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Separating the Sexes i'm School.


the addition of Neander
Separating the Sexes in School.
On this point, Mr.. Stowe, celebrated
Glasgow teacher, uses the following lam
guage: "The youth Of both sexes of our
Scottish pcasantry have been educated TO-
ge,bcr; and as a whole the Scotch are the
most moral people Oh the earth Educa-
ton in England is given separately, and we
never have heard from practical men that
any benefi, has arisen from the arrangement.
Some. influential individuals there mourn
over the prejudice on this point In Dub
lin, larger number Of girls turned ont
badly who had been educated alone uu,i!
they attained the age of maturity, than Of
those who were otherwise brought up; the
separation Of the sexes has thus been found
to be injurious. 1t is stated, on the best
authority, that of those girls educated in
the schools of converts, apart from boys,
the greater majority go wrong within Il
month after being let loose in society and
meeting the other sex.-They cannot, it is
said, resist the slightest compliment or flat
terry. The separation is intended to keep
them strictly moral hnt this unnatural Sc
clusion actually generates the very prnci-
pies desired to he avoided. We may repeat
that it is Impossible to raise the girls as
high, intellectually, without the boys as with
them, and it is impossible to raise boys
morally as high without girls. The girls
morally elevate the boys, and the boys intel.
lectually elevate girls. But more than
this: girls themselves are morally elevated
by the presence Of boys, and boys are in
tellectually elevated by the presence of
girls. Girls brought up with boys are more
positively moral, and boys brought up in
schools with the girls, are more positively
intellectual by the softcning influence of the
female character. In the Normal Semina-
ry at Glasgow, the most beneficial effects
have resulted from the more natural course.
Boys and girls, from the age of two or three
years to that Of fourteen or fifteen, have been
trained in the same classroom, galleries.
and play grounds, without impropriety
and they are never separated except at
needlework. ."-AutAur's Mugazine.
CAPTURE OF A Gnosr-For several days
past, says the London Star of I7th,
considerable deal of excitemen. 5 been
caused in the n.ighborhood of London st !;
Dockhead, in consequence of its being re-
ported and actually believed by many, that
one of the houses was haunted by veri:a-
ble ghost, So strong was the belief, that
every day thousands Of people collected
about the street, putting a stop to business,
and creating much annoyance to the peace
able inhabitants. The house in question
was inhabited by a workman named Baker,
and his wife and daughter While the
man was out in the day time at his work,
singular noises were heard in all parts of
the house, and breaking of crockery. glass
&c which were thrown about in all direc-
tions by some invisible hand. These noises
soon attracted the attention Of the passers
by, who collected about, and in short time
thereport got abroad that the house in ques-
ton was haunted. The nuisance became
so great that the clergymcn connected with
parish were acquainted with the. circum-
stances. The Catholic priest attended, but
would have nothng'todo with tho subject.
Mr.. Hancock, a gentleman connected with
the District Visiting Society, inquired into
the circumstances, and soon found out that
the ghost was no other than tho daughter,
a young girl about twelve years ofage. To
prevent her following her. bad ihclinations,
she was confined to the house, when she
broke her,father's crockery and furniture in
.sucl, mysterious way as to cause the re-.
port being spread that the house was haun-
ted. The father, by the advice Of others
persons, gave her into custody, and she was
brought before Mrs Combc, charged with
committing the wilful damsgeto her fathers
goods. s~ - '...s5 "a.
The father said he had no idsa at first
that it was she who broke his things, as his
vie told him that she was in the same room
|1wi,hsthe girl when The things were thrown
about and sls did not see nor touch anything,
They both believed that it. was the work Of
ghost, and that the house was haunted. !.
e. sMr. Combe inquired whether it had been
ascertainsa how she cohtrived 4totbreak the
kcroegs,y- without being perceived BY her
Ismabsr Hsf father said that; he under.
stood she fixed tils .ti,s articles sud spul
tsa them HE shsly Il answer 10 ihs
lebsiees Be rfiso1s q lsals 8 ssid that shs
Efathas aud fSiEShegl ousds not Iet her 20 out