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A Visit To The Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.
the Committee-room , in which I Avaited pending the arrival of Miss Redgrave , I noticed a portrait of the Most Worshipful the Grand Master , presented by an Indian Mason of an unpronounceable name in 1876 , I suppose in memory of the Prince of Wales visit to India . ^ I asked Miss Redgrave , if though it was not the clay for
visitors—which I found out by a board hung up in the hall—if I could see over the Schools ; she promptly replied in the affirmative , and at once conducted me to a school-room Avhere music , & c , are taught . At one end of it are several partitions , containing each a piano . In these the girls practice music , and when the doors are shut , though all
play at the same time , they do not disturb one another . The governess told me they could do with some more of these boxes . We then entered a large hall , in which the elder girls are taught and where prayers are said every day . The floor is laid Avith blocks of Avood , and , like everything else about the place , is a pattern of
cleanliness . Having a lofty roof , the room is delightfully cool , a great acquisition to a school-room ; for where brain work is going on , and especially with young growing persons , it is essential that each should have their cubic space of air . All of us have heard school girls complain of headaches ; no doubt some are sham , but many are owing to the Avant of ventilation and the small space into which they are crammed .
We passed now into the garden , where we found some girls playing lawn-tennis—and how I longed to join them—and some lying on the green sward reading , in the most comfortable attitudes . The laundry , a building standing by itself , was pointed out to me at the end of the garden . The infirmary also , as it should be , is separated from the
Schools , and is a large building . I remarked I hoped it was usuall y empty , and was told just now it is . The Freemason lately spoke of sickness in the School , I hope that , Avithout delay and at any cost , whatever wants doing to remedy this will be clone . Crossing an asphalted playground , we walked through another room , lined all
down it Avith lockers , for eveiy girl to keep her books and treasures in . Now we re-entered the hall , and proceeded upstairs to the dormitories . I forgot to inquire , but from their size I should think each girl has a bed of her own , a thing I wish was always carried out for every child in a family . There would seem to be tAvo long rooms
running the whole length of the wings , at either side of the house , containing beds . A snowy-white quilt of crotchet or knitted work—I must not speak too positively of this—covers each little bed , and very cosy they all looked . Each bed has a number corresponding to the number of its occupier . These rooms are likewise very lofty , and having a double roof , the heat of the sun does not penetrate through .
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A Visit To The Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.
the Committee-room , in which I Avaited pending the arrival of Miss Redgrave , I noticed a portrait of the Most Worshipful the Grand Master , presented by an Indian Mason of an unpronounceable name in 1876 , I suppose in memory of the Prince of Wales visit to India . ^ I asked Miss Redgrave , if though it was not the clay for
visitors—which I found out by a board hung up in the hall—if I could see over the Schools ; she promptly replied in the affirmative , and at once conducted me to a school-room Avhere music , & c , are taught . At one end of it are several partitions , containing each a piano . In these the girls practice music , and when the doors are shut , though all
play at the same time , they do not disturb one another . The governess told me they could do with some more of these boxes . We then entered a large hall , in which the elder girls are taught and where prayers are said every day . The floor is laid Avith blocks of Avood , and , like everything else about the place , is a pattern of
cleanliness . Having a lofty roof , the room is delightfully cool , a great acquisition to a school-room ; for where brain work is going on , and especially with young growing persons , it is essential that each should have their cubic space of air . All of us have heard school girls complain of headaches ; no doubt some are sham , but many are owing to the Avant of ventilation and the small space into which they are crammed .
We passed now into the garden , where we found some girls playing lawn-tennis—and how I longed to join them—and some lying on the green sward reading , in the most comfortable attitudes . The laundry , a building standing by itself , was pointed out to me at the end of the garden . The infirmary also , as it should be , is separated from the
Schools , and is a large building . I remarked I hoped it was usuall y empty , and was told just now it is . The Freemason lately spoke of sickness in the School , I hope that , Avithout delay and at any cost , whatever wants doing to remedy this will be clone . Crossing an asphalted playground , we walked through another room , lined all
down it Avith lockers , for eveiy girl to keep her books and treasures in . Now we re-entered the hall , and proceeded upstairs to the dormitories . I forgot to inquire , but from their size I should think each girl has a bed of her own , a thing I wish was always carried out for every child in a family . There would seem to be tAvo long rooms
running the whole length of the wings , at either side of the house , containing beds . A snowy-white quilt of crotchet or knitted work—I must not speak too positively of this—covers each little bed , and very cosy they all looked . Each bed has a number corresponding to the number of its occupier . These rooms are likewise very lofty , and having a double roof , the heat of the sun does not penetrate through .