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CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT. 



lu writing liis report, a certain school committee had only 

 this to say : "We refer you to last year's report." So we refer 

 you to former reports for much that we would say, had it not 

 already been said in the way of suggestion and appeal. 



We will, however, add a little to that, and we are glad to 

 report rather more favorably than last year. We can count 

 thirty-three contributors, — a gain of eight over last year, and 

 about half of these are Marshfield names, whereas only seven 

 of our last year's contributors were from our own town. The 

 number of articles was about the same, only three or four more. 



We saw stated in one of our papers giving an account of 

 the Fair, something to this effect : that our Children's Depart- 

 ment was actually done away with, or so merged in the other 

 departments that it was not distinguishable. 



Our Children's Department is not yet altogether a thing of the 

 past, but has a space allotted to it as heretofore, though it does 

 not occupy as much room as formerly. 



We think the children may get alittle encouragement from the 

 fact that their work is so well done that it cannot be distin- 

 guished from the work of the older people. However, the 

 space allowed this department should be in some way notice- 

 ably designated, so that there can be no mistake as to its 

 limits. 



We would call the attention of the children once more to 

 the fact that this department includes all under fifteen years of 

 age, and not Ji/teen and over. Please remember in future. 



In regard to the quality of the work, we think it was un- 

 usually well done this year, perhaps as a whole better than 

 ever before. 



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