ; but we are twelve the twenty cannot needs and , defer and sixteen of are the its more requirements growing irl likel is allowed y human to do to
to another become year delicate ;—and it if is too likely that years of medical a g treatment will not repair the , mischief . Hear Sir James Clark on this
subject : — pernicio physical " The u prevailing s consequen titution system ces demands : a of t female a period the education most of life judiciou is when indeed t s fraug man developmen agement ht with t , t you of most t ng he
girls are sen cons t to t scho of mental ol , where no other object rather ax _^ pears variety to claim of consideration
lishments than the with amoun which they can be improvement stored . At , or an , early hour , in the morning accomp the ,
150 Physical Training.
150 _PHYSICAL TRAINING .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1858, page 150, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051858/page/6/
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