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AN INTERESTING BL.UE BOOK. 2 * 23
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To The Generality Of Readers "An Interes...
_children This half and -time on system children is not untried with the . It mo has st been satisfactory tried on results factory ; pauper
independent its munity highest . Doub fruits tless remain and , its then to advantages ascend _Tbe reaped to the will by upper other first and classes be middle secured of the classes to com the - ;
bothespeciall poor y the , girls , suffering from lengthened school hours . which The , languor made no and impression restlessness and of the ielde afternoon d no progress school , will the be lessons
exy , the changed universal for brisk jubilation out-door of exercise school-boys or active at the work inauguration . We can of fancy such
an epoch of holidays must have . remarked that the irls of a first-rate g
National Everyone School , in spite of the afternoon hour devoted to needlethe work boys , are . quite What as is far to advanced account for in thi information s ? Simp their ly and the work intelli fact that g and enc their e the as
minds have been rested and refreshed by , heard succeeding of an lesson establishment is more for easily learnt ladies in consequ whose ence parents . We belong have young
drill in to contemp a is great practised lation Peace ; for but part our we y National ( the believe Society School no of such Friends irls violent . G ) ymnastic in measure which exercises military need be
shortened are already hours in practice to find in a our lace infant in the schools upper g , schools and onl . y In need another the
the short hours would p benefit the girls . They would be way released for home dutiesand learn something of domestic
management before engaging destined , in the non Girls -domestic constantl employments kept to at
which so many girls are . are y home is to wanted help in to domesti mind c bab matters father ; even is working boys are at occasionall a distanc y— e , y ;
Mary and must have his dinner sent , and she is _keiJfc at home day after day , and week after week , that she may render these two services hours so of
: the necessary little to irl ' s the time overtasked were wanted mother for dail . But lessons if onl and y these served to make * 'her g an intelligent and useful handmaid y , of the house , few
mothers would fail to secure them for her child . Private _Schools . —The first section of a chapter on Teachers The evidence
is very devoted clearl to y the prove important s that the subj maj ect of ority private of these schools are too . in old the too worst
possible condition . Dr . Hodgson says—" None are , poor , too way school ignorant to keep regard ing , too . themselve feeble Domestic , s too , and servants sickl to y be , too regarded out unqualified of place by ; others discharged in any as unfit or every bar for
maids needlewomen ; vendors consumptive of toys or lolli patients pops ; keepers in an advanced of small stage eating ; -houses cripples ;
; almost loor bed-ridden and ; men persons and of women at least of seventy doubtful and temp eig er hty ance years ; out of
_-* lowest ge . " paupers class A sing , of le p instance rivate schools will suffic . A e concernin widow of g the seventy conditio has n of seven the
An Interesting Bl.Ue Book. 2 * 23
AN INTERESTING BL _. UE BOOK . 2 * 23
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1861, page 223, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061861/page/7/
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