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WHY BOYS ARE CLEVERER THAN GIRT.S. 117
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school supposing . Let the us abilities imagine on both the contrast sides to be between equal . the To boys return ' and to girls our '
compartments In sits . the sick mistresswhose scanty income hardly
one poor , provide irits s she her is with striving food in and vain decent to explain raiment the . mysteries Without of energy a sum or in
division sp , which indeed she scarcely understands herself , to a group of girls , who stand around little interest her , their suppressed feel in their yawns task and And weary wh
faces should , shewing they strive how to excel ? For them they there is no prize at . the end of y the half-yearthe prize being given to the best scholar in arithmetic
in the whole , schooland the girls are well aware that , with their inferior instruction , they have no chance of competing successfully
There against stands the boys the . master , Now at we his will desk look he into is a the young other man compartment , full of life . ,
and small energy tradesman , whose t he alents distinguished have raised himself him in at the school world , . was The made son ' of a
monitor a larger , income then a pup than , il his teacher father , and and finall holding y became a far a master higher , position earning
a , in interested society . and He ive teaches their whole with attention animation ; note and sp the irit vexation , the boys of the are g
lad who _coiild not tell the price of a hundred pairs of boots , at thir-Those is teen now and who so sixpence triump attain hantl the each oftenest y , taking as quickl to his this y as place envied the other at position the boy head below will of at the him the , class who end .
, of the half year receive a handsome prize , and every boy is ambitious results of We carry have ing A it brother seen off . the and means sister of have education been , broug let us ht now up at glance this school at the ,
year and are the . now eldest about . She to beg can in laboriousl knit earning and their sew and very livelihood neatl with y . much , she The can girl read is and a
tooand write slowly and y , can , pains difficulty , , add up the little bill of articles that her mother has bought at the shop . Pier brother can read fluentl calculations y , write with a good
running hand , and make the most impossible perbrother fect A accuracy shop and -ke sister eper without in both the a slate town l , he for being also the understands situation in want . of The book an - assistant lad keep asks ing , . the six appy
broug shillings equall ht y capable up a week in the , chooses wages same , school the the cheapest girl , the onl tradesman y hour article four in , . and the The supposing as g they irl the goes them have master on to been trial has be
for a weekbut ere she has been an shop , discovered ,, her deficiencies ; she cannot reckon a customer ' s bill under ten minutesand if urged to greater speed makes awful
blunders . When the , day ' s business is over he dismisses her , and desires that her brother may attend on the morrow in her stead . himself well worth
his He wage comes s , for , and he g can ives add amp up le satisfaction the customers , proving bills in a moment , and
Why Boys Are Cleverer Than Girt.S. 117
WHY BOYS ARE CLEVERER THAN GIRT _. S . 117
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1858, page 117, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101858/page/45/
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