Rural School Leaflet 



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A LETTER TO GIRLS AND BOYS 



Dear Girls and Boys: 



Often have I thought of the letter I would wTite to you in this January 

 leaflet, yet I am ha\ang hard work to begin now that it is time. Such a 

 lot of things are ttmibling over and over in my mind, that words on paper 

 cannot express them as I wish. Recently I have \dsited a number of 

 schools and talked with some of you face to face. These visits made 

 me wish that I could see you all, but I know that is impossible and I shall 

 have to try to write what I would say. 



Some of you are going to schools in small villages where there are several 

 teachers; others, to schools right out in the open country- where at this 

 time of year the wind is howling outside the windows and perhaps it is 

 sno-^ing. I hope you are neither too warm nor too cold. We cannot 

 work with our minds when our bodies are uncomfortable. Nowadays 

 we know about a type of stove for countr}^ schools that makes all parts 



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