. Curious schools. • The Flower School at Corlears Hook. devotion, and genuine kindliness have done garments, frowzy heads, and careworn facesare still seen among these little ones ; but there is anencouraging prospect. With all their faults they are singularly charming incident is that of a little girl who wasvery ragged, and was given a new dress at holidaytime. She kept on wearing the old one, when, atlast, it was learned that she had given her new dressto a destitute little companion whose father wasout of work. These girls are all learning to sew ;. and the garmen


. Curious schools. • The Flower School at Corlears Hook. devotion, and genuine kindliness have done garments, frowzy heads, and careworn facesare still seen among these little ones ; but there is anencouraging prospect. With all their faults they are singularly charming incident is that of a little girl who wasvery ragged, and was given a new dress at holidaytime. She kept on wearing the old one, when, atlast, it was learned that she had given her new dressto a destitute little companion whose father wasout of work. These girls are all learning to sew ;. and the garments made -are given to them at amerely nominal price, the central idea of theMission, in all its departments, being to benefit boththe souls and bodies of its little proteges ; for the 227 The Flower School at Cbrlears Hook.


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