Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1883 — How Classes are Preserved in England. [ARTICLE]

How Classes are Preserved in England.

London Truth. The other day a olergyman refused to allow a laborer’s child to attend his Sun-day-school beoause there was a trill at the bottom of her f took. Not long ago, in a parish in a western oounty,there was a little gitf with long,golden curls among the scholars at the national school. One day this child was notice 1 by the Uly o the manor,, an imperious aristocrat who had long ruled the parish with a rod of iron. Next morning the parents were informed that, unless the curls were cut off) she could not attend school. The mother would not comply with the order, and sent the child as usual; but a tew hours later “her ladyship” visited the school, and ordered that the mistress should there and then cat off the offending curls, which was done, and the child returned in the evening cropped and shorn as though she had just come out of the oounty jail Of course her parents might have sued her “ladyship,” but then they v ould have been speedily hunted out of the place. There is still an enormous amount of tyrrany in rural districts.