Life and light for woman . ave their sons work with thehands, since only the coolie class has done that in years gone by. It was afine object lesson for such when the native teachers went out during vacationsto do masons or carpenters work ; and their example bore fruit in changingsentiment. 246 Life and Light \ June The boys and girls yvho are trained to work half a day make muchbetter scholars than those who study all day, and great is the surprise ofsome government inspectors when they find more failures among those whodull their wits over six or seven hours work in school than among theorp
Life and light for woman . ave their sons work with thehands, since only the coolie class has done that in years gone by. It was afine object lesson for such when the native teachers went out during vacationsto do masons or carpenters work ; and their example bore fruit in changingsentiment. 246 Life and Light \ June The boys and girls yvho are trained to work half a day make muchbetter scholars than those who study all day, and great is the surprise ofsome government inspectors when they find more failures among those whodull their wits over six or seven hours work in school than among theorphan children who are brightening their wits while grinding their tools. The happy faces of the little blind children who have been under MissMillards care and training, assure us that busy work is no hardship intheir case. The baskets tlieir skillful fingers produce find ready sale. The articles made in these industrial schools are of a very high and rugs are woven by little boys, and when examined by experts. ART WARE, AHMEDNAGAR, INDIA the work has been found to be flawless. Upon one carpet ten boys workedfor thirteen months, half of them in the morning and the others in the after-noon ; yet not one mistake was discovered in the weaving. The hammeredsilver from the Petit Industrial School of Ahmednagar is accepted byShreve, Crump & Low of Boston for sale. The first children received into the orphanages have already become oldenough to enter upon self-support. Girls who have received the trainingare eagerly sought in iTiarriage, and some of them have entered homes of igoS] Industrial Missions ?^4,i their own under the most favorable conditions. Other girls have becomeassistants in the womens hospitals. Dr. Charles Cuthbert Hall, on hisreturn from India, said that he saw incalculable possibilities for the trans-formation of India in these orphanages. The character-building is morethan the hand-training, yet the latter proves to be an indispensable factor indevelop
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