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86 THE BLACK COUNTRY.
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this belief is founded upon years of observation . If the collier ' s wife knew how to regulate and keep her honie
little neat swilling and habits process tid of y , care if at times she and understood nicety does not without absolve that which a her grand any from home scrubbing the thousand large and or
, small-will be found in a perpetual muddle ; if also she felt the value , of ' _< the stitch in time , " she would find it the best economy and to teach her
to " look well to the ways of her household , " daughters the same , the rather furnace than send them , while , mere children ,
to They the pit are -bank a difficult and class to -yard deal . with , the independent spirit , which is the of much that is nobleprompting them to resist _^
all attempts to germ influence their homes , such , attempts being looked _xindue interferenceThe schools in these districts are
upon generall as y well attended in point . of numbers , but the pupils change , p frequentl hysical y stren . The gth miner and endurance requires ; little if and it is for education hard his occupation matter does to not convince beyond help
thesetherefore it is not surprising a him of , the importance of a thing the results of which he cannot understand . And the education wanted in these districts is not so
much that of the head as of the heart and hands , and this is espeteach cially a the irl case who as will regards be the the wife women of a of miner the , black and whose country hands . To
must scrub g the floorswash the linencook the mealsand nurse a large Og , the famil King y of of children Bashan , , , various the the exact names mountain dimensions , and order of of the in the , the _\ bedstead Jud world ges to of of
demonstrate Israel , the hei to g her hts of that the the earth is an oblate ranges spheroid , and require , ; her to be able to describe the social condition of the Japaneseis a
, simple absurdity ; yet these are a sample of the questions asked in our schools . remain at national
schools It is averages computed two that years the . tim Two e children years ! to cram the our little brain - with a smattering of so many things—Scripture facts , geography
, No history wonder , grammar that the , natural mistress history of the , reading national , writing school , and stands arithmetic aghast .
with terroron examination days , lest the Nile should , figure as one of the chief , rivers of England , & c . iven
sink little school Among into we , how retain minds the patientl better at that last y have are ; taug yet we frequently ht we trained of expect us , how less to names habits capacity many / of dates year , thoug and s , are and ht always , and g facts how less , to to
more leisure school remarkable life to develop which these for that his children cap hearty a ity get - common , B we etter , taug sense th ht at , than in as the an for old two his gentleman years _ortko -
86 The Black Country.
86 THE BLACK COUNTRY .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 86, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/14/
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