SEWED INTO HER CLOTHES.
The teacher of a'little immigarntgiri had' been trying -to induce her to : take .a'bath.' The protest..of her • indignant: mother, niado' through an interpreter, ran thus,' says '"The Youth s'Companion" : : ■■■■■ ' ■■'.■. ■■,";' • "Shall I unsew;■ my child out of. her 'new '' warm 1 .woollen clothes' that I havesewedrher. safely into for the,winter,.and,puti, water on her'bare skin? No> : I pill not'dp it'.,. Water is dangerous on the cold : ,weather. , J am a good mother. .She; , shall be warm,'and she shall->iot;be; wet. . Ifshe\ ; is riot vevy : clean, what matter? She , is clean'enough : and she does not .go to school to bo cleaned but to learn booksj.aud'she caiilearn'bopks if she is dirty."; She was bathed, nevertheless',' and,- was not again. s.ewed into her dlrifhee that wiater,- ; >-, •■■,„■•' : ':--- ■■■:»■ ..-'■•• -v*- I .>• ! ' .■<■••■■■■■■■
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 410, 20 January 1909, Page 3
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126SEWED INTO HER CLOTHES. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 410, 20 January 1909, Page 3
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