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to be very carefully thought out, or the
result will be far from satisfactory. There
arc three, or perhaps four. forms which
it may take-the resident governess, the
daily governess, thef morning governess
and the teaching b va mother or eden sis3
ter. Very rarely does the last prove a
success, and one hours lesson every day
is sufficient. Mothers have so much to
teach in other way that book learning
into he bargain become a great strain
both to instructors and instructed. But
in the transition stage from nursery to
school room just a very few lessons, and
those made as bright and pleasant as
possible, with motehr every morning are
a great advantage in a family where econ
omy has to be studied, and where there is
a great difference in the ages of children;
for a governess who is competent to teach
girls of fourteen and over can hardly be
expected to take interest In the little ones
who do not know how to spell words. of
three letters. The alphabet may be learn
ed in the nursery with bricks and picture
books, and the mother who makes up her
mind to begin the education Of her chill
dren herself will do well to study the kim
dergarten system, which is decidedly the
best.
But in cases where, for momentary rea-
sons, a governess is an impossibility, the
mother must make up her mind to devote
from 10 till 1880 every morning to teach
ing. do not pretend to say this will not
be a terrible tie, but every right-thinking
woman will far ather endure it than al
low her children to grow up anyhow.
There must be a plan of lessons drawn up,
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of cardboard, marked with the days OF
| the week in perpendicular divisions. On
| the margin down the left side should pc
marked and ivided into half hours, from
10 to 1890, and horizontal lines drawn
straight across, so that the plan
a chess board.
BY these means both pupils and teach
ers will know exactly what will be the
work every day. AS a sample, | will take
two days, which would be as follows
Monday. 10. Scripture, history; 1885,
writing and tables, Il, French; ll:2o, arith-
metic; u, music. Tuesday, 10. English
history; 1880, spelling and dictation; In
arithmetic, I:30. geography, u, music. On
Saturday, instead of lessons as usual,
needlework could be done from 10 to H.
| or a little after, and the rest Of the time
| could be devoted to learning Sunday and
Monday lessons. so that the afternoon Is
left absolutely free. One short music les
| son every day is far better than a longer
one twice a week. An hour in the after
noon must always be set aside for study,
half an hour for preparing the morroW's
lessons. and half an o for plano
practice. This makes three and a half
hours every day given up to study, and 1t
seems but a small time, yet it is wonder
| full what can be accomplished in It. a
novelist who always writes steadily for
two hours a day only will turn out an
amazing amount of work in a year.
The mother must arrange that those
! two and a half hours in the morning are
never interrupted. 1t will necessitate an
earIv breakfast to enable her to get
| through her breakfast duties before ten,
| and she must make 1t a law that she sees
no visitors during school hours. II friends
| are STAYING in town they must under
| stand that they will be left to their own
| devices during school time, but then there
| are always the summer and winter holi-
| DAYS when she win be quite free!
| -.
The harem in which we spent a couple
| of DAYS stood a few miles out OF Cairo,
in the centre of a wall surrounded gar
den, planted with date palms, olive trees.
orange groves with melon and gourd
| beds running among them, says a travel
| Ter who lately returned. On arriving at
the harem garden we were admitted INTO
| its paradise of shade and rest by a heavy
| doorway and a venerable old ~potentate,
who headed our procession on an ass,
| and-at this juncture our body guard
abandoned us. remaining without the
walls while we were left to make our
way alone towardd the group of women
whom we saw approaching by the stone,
| tagged walk that led to the house. They
| were evidently the wives of our friend
| whose invitation to visit the harem had
given us an opportunity of satisfying In a
| slight degree the interest we had long felt
in private os to private life in Eastern
countries.
The ladies were dressed in loose gowns
or figured cotton, red and yellow shoes,
without heels. and scarfs of all colors.
| Some Of the younger ones were hand
some. being not much rowne in the
! fave than those Of Spanish origin, while
| their marelously erect< figures gave
| them an appearanceof great dignity.
one OF the ldUltS p4 CSChts
name "a niece Of the Turks. who had
been born IN Constantinople. was much
| more highly educated than the others
and able to talk French, and when pre-
liminary greetings were over we follow
ed her an dour new friends through an
! archway in to a square court whence we
| proceeded on a tour of inspection through
many large rooms on the ground floor,
all of which were empty except the in
nermost chambers.
On seeing our interest in their GUS
/ toms they became very friendly and al
| lowed us to examine their ornaments,
| generally necklets made Of gold xequins
| strung together, and bracelets worn
much larger and heavier than it is or
| binary to see in our country. Mira,
our interpreter, told us that she was
| engaged to be married to her cousin
Arten. her uncle's son. and showed us
a ring that he had given her. 1t was
a large, dull red stone In the shape of
a cartouche, worn by her on her first
| finger. and it bore the inscription WRIT
ten in Persian characters:-There Is a
flower in the garedn Of Arten, and her
| name Is Mira" 81
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