The native American., 1838-09-01

.lprice. In some instances, too, It is connected
\ with cheap clothing society; in others, it pro
q vides clothing ilselft to limited number of chill
fdren and in others, again, it recommends il
scholars to the governors of more richly en-
dowed clothing charity school, To be sur
these are only collateral advantages. But it is
perhaps, excusabe in parent, delivered by th
Royal Maternity Society," to value these abov,
1 any Of the more obvious and legitimate benefit
to be derived from system of education. a
"A parent Of this kind, however, has hardly
done Justice to herself or to her child till she ha
succeeded in getting him admitted into schoo
where he will be Immediately and permanently
clothed This advantage is to be found in tn
Protestant Dissenters' in the 'Parochial,' or il
the Ward charity SCHOOL, and she secures hin
presentation 10 one Of these, either by recon
mendaton from the sNational school, by th'
spontaneous offer of her husbands employer, o.
| by her own importunate applications at the doo
of some other Subscriber 1t is true, some few
industrious and careful parents in the neighbor
hood object to putting their children into these
charity schools. With more independence thar
wisdom, they revolt at the idea of seeing theil
children walk the streets for several years in a
livery which degrades them by marking them out,
like the parish paupers' Of former days, as the
objects of common charity. But the parent in
question has no such scruple; she has tasted the
sweets, and therefore never feels the degradation
of charity. She is saved the expense of clothing
her own child herself, and she observes that
almost all her poor neighbors, like the dog in the
fable, have come to think what is really disreputa.
BILE to be badge ofdistinction. She knows, too
that most of the 'gentlefolks' who support these
charities, openly proclaim (oh monstrous absur.
dityD that they were more especially designed for
an 'aristocracy among the poor
cit is possible that she may not succeed in
getting her child into clothing charity school;
it is more than possible, too, that she may find
a more profitable employment for him than at
tendance at the 'Natonal;" she may keep him
at home all the week to help her nurse her fourth
and fifth babies, or she may earn few pence by
sending him out as an errand-boy. Yet even
under these circumstances she does not necessarily
lforego the means of getting him an education or
suit of clothes for nothing; even then she can
send him to one of the innumerable Sunday
she can apply to the Educational Clothing So
ciety.' The object of this society is the lending
Of clothing to enable distressed children to attend
distressed one, and he is provided by the 'Educa-
which he wears all the Sundays of one year, and
in case Of past regular attendance at school, all
the ek-days Of the next. The Sundays of the
second year he begins with new suit Of clothes
as before, ts M G.a .@
4 = Fhe probability, however, is, that by the
time the boy is eight nine years old, his mother
does succeed in procuring his admission into the
Clothing Charity School, and there is the same
probability that she will continue him in it. She
has strong reasons for so doing; for she knows
that he will not only be clothed and educated at
the expense Of the charity, but that, when he is
fourteen--that is, when he has remained five or
six years in the school--he will be apprenticed
by it to some tradesman, with a fee, varying in
the different schools from g2 to g5.
"At fourteen, accordingly, the boy is put ap-
prentice by the charity to weaver, and at the
expiration Of the usual term he begins work as a
journeyman. He has hardly done so before he
proposes to marry girl about his own age. lie
is aware, indeed, that there are difficulties in the
way of their union, and that even on the mos
favorable suppositon, their prospects in life
be considered fauering. He has saved no money
himself and his intended is equally unprepared fol
the expenses of an establishment. He knows
that, working early and late. he can earn no more
than los. week; that in case of sickness or the
failure of employment, he may frequently be de-
prived even of these and that his own father
with a wife and seven children, was in this very
predicament but the winter before. Nevertheless
mature intended every one to marry:' and, in
the case of himself and his beloved, ut is thei,
lot 10 come fogether.' On these amanswerabl.
grounds, he takes room at 2s. week, and thus
utterly unprepared, as he appears, either for the
ordinary or contingent expenses Of family, he
marries.
1--WE may suspect however, from the result
that he is not rash and improvident in this con-
duct as, upon an ordinary calculation he mus,
appear to be.
.'Within few months she has the prospect OF
child, and child brings with it m,Gny erpenses.
But no matter; he need not pay them, for in his
neghborhood he may fairly calculate upon having
them paid by charity Charity never failed his
mother in her difficulties; and why, in precisely
The same difficulties, should it be withheld from
him In the case of his wife, therefore, as in that
of his mother, the 'Lying-in Hopital,' or the
'Lying-in Dispensary,' or the Royal Maternity
Society," provides the midwifery, &C., the work
house the nurse, the Benevolent Society blank
els, linen, pecuniary relief, &c. The parish
DOCTOR the rHspensary doctor,' or some other
'chaitabie' doctor,' extra drugs and medical at
tendance. By little management he may avail