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To “ teach the young idea how to shoot” is highly laudable, but there are circumstances under which it can scarcely be considered desirable. Here is a case in point. It says that the compulsory education experiment is giving rise to considerable trouble in Boston. The public schools in that city are kept open on Saturday until noon. The newspapers report that some time since a little girl of Abraharaic descent was arraigned before a police court on the charge of habitually absenting herself from school on Saturday. When her case was uuder consideration her father appeared to plead in her defence, and stated that as Saturday was the Jewish Sabbath he and his family attended divine service on that day. This, however, had no weight with the dispenser of justice, who pronounced the girl guilty of a violation of the Compulsory Education Act of Massachusetts, and sentenced her to undergo an imprisonment of three months in a reformatory.
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Evening Star, Issue 4131, 24 May 1876, Page 4
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160HARD LINES. Evening Star, Issue 4131, 24 May 1876, Page 4
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