Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — Where Girls Never Go to School. [ARTICLE]

Where Girls Never Go to School.

Girls in Iceland receive no educational advantages. Everything of that sort is lavished on the boys. The question of providing for the girls has of late yeaip engrossed much attention, but owing to the poverty of the people and the miserable means of communication slight progress has been made. The mother has been the universal school-mistress in Iceland as far as the girls, are concerned. Instruction in reading and religion is compulsory. In the fall the clergyman visits every house in his parish for the purpose of examining the children in reading and the catechism, and if satisfied with their progress he invites the parents to send the children of 12 and 14 years of age to him during Lent for further instruction in preparation for confirmation, which is compulsory at the ages of 14 and 16.