THE EUROPEAN WAY.
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private ones; and in these there is no severe pressure brought to bear on the pupils. . . . I must not be understood to argue from the health of the children of Nova Scotia, as contrasted with the lack of health among our children, that it is best to have no public schools ; only that it is better to have no public schools than to have such public schools as are now killing off our children. ... In Massachusetts, the mortality from diseases of the brain and nervous system is eleven per cent. In Nova Scotia it is only eight per cent.” *
It would be interesting and instructive to ascertain, if we could, the regimen of female education in Europe. The acknowledged and unmistakable differences between American and European girls and women —the delicate bloom, unnatural weakness, and premature decay of the former, contrasted with the bronzed complexion, developed form, and enduring force of the latter — are not ade-
* Bits of Talk. By H. H. Pp. 71-75.