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SCHOOLS IN PALERMO. 103
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w be omen fore 10 and o ' clock the trivial , for there reason is li g tt iven le energ for y st ay t _awake away in for Sicilian days
includes are sim , ply preposterous to us h Northerners arithmet . The reading course of wri stud ting y
grammar , geograpy , , , , s Italian ional . lessons Besides on this natural , there objects is the . reli However gious teaching bare and this occa may - for the class of
g appear irls t that in , it order can is sufficient as to yet enable be and induced the more relations to th join an of the sufficient school irls . to The send govern them - poor
m men allo ean ws , of three suppor tari t , and a day give = one promi shilling se of becoming , to those g good who mistresses have t no , .
and accoun On learned our t of first illness much visit , bu that to t subsequen this was school interesting tl , y the we dire made of the ctress her priv was acquaintance ate absen histories on ,
longer of the pup to be ils . called The g so irls ) , were ( some for of the them most indeed part were -so exceeding too old any ly their relations had
ug sen ly ted , that to th one eir could becoming not hel teachers p feeling , only after all efforts con had - failed to husbands for them . Of the exceptionsthree
charming procure young sisters particularly struck us , and they t , urned out to be the orphan children of a judge— des a man titute of good and each stand of
the ing— three who was had receiving died , leaving the his 3 tari famil a day y for the 3 ; years of her
education . the _BTone school of . these They girl must s can have come some alone , male nor even relative two with together them to . hand
onl Unfortunatel some Many y t and aking day well s w t hem - j passed dre oining ssed and t y tli hese oung fe e t school chin 3 pre man g tt w them , ith who orp the away han proved intention s escor from to t be ed their of their b becoming y lessons a uncle - . ,
the teachers , does and y no I t am imp sorry ly much to say general I do no w t believ om on e the the girl par s t of
t a o bsence be pup trusted of , a fe alone eling . of The fitness inordinate , makes them love of dress t finery ed too t , , "in and l a f way the th
attention quite unbe in com the ing street their occupa where t t he innumera and calcul bl e idler o s are e or ver read But y with to return a foolish r to , the or , it class may -room be , impertinent the curious word old . dismantled
questions sweet chapel -lo , and oking in our young first hy visit woman which there of : she about our , did Eng 25 with lis , h to f about r answer iend b as a much ged few
intelligence as geograp an English , child of 12 years , but with none of the living feeling be of found the reality of the children world , its roundness ,
etc I ., fear which 'indeed is to there was amongst little real our knowledge . amongst the irls at , allfor , what they knew they repeated word for word
from g the class , booksand went quite wrong directly a question ,
Schools In Palermo. 103
SCHOOLS IN PALERMO . 103
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1863, page 103, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101863/page/31/
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