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work, and were consequently unable to give that attention to their 

 infants which their condition required. M. Dollfus resolved that 

 these women should be kept on full wages not only during their con- 

 finement, but for six weeks after, without doing any work whatever, 

 except — and this was an indispensable condition — taking care of their 

 children. The success of the experiment having been proved bj 

 the decline in the mortality from forty to twenty-five per cent in the 

 course of four years." 



Hear another extract, and I have done : 



Ignorance in Italy. 



" It is proved that, out of the 21,Y77,334 Italians united under the 

 sceptre of Victor Emanuel, 16,999,701 do not know their lettei-s, 

 while of the remainder, 893,288 can barely read ; thus the number 

 of more or less educated individuals is reduced to 2,623,605 males, 

 and 1,260,640 females. These figures will astonish us less when we 

 learn that in 1863 there were but 29,422 schools, either public or 

 private, frequented by 1,109,224 scholars ; and 255 gymnasiums, aa 

 the colleges where students are prepared for the universities are 

 called. Two hundred and nine communities do not possess a single 

 school, either public or private. In 1859, the government of Italy, 

 including Austria, spent annually but eight millions of francs for 

 popular education." 



Now, ladies and gentlemen, do you want to see such cheapness in 

 America ? I trow not. With such cheapness, American manufac- 

 turers could make goods cheaper than a foreign manufacturer could. 

 But here wages are paid which enables a man to keep his wife at 

 home to nurse the innocents -such as are elsewhere slaughtered, and 

 to send the children of tender years to school, instead of to the factory. 

 •Of such beneficent results we think the people will say Amen. 



