HAPPY SCHOOLGIRLS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 796, 20 April 1910, Page 3

HAPPY SCHOOLGIRLS.

The Countess Arm a Maria Helens Noaifles, a member of one of the historic families of France, has made a curioue will which has just been proved.- She left her estate at Meads,' Eastbourne, to found. "St. VMary's Orphanage," laying down the following rules for the education of the girls:— No competitive examinations. i No study before breakfast. No study after 6 p.m. , All lessons to be learned in the morning. ; No girl to work more than four and a half houTS daily.' No arithmetic, except the multiplication tables, for children under 10 (vide Herbert, Spencer). No child with curvature of the spine to write more : than five minutes a day until 13. Each girl must bo certified by two phrenologists as not deficient in conscientiousness and firmness. No child to be vaccinated. Religious teaching to be equally far removed from Calvinism and Ritualism. ~' : - Bailey's Comet is almost visible to the naked eye,' and can be seen from the Medical Hall, Manners Street, and tho Cecil Buildings, Lambton Quay, each morning at 5.30. To those whoso.vision is impaired no time should be lost in having their sight tested, which costs nothing.—Advt. Ladies' Costumes are made at the English Tailoring Rooms'. 52 Willis Street. Those who have been gowned by Mr. W. S. Bedford, continually advertise 'aim. -A.dvt.