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A Visit To The Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.
or make a tasty pudding of a few materials . In fact to learn the art of making a shilling go a long way in providing food ? : On the Continent they manage these things better than we do . Every Frenchwoman has her stock-pot . We English people throw away much that is good . But especially are the lower classes improvident in these
matters ; this I can certify from experience . Therefore , the teaching the orphan daughters of Freemasons how to cook and manage their own household is a grand work , and it may be diffusing information to hundreds of others . If any of these young ladies become clergymen ' s wives , they may be of great use in a parish by influencing
the women to be thrifty . " Take care of the pence and the pounds Avill take care of themselves " is a very true saying , and can be applied in many ways . The discipline the girls are under here is also another grand feature , for being day after day in training , habits of order and neatness are formed which cannot well be effaced in after
life . With all the evils connected with public school life amongst boys , and I suppose to a certain extent girls' schools are not free , I am convinced a public school-boy is far superior in ability to , and more able to hold his own against a boy who has never been from home , good as that influence is . Discipline is to the mind what cleanliness is to the body , indispensable . I referred before to the projected
SAvimming-bath , which , when completed , will make these schools almost perfect . This is the only girls' school I know of possessing such a luxury . The swimming-bath is far too seldom found in boy ' s schools , though every English boy should know how to use his limbs in water . And if boys , why not girls too ? though the former are all
through life more exposed to accidents at sea and in rivers . But apart from the humane side of being able to save the lives of others , or our own , swimming should be taught in every school , from the great public schools down to Board Schools . In London , I rejoice to say , that the Board School children are learning , and lately received
their prizes at the Mansion House from the hands of Bro . the Lord Mayor . The committee of the Girls' Masonic Institution are worthy of the highest praise for the step they are about inaugurating , and only those who daily go into the sea or river , or use the more homely sponge-bath , can testify to the luxury of cold water , and how it helps
to preserve the body in health by keeping the pores of the skin free from secretion and dirt . For my own part , I would rather go without my breakfast than my bath . I trust every girl in this school will be taught to swim , excepting those who may suffer from a weak heart , or whom the doctor forbids to enter the bath . Probably they will of their own free will and accord use it , but if not , it should be compulsory . The inmates of the Institution cannot be aware of the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A Visit To The Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.
or make a tasty pudding of a few materials . In fact to learn the art of making a shilling go a long way in providing food ? : On the Continent they manage these things better than we do . Every Frenchwoman has her stock-pot . We English people throw away much that is good . But especially are the lower classes improvident in these
matters ; this I can certify from experience . Therefore , the teaching the orphan daughters of Freemasons how to cook and manage their own household is a grand work , and it may be diffusing information to hundreds of others . If any of these young ladies become clergymen ' s wives , they may be of great use in a parish by influencing
the women to be thrifty . " Take care of the pence and the pounds Avill take care of themselves " is a very true saying , and can be applied in many ways . The discipline the girls are under here is also another grand feature , for being day after day in training , habits of order and neatness are formed which cannot well be effaced in after
life . With all the evils connected with public school life amongst boys , and I suppose to a certain extent girls' schools are not free , I am convinced a public school-boy is far superior in ability to , and more able to hold his own against a boy who has never been from home , good as that influence is . Discipline is to the mind what cleanliness is to the body , indispensable . I referred before to the projected
SAvimming-bath , which , when completed , will make these schools almost perfect . This is the only girls' school I know of possessing such a luxury . The swimming-bath is far too seldom found in boy ' s schools , though every English boy should know how to use his limbs in water . And if boys , why not girls too ? though the former are all
through life more exposed to accidents at sea and in rivers . But apart from the humane side of being able to save the lives of others , or our own , swimming should be taught in every school , from the great public schools down to Board Schools . In London , I rejoice to say , that the Board School children are learning , and lately received
their prizes at the Mansion House from the hands of Bro . the Lord Mayor . The committee of the Girls' Masonic Institution are worthy of the highest praise for the step they are about inaugurating , and only those who daily go into the sea or river , or use the more homely sponge-bath , can testify to the luxury of cold water , and how it helps
to preserve the body in health by keeping the pores of the skin free from secretion and dirt . For my own part , I would rather go without my breakfast than my bath . I trust every girl in this school will be taught to swim , excepting those who may suffer from a weak heart , or whom the doctor forbids to enter the bath . Probably they will of their own free will and accord use it , but if not , it should be compulsory . The inmates of the Institution cannot be aware of the