Teaching Domestic Arts

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 79, 6 December 1883, Page 3

Teaching Domestic Arts

« The Fnjflish tchnol system provides tor the teaching ot cookfa» and sewing, and special grants are allowed lor these branches. In London " social economy" its now to be added. The committee to whom the Board referred the question of introducing t'tis new branch, recommended ie ' both because of the importance of instructing the children of the workifig classes upon such topics a« the need of industry and thrift, the causes which regulate the rate <>f their own wages aud tbe employers' pr fit, the inability of laws to create wealth, the basis of private property aud the like subjects and also because of the important aid which the study of those subjects may bo made to afford in cultivating a sense of duty with reference to industrial life." Much has been eaid about overcrowding, and t' e injurious effect of the school system on health, but v ir Lyon Playtair has just puuetured this bubble by some interesting statistics. The difference in the mortality of children between 183 and 1854, and that of the la*t five years is as follows :— From five to ten years of ape there was in the latter period a diminished mortality amon^ males of thirty percent, and among females of thirty-three per cent. Joshua's Spoon Abraham and Joshua had been invited to a splendid dinner. It was impossible for Joshua not to make capital out of such an opportunity ■ accordingly- he managed to slip a silver spoon into his boot. Abraham was gretm with envy at Jobhua's success, for he had not even manipulated a .-altcpoou. But an idea struck him. : •• My ireuts," he cried, " I vill show you some dricks" Taking up a spoon, he said, " You zee dees spoon 1 Veil, it ees gone," he cried, passing it up his «leev«. '• Y»u viJi find it in Joshua's boon." It was found— Detroit Free Press