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important step further in providing a substantial tea for his 
guests. Yet another service he rendered was to justify the visit 
of a Natural History and Philosophical Society to such an 
institution. As he put it, in thanking the company for a vote of 
thanks which the President had warmly proposed, they could 
study no more interesting natural history than that of boys and 
girls, while there was philosophy in the work of the Poor Law. 
He added an assurance that 1t certainly required a philosopher to 
remain a member of the Board of Guardians. Everyone agreed 
with Dr. Harrison that the ratepayers ought to make more use 
of the privilege of seeing the institutions they helped to maintain. 
Point had been given to this remark by a most interesting 
demonstration of the Schools’ methods. 
Mr. H. R. Spooner, the Superintendent, had shown 130 boys 
executing a dumb-bell drill with the precision of a machine, he 
had made the band boys play rattling marches, so that the 
visitors wanted no telling why regimental bandmasters were ever 
thirsting for Warren Farm instrumentalists; and he had led 
them through the admirable singing of harmonized hymns and 
other sacred music. The company had also seen where and how 
the boys washed, bathed, did their school work, and ate their 
nourishing food. By the way, no set of boys could do better 
‘credit to the table than these chubby little fellows. 
After tea the girls were seen performing a skipping drill 
under the keen but kindly eye of Mrs. Spooner, and there were 
the well-kept garden, the farm, and the open-air swimming bath 
to inspect, before a delighted company took farewell of the 
Schools and all within them. Mr. W. D. Peskett, the Vice- 
Chairman of the Committee, and Mr. H. Burfield, the Assistant 
Clerk to the Board, were among those present. 

SATURDAY, MAY 11rs, 1907. 
WALK FROM DYKE TO BRAMBER AND 
VISIT “TO CASELE. AND, CHURCH. 
