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it will be admitted that the young establishment is in good hands, 

 and that we have a right to expect great results from it. "We rf joice 

 in it for the sake of our English-speaking friends ; and I cordially 

 congratulate the municipal council of Compton on its enterprising 

 spirit, and the good example it is setting to the province at large. 



So much for our schools, at least for the present, for I am sure that 

 if they are overcrowded, the House will hasten to aid in the establish- 

 ment of others. 



Shall I say a word on the 



Schools of Industry and of Horticulture for Girls. 



The mothers of our robust and intelligent population have al- 

 ways been renowned for their adroitness, the dexterity of their fin- 

 ■ gers, and their skill in the management of the garden, whence comes 

 more than one pleasant offering to the master of the house. We all 

 admire, too, the taste with which she adorns her home, thus making 

 it more attractive to the children. Shall we allow all these charming 

 industries of the fireside, which occupy so equally and profitably the 

 i'ountry life, gathering the family together, concentrating it, full of 

 afFectiou, to the great benefit of the whole — shall we allow these, I 

 say, to perish ? 



I enjoy the acquaintance of an excellent la'-.y, a scion of one of 

 our old families, the ornament of society from the good quali- 

 ties of her mind and her heart, the joy of her family in which she can 

 count the grandchildren of her children ; skilful among all. no one 

 ever excelled her in the little industries of the home and in the 

 management of her brilliant flower garden. Now that her poor eyes 

 are beginning to shun the light, her nimble fingers, working for the 

 poor, still furnish her with an agreeable occupation, while she 

 amusingly narrates rales of former days. 



Such were our mothers ; such we must wish our wives to be. 



ROBERVAL AND St. BeNOIT. 



If we read the programme of the School at. Roberva/, Saguenay, kept 

 by the R.R. Ladies of the Ursuline order, and of the St. Benoit school, 

 Two-Mountains, kept by the 11. R. Gray Sisters ; if we visit their 

 establishments, we shall soon be convinced of the good they are likely 

 to do in our province. 



