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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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ecting room — a very large andbeautiful room, with flowering plants in the window—there is also a piano and pictures. In this room thegirls meet every afternoon for inspection before go-ing to their school-rooms. As cleanliness is next togodliness, it is very necessary that tidy habits becarefully insisted upon. There is a large pool underthe boys building, in which the boys are required tobathe every day in summer and once each week inwinter. For the girls there are, very properly, bath-rooms where they can take their baths privately. All the work of the house, with the help of a su-perintending laundress and tailoress, is done by thegirls. They cook, clean, wash dishes, set tables,wash, iron, make beds, knit, sew, both by hand andon machines, making clothing, and patch and mend.In some of these branches of work they occasionallyexcel, becoming excellent cooks, fine laundresses,neat sewers, and expert operators on the sewingmachine. In addition to performing the work for such aup
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MAKING BRUSHES. Philadelphia School of Reform. large family — six hundred, you remember—theyalso do work which adds to the earnings of the es-tablishment. Some of the smaller girls use the knit-ting machines with great deftness. One little miss ofnine years, perhaps, told me that she could knit on amachine seven dozens of pairs of stockings in oneday. Then, too, the girls have all the stockings tofinish off that are knit by the boys. In the shoeshop a man with two boys, working a half of the day,make the shoes for the entire establishment. Twobakers and three boys make all the bread. In thesewing-room there is a woman, whose business it is tocut out shirts and trousers and frocks and aprons,collars and baking-caps, sheets, tablecloths, andthe other very useful articles which the girls make.To go through the various workshops and see thechildren at work, you would not think there was alazy one amongst them all, for they work like verita-ble beavers. Perhaps one reason for this is t

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