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years of age, and instructs them according to 

 their capacities. The adults, thanks to M. Ober- 

 lin, have no furtlier moral wants ; but there are 

 yet some, who in sickness or old age have need 

 of physical aid. Louise Scheppler watches over 

 them, carries them broth, medicine, in short, 

 every thing, not forgetting pecuniary succour. 

 She has founded and regulated a sort of Mont 

 de Pi6t6 *, of a peculiar kind, which would be an 

 admirable institution elsewdiere, if it could be 

 multiplied like the infant schools ; for it is 

 among the very small number of those which 

 merit the name given to them, for money is 

 there lent without interest and without securities. 

 When M. Oberlin died, he, by will, left Louise 

 Scheppler to his children ; the simple words of 

 a dying master may be heard with interest, and 

 will be more eloquent than any thing we can 

 add : — 'I leave my faithful nurse to you, my 

 dear children, she who has reared you, the in- 

 defatigable Louise Scheppler ; to you also she 

 has been a careful nurse, to you a faithful mo- 



* The Mont de Piete of Paris, managed by a company of 

 individuals, was first established on the same principle as that 

 of Louise Scheppler, but is now the general establishment for 

 pawning, to which all the minor pawnbrokers of that city 

 belong. 



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