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French Children and Schools

N the annexed engraving you | plea that otherwise they might not enjoy may see a group of French the fresh air so essential to their health. children on the sea-beach. Once, however, they are beyond the age They are out for a pleasant of childhood, it is far less common than play spell, and have little in this country for young boys to be desthought or care about school patched to boarding-schools. In the great and its tasks, for this is their majority of cases they live at home, holiday, and they mean to though the girls are often sent to conhave what American boys vent schools, or to private boardingand girls would call "a good schools, where, unhappily, the young ladies sometimes acquire an acquaint- It will be interesting to ance with the wicked world from which our youthful readers to learn they are supposed to be so carefully how French children are educated. The shielded until after marriage . children of well-to-do people are usually If, however, a boy is intended for a put out to nurse in the country, on the learned profession, or for any calling time."

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