Life and light for woman . d widens, and only God knows the result of the seed-sowing. God has taken two of our girls to himself this term. One was in theKreshman Class, and was a gentle Christian and church member ; the other,a pupil in the primary department, was from a non-Protestant family. Our school routine is like this : The rising bell calls the girls fom theirsleiep at five. Before that hour the kitchen girls and matron have been pre- REPORT OF EUPHRATES COLLEGE, 267 paring the breakfast. At twenty minutes of six the teachers and girls gatherin the dining room ; and after a song, vers
Life and light for woman . d widens, and only God knows the result of the seed-sowing. God has taken two of our girls to himself this term. One was in theKreshman Class, and was a gentle Christian and church member ; the other,a pupil in the primary department, was from a non-Protestant family. Our school routine is like this : The rising bell calls the girls fom theirsleiep at five. Before that hour the kitchen girls and matron have been pre- REPORT OF EUPHRATES COLLEGE, 267 paring the breakfast. At twenty minutes of six the teachers and girls gatherin the dining room ; and after a song, verses by the girls at one table, and aprayer, the merry chatter and clatter begin. Most of the girls are seated on the floor aroiuid the copper tables ;but a number are seated at a table,and learn to eat a la Frank. Oncea week the girls change places, sothat all may learn to conduct them-selves at a table. After breakfastthe girls have their room w^ork andhousework to do. All the w^ork ofthe house is done by the girls, except. MISS MARY L. DANIELS. that they have help of several women inthe washing. Each teacher has a cer-tain portion of the work to supervise ;and at a quarter of eight the great houseis in order, and the wheels for the daybegin to turn. After school at nightthe boarders have a play in the yarduntil dinner is served. Of course, someofthe girls are busy preparing the dinner. miss emma m. barnum. The evenings after dinner they give, one to reading, another to a meeting; onone night the girls gather to hear about other places, when a teacher talksfamiliarly with them as they are busy with their sewing or fancywork ; on
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