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Title: Curious schools
Year: 1881 (1880s)
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Subjects: Schools
Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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notion; but it has since been imitated as allgood charities are, till now there are similar insti-tutions — if so they may be called — in several othercities, and they are on the increase. It was started by some noble Boston women whowished not only to relieve the hard-working moth-ers, but to put the ragged, dirty, neglected, needychildren in the way of growing up to a better andmore useful life, with different ideas from any theycould gain in their own squalid homes. And bystarting them in the right manner, it was hoped thatsome influence might be had over the parents. Miss Anna M. Balch, for now about seventeenyears a teacher in the public schools of Roxbury, andMrs. Shaw, daughter of Professor Louis Agassiz, or-ganized this beautiful charity ; and the first Nurserywas opened on Albany Street in Roxbury, aboutthree years ago, and there the visitor will find thesame obliging matron who has had charge of it fromthe beginning. It is not the purpose to receive children before 2Cj8
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LEFT FOR THE DAY. At a Day Nursery. they can walk, but exceptions are made in extremecases out of kindness to mothers who are very poorand obliged to be away, and have no one to leave theirbabies with. Kindergartens are connected with theNurseries, and as the children grow old enough theypass entirely from the charge of the latter. Of course as infants of a year old are admitted andthey may remain for several years, these little inmatesrank all along in age; though sometimes they seemto be all of a size — a room full of babies. It is ex-pected that all the youngest ones will have a nap inthe course of the day; so they take turns by com-panies in being put to bed in the cribs up-stairs. It is often an amusing spectacle when the timefor the nap arrives. The little detachment ofnappers usually reaches the crib-room in high spirits.There is nearly always a mad little frolic. Sometimesthey run about to each other like so many elves, shak-ing hands, and crying, How do you do? how do youdo

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