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OifcLLINa A SPADE A SPADE33ft *
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Li.— « GALLIJSTG A SPADE- A SPADE." ^-*—
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Plaint speaking is both a difficult and ...
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Two Hundred Years Ago, The Fawtuckets, A...
the person's n e is en t ere d up t recordj and - then sent to every counting-roomand there registered ; No more employment
will Be given to that , person at either of the factories . These rulesenforced from the beginning of operationshave helped to
, ,, render the Lowell factory population remarkable for temperance and respectability .
But few children are employed in all the factories , and on some corporations there are none . BLegislative enactment" children
under fifteen years of age shal y l not be employed in , a manufacturing establishmentunlesswithin twelvemonths next
preceding the term of such em , ploymen , t , they have attended . some public or private day-school under teachers approved by the school
committee of the place in which tlie said school is _kejDt , at least one term of . eleven weeks ; and unless they shall attend such a
_schooj for a like period during each twelve months of such emp loymen yearl t . y " attend Those _^ a under simil ar twelve school years for a of term age must of eigh have teen attended weeks . ,
The penalty is fifty dollors for each violation . We never heard of one . A child is not received who does not present
. the required certificate , signed by a teacher , and the school committee *
( To be conttuued . )
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Plaint Speaking Is Both A Difficult And ...
Plaint speaking is both a difficult and an unthankful task , and even the hearing thereof is to the majority of people a sort of
moral shower-bath , bracing , but disagreeable in the extreme . There are reasons in the nature of man why this shrinking is not
wholly a matter of physical or moral cowardice . The cuticle of the body and the cuticle of the soul alike preserve due sensitiveness
on condition being kept in an atmosphere of medium warmth ; the body becomes gradually comparatively indifferent to any
influence which it has sufficient vitality to resist , and the souL which should . perpetually be brought in contact with ideas of vice
and degradation , would end by becoming indifferent also , unless sustained by such special influences of faith and grace as are not
here in question . It is , therefore , necessary for the preservation of a decent social atmosphere , and absolutely indispensable for the
training of the young , that the plainer forms of wickedness should be kept in the background of our picture of existence , and that
ordinary literature , such as lies on our tables , and ordinary speech _, such as circulates in our drawing-roomsshould ignore the black
truths of human life ; , and that therein , a spade should not b &
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1863, page 339, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071863/page/51/
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