every girl has her tafk fet. This rule ex- 
tends net only to wool-{pinning, but to 
the whole of her various employments ; 
and as an incouragement to induttry, and 
that fome idea of property may be gained, 
every girl who completes her tafk, 1s en- 
titled to a weekly reward, from one 
farthing to twopence, and the money fo 
earned, is paid her every Thuriday, a 
regular account being kept, and the mo- 
ney depofited in 2 box, divided into forty 
eells, in which the name of every girl is 
written. This money is abfolutely her 
own, liable, however, to the deduction 
ef torfeits for mifbehaviour. The fame 
lady, who has for many years fuperin- 
tended the howfe-keeping department, and 
proportioned the taf, alfo diftributes the 
rewards; and it is not much to fay, that 
the judgment and impartiality with which 
this important part of the plan is ex- 
ecuted, cannot be exceeded. 
The ladies who fuperintend the {chool, 
have 2 general mecting four times ina 
year, when all the various books, &c. are 
infpeted, and fuch new laws propofed, 
or old ones altered, as may have been 
found expedient. ~ - 
When the girls leave the fchool, they 
are hired as fervants, for wages, inftead 
of being bound apprentice for meat and 
¢foaths. 
It is now fourteen years that the fchool 
has been condu&ted upon the plan above 
déeferibed. At firit, while the elder girls 
of the eriginal fet remained, the good ef- 
feéts fince refulting were not very obferv- 
bi This was mortifying, but couid 
excite no furprife in any one who had feen 
the ftate they were-in before the new re- 
gulations. I have now by’ mea lift of 
the names of the girls then in the fchool, 
14 
ADE. 
to which is attached the charaéter given. 
ef every particular girl by the matter and 
miftrefs who at that time had the ma- 
nagement of it, and out of the whole num- 
ber, there were but four, of whofe beha- 
Viour and difpofition they did not fpeak in 
the mo# difadvantageous terms’; and their 
ignorance was inconceivable. As that 
fet however left the {chool, the good ef- 
fe&ts have, from time to time, become 
more apparent; and, for fome years paft, 
the ladies have had the fatisfaction of {ee- 
ing every expectation realized which they 
could reafonably have formed refpecting 
the fuccefs of fwch an inftitution. The 
children in general aie healthy, and after 
leaving the fchool have turned out well ; 
and the conduct of many individuals ha 
been remarkably good. It may go fome- 
thing towards'a proof of this, that “or 
S Mrs. Cappe on Charity Schools. 
fomé time the two affiftant miftreffes hare 
been regularly taken from among the girls 
themielves. One of them, at prefent, has 
ferved in that capacity (firft in the wool- 
room, and now as teacher of fewing, 
knitting, reading, &c.) eight years; and 
moreover, that the girls are in fuch re- 
que, as fervants, that they are generally 
engaged fome months before they leave 
the {chool, and many of them are at this” 
time living in very refpeftable familtes ; 
Some alfo have married, and behave very 
well. One defe&t, as was obferved ina 
former paper, unavoidably adheres to the 
nature of the inftitution. A poor girl 
educated in a {chool where her victuals, 
cloaths, &c. are regularly provided, can- 
not have gained that knowledge of the 
common events of life, and of the diff- 
culties to which, in her progrefs through 
it, fhe will probably be fubje&t, which it 
were defirable that fhe fhould have gained ; 
if, however, the is fo fortunate’as to 
be hired by a miftrefs who is aware of 
this circumftance, and attentive to it, the 
difadvantage may be overcome. To this 
defe&t it was principally attributed, that 
many had, from time to time, ceafed to 
continue members of the Friendly Society, 
partly inftituted on their account, of 
which an outline has been already given. 
It was, however, then obferved, that thefe 
defeGtions were fewer every year. And 
I muft now add, that we have reafon to 
hope well of the conduct of the greater 
part even of thefé upon the whole; and 
moreover, that the benefits intended by 
the inftitution have not been intirely loft, 
even in refpeét to them, as the greater 
part have received protection and aflift- 
ance for the firft two or three years after 
they had left the {chool, the period at 
which, more than any other, fuch pro- 
tection and affiftance is efpecially import- 
ant to them. 
It now merely remains to be mentioned, 
that, in point of expence, the’ new plan 
has not exceeded the demands of the old. 
This it were eafy to fhew, by. comparing 
the two together, but this would lead to 
a detail which would exceed the limits to 
which I muft confine myfelf. 
In a future paper, Mr. Editor, if you 
and your readers are not weary of fuch 
fort of fubjeéts, it is my intention to fend 
you fome account of a {chool of indufry 
inftituted here, in which the girls con- 
tinue te live at home with their friends ; 
alfo of the kind of books which I fhould 
beg leave to recommend. In the mean 
time, I remain, fir, your obedient fervant, 
Yerk, Mayt, 1798 CATH. pes 
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