The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-09-30
PH(ENIX SUPPLEMENT-,
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AUNT Dorothy, wish you would ad.
wise me about school for the children
for I'm 30 worried don't know what to
do.'' Il. t,.lli.
9i.'' '''Well. child, what sort OF advice do
you Want? It seems to me, that am onR
80 many schools as we have in our town, j.,
you can surely find one to suit Mary and
Nettie.'
'It's true,, there are great manv
schools; but, I really don't know of ono
that suits Ine altogether."
81 'sWhy, Susan, think, from what +
know Of Mrs, Porter's school, that YOU
could not do better than to send both
the girls to her."
"Well, 80 thought, and I went to see
her Yesterday, .intendiny to enter them,
but I'm all at seq again
''Why, what is the difficulty2"
"Well, her TERMS did not suit our cir
cumstapces; and when asked her if she
wouldn't take less. in consideration of
my sending two, she said that they must
''be put in different classes, and that she
would be, obliged to devote to each some
extra time and attention, because she
found them very backward and not pre-
pared to study with her regular olasse. ="
We'll, Susan, you could not object to
t9at; and think it muet be very trying
to teacher;to be asked to class pupils
alter her school has been in operation
for o month. You ought to be willing
to. pay something extra when you ask
suoh a thing .s
But. Aunt Dorothy. you know how
1t was-I was sick and could not get
their clothes in order IN time. and I
wasn't going to send my children to
school till I could send them vel!
dressed" 'h uie
- will not argue that point with you
now, Susan; but I will Say that you
ought not to ask Mrs. Porter to consider
that,ln making her charge"
well. It's customary, at any rate, for
teachers to make deductions when two
are sent from one family"
"Perhapsit is, but never could see
the Justice oft. If yon send your chill.
dren TO Mrs. HPorter. I suppose she will
teach and train them as t,oo, just as their
{ father feeds and clothes them az two.
You expect them both to be educated and
benefited by going to school; why, then,
shouldn't you be willing to pay for
"Well, 80 I would, if we could afford
It; but it is har22Skor US to make both
ends meet and ,1sa{1 ,07s it is our duty to
use the strictest economy. The children
must get q good education, for it's the
only thing we can give them"
'.Yoh think. then, it is the most ualua-
Ole thing you can give themP"
'Uertainly, T DO" A
And yet'you think it should not be
I s::.Wsll, Tn willing to pay a reasonable
not so sure ;of that, child.',
..'Why, Aunt Dorothy, do you doubt
mo, Susan; but L think you don't
understand what you are talking about.
I Tell me now; why you have been send
ing Mary and Nettie to Miss Nicholson
them away?'' @bi. ai Md
"Wcll, I sent them Rrst because she
came TO see me, in the most friendly way,
and asked me to do so, and offered to
take the ts0o at the same price that Mrs.
Porter would have charged me for one."
what did you know Of her rs q
swell, I judged from her conversation
That she was we'll educated, and I knew
that her school was filing up rapidly.
80 supposed that the people who lived
here must have confidence in her nbili-
ty." II.
''And yet it seems you were not infu-
enoed Chiefly BY that consideration"
'':No. to tell you the truth, Auntie,
she seemed 80 anxious to have the chill
drsn. that didn't know how to refuse.
and then the, terms suited our means. /
thonght, too, it wouldn't make much
difference whether the children were
With very superior teacher or not, for
the next two or three years."
"Ah, that is just where you made
great mistake. +" :,
a4s", well, Aunt. It's done now, and it
can't be helped"
$50 on, child, and tell me why YOU
removed the girls. y
g,lsifi WELL you know Mias Nicholson got
such large sohool that people began to
complain after while, and to say that
she did not do justice to the children.
1t was hinted to her, too, that she ought
to employ an assistant
have done"
d "lsut, Aunt, she could not afford it.
for her rates Of tuition were so low: and
go she said to those who talked with her
abont it." .'o..
vi a"And did no one think it would be
& reasonable to encourage her to raise her