. Punch . ng, cookery, and house-keeping,which are no more learnt by instinct than anatomy or algebra, geo-graphy or Greek, a lady four years since established a training-schoolat Norwich, where the object was, she tells us— To give the opportunity for gaining a good education, with the addition of plainsewing, mending, and cutting out; and also (what every mother was to understandon putting her girl to school) such practical acquaintance with cookery and house-work, under my excellent housekeeper, that every girl might know how a houseshould be kept, and should acquire habits which would here
. Punch . ng, cookery, and house-keeping,which are no more learnt by instinct than anatomy or algebra, geo-graphy or Greek, a lady four years since established a training-schoolat Norwich, where the object was, she tells us— To give the opportunity for gaining a good education, with the addition of plainsewing, mending, and cutting out; and also (what every mother was to understandon putting her girl to school) such practical acquaintance with cookery and house-work, under my excellent housekeeper, that every girl might know how a houseshould be kept, and should acquire habits which would hereafter make all thedifference between a tidy and happy home or the reverse. Surely children, one would think, would like a school like this,where as a relief from their arithmetic and spelling, some morningswould be spent in learning how to make a pudding, which, at thesmall charge of threepence each for dinner, the pupils were at libertyto eat when it was made. Surely, too, poor parents would like to see. their daughters grow up handy, useful, clever girls, who would makegood servants and good housekeepers when wives. But no, povertyand pride go often hand-in-hand, until they drag each other down intothe dirt. After a trial of four years, the lady is compelled to own herscheme a failure, solely because she found the girls too proud to dothe housework, and the parents so absurd as to encourage their a letter to the Norwich Mercury she says :— I was not prepared to find the class of parents I had to do with would appa-rently accept the education, but make every excuse to evade the industrial work, orkeep their daughters away when it was to be done, and threaten to remove them ifthe household duties were required of them. In corroboration of this latter fact, Imay observe that twenty-three girls have been taken away from the school expresslybecause they would not do the housework. Whether in the present day girls areallowed to determine for themselves what they shal
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