. Curious schools. nding their holidays playing in thestreets, digging in the mud, dodging about amongcarriages and carts and sometimes falling into theriver. Lady Betty was only fourteen then, and she wasnot, in spite of her title, rich enough to carry out herplan all by herself : she lives with her uncle, a rathercross old gentleman, I fear, who does not care somuch for the poor of Lorton Norbitts as she Lady Betty is twenty-one she will have fivehundred pounds a year, of her own, but at presentshe has only fifty and an extra allowance of twentyfor pocket money; so, of course, when
. Curious schools. nding their holidays playing in thestreets, digging in the mud, dodging about amongcarriages and carts and sometimes falling into theriver. Lady Betty was only fourteen then, and she wasnot, in spite of her title, rich enough to carry out herplan all by herself : she lives with her uncle, a rathercross old gentleman, I fear, who does not care somuch for the poor of Lorton Norbitts as she Lady Betty is twenty-one she will have fivehundred pounds a year, of her own, but at presentshe has only fifty and an extra allowance of twentyfor pocket money; so, of course, when she camehome full of her new project, she had to get help:she went to the rectors wife first, and then to severalother people who had daughters of her own age; andwhen she had induced about twenty to help in thenew work, she wrote to the London cooking school atSouth Kensington, to engage a salaried teacher forthe first six months. As I am telling this story for the benefit of Ameri-236 Lady Bettys LADY BETTYS TABLE. can girls who would be able to help the poor peopleabout them in this most useful way, I will give you allthe practical details precisely as I got them from LadyBetty herself and the rectors wife, Mrs. Lcrne. 237 Lady Bettys Cooking-School. To begin with, there was a great hunt for a properroom in which to open the school: at last a smallone was engaged for a beginning. The fire was agreat question, for if the chimneys were bad it wouldruin their undertaking: but very soon they decidedupon using gas or kerosene stoves, as being quickand cleanly and convenient. For the use of thisroom from Friday afternoon until Saturday eveningthey paid two shillings a week (about fifty cents).The next point was to furnish it suitably : beginningwith tables, they had a large circular one made toorder of plain, cheap pine, with an open place in thecentre for the teacher or superintendent to stand inand give directions and look at the articles; two longtables were p
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