WASHING CLOTHES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 493, 28 April 1909, Page 8

WASHING CLOTHES.

METHODSv AT-- A' ; iiAtFNDRY , CLASS.

; : ; : V'.: a- yiGOßojjs. ; complaint. : . ■ ; ; ■ ■; \ •■;': : ; •,:} ! (BT TELEDBA^H—SPECIAL COKIIESrONDENT.) !};,{-. ■■'] 'v : v<^' 'V'' ! . >' Christphuroh, April 27.'. ' : i: ''..'■ At' the : annual* meetilig:!.of' householders of the: Richmond■ School' District liist, evening. ■ Mr., G.: W.' Russelli M.P., said that life hadv! a'.eorious complaint'to; mako in regard certain laundry class;.which.was' held at. tho; Normal , . School for the'; instruction:;of'school ' oluldrou; The .children of this"';': particular - class, scholars the .lUchmond : , School), were. instructed ; by their teachers to.-.'' bring■'•certain articles of their, own clothing;-, tojbe laundried ;for the;pufpoßes:_6f: inStruc-; tion: ; One .weeki , howoverj thq; children' were: informed i that they, need not" bring- theirown , linen. When the pujJils reached the claes-rdpm-they found' that; the teacher hadbrouglit' out j a quantity.of her 'omr.personil clothing,, which she set , ;the; girls''to; wash.' '■ His' own: daughter was amongst'tho,number,' and Mrs. , ■Russell:' ! had' , withdrawn her dauglibor;from ;, ■tho clasJ3p.and" I would..not,allow!her; to attend; any more. It was. a scandalous thing "'that' the children of any school should; havo been '■ asked to wash a : teacher's cldthing.'fHe had been ihformed that- tlio lady iilEtructor was an ' importation from England. He i quite bolieyed it. .Porlmps'heryiews of,colonial!Hfo;, were somowhat dilForent from; other'people's ilr she imagined that she could turn school girls, into laundry women-for her own benefit. H«-.V moved: - "That this-: meeting; l : havingVbeea>. made aware that .the; teacher>of a laundry', instruction clnss. had'iised the girls'.66rvicee for.tbe purpose , of-doing; her; own washing, instructßj'tho ; chairman, to conjmunicatowith" the Education Board regarding the' matter. , . , ; Tho headmaster of tho school said that'he knew, only '.what' had' been told him by tho scliolars.. .Mr; J. Howellj. the: principal of the Technical-School," was; .responsible for the i work in ;the; laundry■ class. He had'heard statements regarding' tho scholars •washing . -the teacher's. olotheß.-. .■-!;:. ■■'•■'•-■.'. s : J'. / / A householder suid that .ho;' Wanted •to . know how.the children' could learn: tho;work'; if .they had no clothing to .wash.'. , .; He thought : that Mr. Russell, before moving tho'motion, . should havo coiumuiiicated m'th "the: Normal' 1 - School 'on'the matter.; Thomotion was pro-.'. ninturo, and ho would oppose it. , '; i ' In reply to a question as to whether: Mr.' Russell liad found;out whether it was' the : teacher'B pereonal' clothing 'that, : had been ' washed, the.chairman naid that it had been put to him> as chairman of the meeting, thai;' such was the case,'_ and ho' would, put' the motion to tho meeting; [ ,; ri 1 ; .'-■;., .; : ;'.;'-, The motion was carried > unanimously v : ■ '