{"id":148,"date":"2020-03-26T17:07:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T17:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/?page_id=148"},"modified":"2021-07-12T19:31:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T19:31:17","slug":"602-household-words-conducted-by","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/household-words-2\/602-household-words-conducted-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Pg. 602"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Household<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

602 HOUSEHOLD WORDS. [Conducted by<\/p>\n\n\n\n

he stood on a ladder up among the\ngreen leaves working at the roof of the new smith\u2019s shop, thinks it was a\nsudden temptation that was too much for the boy; the boy had done very well\nindeed before; he had no reason to complain of the boy at all; thought very\nwell of him. We had a bright idea that it might be a knife with a handle full\nof extraor\u00addinary temptations\u2014corkscrews, boot-hooks, picks, gimlets, punches,\nand so forth; but the carpenter said (unwillingly, as a good-natured man who\nperceived our drift) No, it<\/p>\n\n\n\n

was just a common knife! This is a good-looking\nculprit, considered likely to reform. Seems to have a manly sort of repentance\nbreaking out in him, which promises well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dinner-time now; the boys fare\nat their tables; and it is suet-pudding day. One boy says grace, and all the\nboys eat pudding, except those of the fourth and fifth classes, who eat\nrespectively, bread and cheese, and bread. The allowance of pudding is suited\nto<\/p>\n\n\n\n

an agricultural appetite. The puddings are baked like\nbread, in tins; so that there is a crust all round, and the juvenile taste runs\nupon scooping out the pudding first, and then eating its shell. Some rejoice in\ntheir privilege of treacle. Class the Fifth is not happy in a taste for bread.\nOne little fellow has spilt water on the table and has deposited his bread in it, in order to complain that it is wet. His neighbour\ncomplains that the school\u00admaster who teaches him, like his companions, for two\nhours daily, has a \u201cspite again him.\u201d We inspect the register of offences. The\ncolumn headed disorder, is the one that is most filled. Order is necessary,\nalthough we are not thunderstruck at finding that the boys in this hot weather\nare found in the pond at unseasonable hours; and that, be\u00adcoming restless at\nnight, they will get out of bed and walk about, to the distress of their\ncompanions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remembering that every one of\nthese boys has been walled in a prison, for which he qualified through scenes\nof filth and vice, it is a fact most honorable to the chaplain and\ndemonstrative of his real influence over them, that the offence of profanity\nand bad language occurs, throughout the whole community of more than a hundred\nboys, only about three or four times in a week. The trust reposed by the boys\nin their chief guide, is manifest in the frank looks with which he has been met\nthroughout the morning, and the free and frequent\ncommuni\u00adcation which the children have evidently claimed, whenever they have\nhad anything to ask or tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dinner is soon over and all\nstand up. After a pause, during which perfect silence is established, grace is\nsaid. The schoolmaster then strikes his tuning-fork and leads in the doxology.\nThere is a little organ in the well-appointed chapel, and every opportunity is taken\nof introducing music into the routine of the school. For our especial pleasure,\nthe tuning-fork is again put in requisition, and the juvenile offenders against\nlaw, with reve\u00adrent (though, of course, here and there un\u00adpromising) faces, and\nwith good voices, sing a hymn in praise of faith and kindness one towards\nanother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The singing of the boys remained\nas melody upon our minds after we had left the Farm, and wandered out again\ninto the sunny ways. Returning by new paths, we dived into the coolness of a\nnarrow sheltered lane, through which a brook was flowing. A hen with her young\nbrood fluttered before us. The chickens in dismay, the hen in wrath and fear,\ncovering the retreat of her children, labouring to find for them a safe path\nout of the way of evil\u2014for as evil we were obviously regarded \u2014sped down the\nnarrow lane the faster as we made haste to get by, and relieve them of the\ncause of terror. At last the mother lodged her whole brood in a hole by the way\u00adside,\nand stood forward menacing death to all the powers that would do them harm. We\nthought that if Britannia had a little of the hen in her, and took but half as\nmuch care of her brood of unprotected young, there would not be so many crushed\nboys to restore to wholeness\u2014so many fallen girls to raise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our honorable friend! The system\nmust be devised, the administrators must be reared, the preventible young\ncriminals must be pre\u00advented, the State must put its Industrial and Farm\nSchools first, and its prisons last\u2014and to this complexion you must come. You\nmay put the time off a little, and destroy (not irresponsibly) a few odd\nthousands of im\u00admortal souls in the meantime; but, the change must come. It\nwere better for you, and the whole constituent body of Verbosity, to come to it\nwith a good grace; for the thing itself is as sure as Death, our honorable\nfriend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE MERRY MEN OF CAIRO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are two incontrovertible\ntruths, that Allah (whose name be exalted) is Allah,\u201d and that \u201cCairo is the\nQueen of Cities.\u201d Franks say that Marsiglia, and Londra, and Parigi, are larger\nand finer; but by one argument we confound them. How comes it that they\nundertake a journey of many months to see our city, if it be inferior in\nanything to the places they come from? May such liars be condemned to eternal\nfire; and may Cairo never cease to assert its supremacy, and con\u00adtinue to be\nwhat its name imports, Al Kahira, the Conqueror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cairo contains the largest and\nthe oldest mosques, the most elegant fountains, the richest bazaars, the most\nspacious wakalahs, the most pious men, and the most lovely women, in the world.\nIts excellences are indeed ten thousand\u2014five \nthousand physical, and five thousand moral; and it has been calculated\nthat to describe each excellence with due detail, would require three thousand
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