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304 MADAME LUCE, OF.ALGIEKS.
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to temptations which , the Mussulman law appears to regard with indulgence , they are yet rare exceptions , to which parallel cases may be adduced among
once pupils and turned again out we b woul y the d urge best that French it would schools , be , b unjust oth lay to and attribut reli e gious such ; mis and - conduct to an education onlfitted to develop the most healthy ideas of
morality and self-respect . It y is incontestable that in these schools they receive none but good counsels and good examples . On the threshold of their own families our responsibility ceases ; but if they are not duly
accompanied on the road between their own homes and the scliool , who can tell to what influence they may be exposed . It is for this reason that we again demand the reinstating of the conductrices .
2 ndly . The second measure of which we would take notice , and which has contributed to diminish the number of the pupils , is the suppression of the two francs a month hitherto allotted to each pupil as a treat . It has been
allowed to the infant schools , but taken away from those for children of an older age . It is difficult to understand the Unequal division of this favor , and it must not be forgotten that almost all these children belong to the
very At j thi ) oorest s point class , M . . le Prefet , it is impossible for our interest in these schools not to cause us to wander a little away from the legitimate bounds of our
and subject the , and infant that school we should a creation not bitterl made y dep in lore detriment the creation of these of the schools workshop from workshops which they , and have numb carried ers ; of away young nearl children y , all the for moriiteurs the sake of for the the infant sake schools of , the .
directrices In the first who place receive , it is a patent fixed sum that as thi soon s is a as pecuniary the numb misfortune er of their for the ils pup increases to _^ above 100 , and who see their salary diminished by a franc a
month for every unit below that number . Last year they still counted the one 125 , the other 110 _jDupils . To-day , the first one , under Madame Luce , has About only twenty 76 , and that under irls Mademoiselle frequent the workshop Chevallier who but 63 cause . considerable
expense in their lod young ging g and surveillance . These young , girls are generally moniteurs who have quitted the other schools . What ! is it just that those among them whounder Madame
Luceoccup another ied themselves establishment in native the embroidery fruit of so , much for examp labor , le and , should personal go and investi carry gation , into , ( recherches )? Is it consistent with utility ? We think not . According to our
to opinion resume it would its primary have been destination more , reasonable and to mak to e all of ow it an Madam indus e trial Luce school ' s school . One lance at the figures renders this question still clearer . At this
moment g there are with Madame Luce . 76 young girls 63 with Mademoiselle Chevallier
20 at the workshop Making 159 young girls , for whom three houses , three
directrices and a certain number of sub-mistresses are paid ; while for all of would them united suffice , one to Dire nothing ctric . e , one of one house governing , and a certain spirit numb one system er of mistresses of _lohicli
the letel valu th e is at _ivell of ; the known say future , and . of which the past success ¦ , guarantees most , comp There y was at first some question of admitting married or divorced women
into the workshop . But it is easy to understand how unsuitable was their companionship for the young girls , and it appears that this project has
been ul g iven tion up and . the We almost must not impossibility lose sight of of respectable . the customs women of the going Mussulman out to wo pop rk awa , from their own homes ( Bwhich the report appears to impl
that such y grown-up women as would . y come to work in an ouvroir would y
hardly be fit for the girls to associate with . )
304 Madame Luce, Of.Algieks.
304 MADAME LUCE , OF . ALGIEKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 304, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/16/
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