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A Visit To The Royal Freemasons' School For Female Children.
Very much of the good we saw , must of course be traced to the careful , watchful , and affectionate supervision of the matron , the gifted schoolmistress Miss Souter , and her assistant , Miss Nernot , the latter formerly a pupil in tho School ; and the habits of regularity and cleanliness which are enforced , go far to make up such a happy and united homo as is to be found at tho Royal Freemasons' School for Female
Children , which establishment may , in our opinion , and we know something of public schools for girls , take the very first position in the first rani : of schools in this country . On inquiry we found the system by which these good effects were produced , to be " a time and place for everything , and everything in its time and place . " B y the regulations ,
the—Children rise ( in summer ) at 6 o'clock , . jr . „ ( in winter ) „ 7 ,, Breakfast „ „ 8 „ School , commencing with prayers , ( in summer ) „ SJ . ,, ,, ( in winter ) ,, 9 ,, School closes 12
„ „ Dinner „ 1 „ School reopens „ 2 „ „ closes ,, 5 Tea _ - ,. 6 „ Evening prayers „ 7-t ,, Children retire to bed ,, 8 ,,
Their food , properly of the plainest kind , is , nevertheless , of the best quality , and to show how well they are provided , in this respect , we subjoin the annexed diet table : — - ' Jireal-fusl—Bread and butter , with milk and water . Dinners . Sunday ( Summer . )—Roast beef , vegetables and bread , fruit pies , or bread
and jam . „ ( Winter . )—Stewed beef , dumplings , vegetables and bread . Monday . —Roast , mutton , vegetables and bread , rice pudding , with treacle , or fruit . Tuesday . —Roast and boiled legs of mutton , with vegetables and bread . A \ ednesday . —Beef-steak pics , vegetables and bread . Thursday . —Roast heel ' , with vegetables and bread , also plain pudding . Friday . —Roast and boiled legs of mutton , vegetables and bread . Saturday . —Stewed meat , vegetables and bread , boiled rice pudding and treacle .
I hey have also fruit pics , peas and beans , plum pudding , veal and bacon , salt and fresh fish , occasionally . Tea—Bread and butter , with tea or coffee . Nor must it be supposed that the children are always kept to work , for the schoolmistress very wisely recognises the worth of the old proverb , " all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy , " so there
arc the following holidays observed in the school , viz . : —Easter Monday , Whit Monday , Michaelmas day , Her Majest y ' s birthday , the Earl and Countess of Zetland ' s respective birthdays , and from Christ-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A Visit To The Royal Freemasons' School For Female Children.
Very much of the good we saw , must of course be traced to the careful , watchful , and affectionate supervision of the matron , the gifted schoolmistress Miss Souter , and her assistant , Miss Nernot , the latter formerly a pupil in tho School ; and the habits of regularity and cleanliness which are enforced , go far to make up such a happy and united homo as is to be found at tho Royal Freemasons' School for Female
Children , which establishment may , in our opinion , and we know something of public schools for girls , take the very first position in the first rani : of schools in this country . On inquiry we found the system by which these good effects were produced , to be " a time and place for everything , and everything in its time and place . " B y the regulations ,
the—Children rise ( in summer ) at 6 o'clock , . jr . „ ( in winter ) „ 7 ,, Breakfast „ „ 8 „ School , commencing with prayers , ( in summer ) „ SJ . ,, ,, ( in winter ) ,, 9 ,, School closes 12
„ „ Dinner „ 1 „ School reopens „ 2 „ „ closes ,, 5 Tea _ - ,. 6 „ Evening prayers „ 7-t ,, Children retire to bed ,, 8 ,,
Their food , properly of the plainest kind , is , nevertheless , of the best quality , and to show how well they are provided , in this respect , we subjoin the annexed diet table : — - ' Jireal-fusl—Bread and butter , with milk and water . Dinners . Sunday ( Summer . )—Roast beef , vegetables and bread , fruit pies , or bread
and jam . „ ( Winter . )—Stewed beef , dumplings , vegetables and bread . Monday . —Roast , mutton , vegetables and bread , rice pudding , with treacle , or fruit . Tuesday . —Roast and boiled legs of mutton , with vegetables and bread . A \ ednesday . —Beef-steak pics , vegetables and bread . Thursday . —Roast heel ' , with vegetables and bread , also plain pudding . Friday . —Roast and boiled legs of mutton , vegetables and bread . Saturday . —Stewed meat , vegetables and bread , boiled rice pudding and treacle .
I hey have also fruit pics , peas and beans , plum pudding , veal and bacon , salt and fresh fish , occasionally . Tea—Bread and butter , with tea or coffee . Nor must it be supposed that the children are always kept to work , for the schoolmistress very wisely recognises the worth of the old proverb , " all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy , " so there
arc the following holidays observed in the school , viz . : —Easter Monday , Whit Monday , Michaelmas day , Her Majest y ' s birthday , the Earl and Countess of Zetland ' s respective birthdays , and from Christ-