Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-11-01
Peasant Life In Germany.

We copy the following interesting paragraph from
a work Just issued in England ON The Social Con-
dition and Education of the People of gland and
Europe" by Joseph Kay, of Cambridge University
"As have already said, the moral, intellectual
and physical condition of the peasants and operatives
of Prussia, Saxony and other parts of Germany, of
Holland, and the Protestant cantons of Switzerland
and the social condition of the peasants in the great
part of France, is very much higher and happier
and very much satisfactory than that of the
peasants and operatives Of England the condition
of the poor in the North German, Swiss and Dutch
towns, is as remarkable contrast to that poor
of the English towns can well be imagined and
that the condition of the poorer classes of Germany
Switzerland, Holland and France is rapidly impro-
wing. The great superiority of the preparation for
life which poor man receives in those countries
have mentioned, to that which peasant operative
receives in England: and the difference of the social
position poor man in those countries to peasant
operative in England seemed sufficient to explain
the difference which exists between the moral and
social condition of the poor of our country and the
other countries have named. In Germany, Holland
and Switzerland, child begins its life in the society
| of parents who have been educated and brought up
for years in company of learned and gentlemanly
professors and in the society and under the direction
of father who has been exercised in military arts,
and who has acquired the bearing the clean and
derby habits, and the taste for respectable attire
which characterize the soldier The children
countries spend the first six years of their lives in
homes which are well regulated. They are during
tnlS TO orderly h2DltS, to neat ana
clean Clothes and to ideas of the value
of the respect due to the teachers and of the excel
ence of the schools, by parents who have by their
training in early life acquired such tastes and ideas
themselves. Each child at the age of six begins tc
attend school, which is perfectly clean, we'll venti
lated, directed by able and we'll educated gentle
man, and superintendent by the religious minister
and by the inspectors of the Government Until the
completion of its fourteenth year, each child contin
regular daily attendance one of these schoo
daily Strengthening its habits of cleanliness and or
der learning the rudiments of useful knowledge
ceiving the principles of religion and morality anG
gaining confirmed health and physical energy by the
exercise and drill of the school playground. NJ
children left idle in the streets of the towns nc
f children allowed to grovel in the cutters M
children allowed to make their appearance al
the schools dirty in ragged Clothes and the loca
authorities are obliged to clothe all whose parents
cannot afford to clothe them. The children of the
poor of Germany, Holland and Switzerland acquire
stronger habits of cleanliness neatness and industry
at the primary schools than the children of the small
: shopkeeping classes of England do at the private
schools of England and they leave the primary
schools OF these countries much better instructed
than those who leave middle class private schools
After having learnt reading writing arithmetic
singing, geography history and the Scriptures tn,
children leave the schools carrying with them int
life habits OF cleanliness, neatness order and indus
try, and awakened intellect, capable of collectin,
4 truths and reasoning upon them.''
EDITORIAL CoURTEs1Es-The editor of the Clarks
vile Chronicle, in speaking of the Hopkinsylle Ere
Press, says:
o Mr.. Noble is said to be good writer, and w
know him to possess lively imagination he bein,
the self-same individual who charged us thre
his paper with being robber of hen-roosts w
bear him no malice. however on this account, an
offer him our best wishes for his success"
To this Mr.. Noble, with noble magnanimity, re
( plies;
e Thank you, Bob. We reciprocate your goo
wishes and since We have learned something of you
captivating beauty, we withdraw the hen-roos
charge being satisfied that hen of respectable in
stlnct would let you get close enough to make he
your captive"