Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1896 — Pauper Children of London. [ARTICLE]

Pauper Children of London.

It is/chqrged by responsible people that tffe in which the 18,000 pauper children of London are taught are notbeds of disease and forcinghouses of vice and continued pauperism. It is also said that the same thing is true of the 242,000 pauper children of England and Wales. Moreover, the technical instruction given to the boys in these schools is very poor. As for the girls, they generally leave the scnool with "a dislike to work and a habit of destructiveness, not willful destructiveness so much as careless and wasteful usage of everything.” Examining Counsel (to witness—What is your age, madam? Witness (with charming smile)—lt would do you no good to know, sir, for I am married and out of the market Then the court smiled, the bar smiled, and the examining counsel himself smiled, and the question was not pressed.—New York Dispatch.