Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-11-21

COMPULSORY EDUC the Clerkan-
u police court, a poor woman named Louisa
Maylon was summoned before Mr. COUke, the
nagistFa:e, for neglectin2 TO send Ter son, aged
Iine, to school. There vas no mistake As TO
HTs. MsylOn's guilt-indeed, she admitted it,
md her statement is inter esting, ~ Illustrating
the cOGtrsriness of the poor when they are only
asked 10 stsrye themselves and their families
for great public benefit. Mrs. MaylOn has,
che says. "four children to support out Of her
earnings as char woman. She Is very deSti-
tute. and, to enable her to get bread for her
children, she is compelled to keep the little boy
in question at home 70 nurse the baby. She has
no wish to defy the school board authorities, and
therefore sends her children to school as often
as she can; but, she asks, what is she to do?
She is aware, perhaps no one better, that ed
ucatiOn is good for her children; bat can she
see them starve simply to stop at home her
self ard send them 70 school? IL she
could work and did not, thereby allowing her
children to starve, she would be punished;
therefore she chooses VIII at she considers to be
the lesser evil, and keeps one of her children at
home TO look after the infant while she goes ont
TO work to get the family food" Such is Mrs
IaylOn's story, and so plausibly did she put tue
case that the magistrate actually refused to
make an order. "The defendant was he re-
marked, "now in state of squalor, and her ap-
pearance, her very dress, denOting that she
must have suffered great distress. 1t was not
reasonable to ask him to fine a woman like the
defendant because she kepts child of nine years
OF age at heme while she went abroad to seek
bread for her family" Mr.. Cooke further in
timated that il the school board wanted him to
make an order, they must 60 to the court of
Queens bench for mandamus to compel him,
This is all very well; but how are we ever to
make education popular with the poor unless
We send people like Mrs. Msylon to prison?
STRANGE ADVENTURE OF Two CHILDREN
At an inquest held on Thursday by the Glou-
cestershire county coroner "a Bristol CORES
pODdent writes) there was related an extraor-
binary adventure on the part of two little boys,
one three and the other six years of age the
children of parents living in Bristol. The
younger child was sent into the streets to
play in the afternoon; the elder one took his
hoop and ran away with it. The little boy
followed the other over Ashley Hill and round
20 HoItieid, distance OF about three miles
Here the children lost themselves, and
darkness coming on they went into
potato field and prepared their bed in
one of the burrows. Early next morning
man engaged TO dig potatoes in this field
found the two children lying asleep. The elder
had on only his shirt and socks, and was be-
numbed with cold. Tho little one explained
that, finding the ground cold and vet, his COM
panion stripped himself so as to have a COM
Portable bed, aud wanted the younger boy to
follow his example, but he replied that he
would not, because "he wanted to go home TO
his mamma" The exposure proved too much
for the elder bov (the child OF a respectable
widow, who died from congestion of the lungs
and brain short time after his discovery. The
younger child did not appear TO have suffered
at all from his strange adyenture.-PdH Mall
Gazette.