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whose conibined property aggregates at a 

 vahte of over $60.000 (gold). 



Alongside of tliese boys' schools there 

 Iias grown up a network of small girls' 

 schools, There is not, as yet, any great 

 demand for feniale education, but that 

 there should be as mueh as there is, must 

 be marked to the credit of tlie aspiring 

 Chinese and Tamils of Malaysia. The girls' 

 schools are necessarily not self-supporting. 

 When the desire for the education of 

 women grows as keen as it is for men, 

 there will be time enough to cxpcct the 

 schools to pay their own way. Meanwhile 

 it has only been bv most earnest and in- 

 telligent erTort that a chain of schools has 

 been created, in which about one thousand 

 girls are being educated each year. Per- 

 haps the most interesting of these is one 

 recently fotuuled in Malacca by Mrs. Shel- 

 labear and Miss Pugh. What gives it pe- 

 ciiliar interest is this. The childrcn are 

 taught to read the Romanized Baba Malay, 

 and not the English or the Arabic writing. 

 The consequence \s that as soon as they 

 learn a few Roman letters they are able to 

 read a Ianguage which they spcak in their 

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