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230 LA SOGUR ROSALIE.
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in habits of modesty and politeness which would have done honor tual to the class _highest of studies ranks . just If as the she Superior would have excluded exclude the d more topknots intellec and
flouncesit -was evident , that piety and order reigned in the little assembl , In no school did the children read and write more
correctly , nowhere y . did they know their prayers better , or possess neater habits and more intelligent open faces . Every day she visited them ;
the the good corner children , she always crowded went round up her to , and it , dried if she its saw tears a little , hel one ped in it
through its lesson , and asked forgiveness for the penitent . In her old mother age she _^ to used read often how to good say to and her p last leasant pupils she , _" was I taug ! ht She your always dear
; knew her lessons , and you'll be like her , will you not ? " The little girl would promise , and would go home , and tell them what La
Soeur Rosalie had said of her mother , which naturally proved a strong Soeur met stimulus a child to the in the child street and , deli she g used hted the to ask household -where . it If went La
to school . If it went to none , she sent for the mother , reproved safeguard her for neg a li parent gence , could showed possess her that for Christian a child ' s education obedience was and the respect best ,
and the best incentive to filial care in declining years . Sometimes the mother was not to blame ; the child had not been received at
school for want of room , for , in spite of the munificence of the municipality of Paris towards the system of primary instruction ,
the schools were far from affording adequate provision for the wants of the population . Then she would take the little girl by the hand ,
ticular and presenting school , she her would herself say to " the Find Sister me who , I beg had of charge you , a of little that room
parfor this child . " " But we are quite full , ma mere" 6 C Look well , she is so slihtshe will not take much room , and you will give
g ; me so much pleasure . " At the voice of La Soeur Rosalie all the ils pressed closer togetherand made room for the new comer ,
pup , for schoolroom they dearl she y loved went to to p look lease at her their . On luncheon her part baskets , "when , she and left at the the
end of lesson time the lightest were found to have become the best filled !
whom got She together she also knew busied classes to herself be in devoted the in Hue the to foundin the Banquier cause g of , of new begg Christian institutions ing from education . peop She le ,
the sum necessary to secure their permanent foundation : exerting all the influences at her commandshe persuaded the municipality
, there to adopt and the a workshop new school opened ; a reli in g connection ious establishment with the was classes created , thus
system introducing , of visitation the industrial was begun element and of the instruction miserable . Before population long of a
, the suburb outside the Barriere _d'Ivry was brought in a measure _, under benevolent superintendence .
In 1844 La Soeur RosaH _^ organised a crdche _, or place of recep-
230 La Sogur Rosalie.
230 LA _SOGUR ROSALIE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 230, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/14/
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