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small & that small number, should be placed on the poor farm which is needed in every district. There the men & women may do something for their own support, but to employ them in Our Industrial Schools & to keep up schools in that way will be very bad policy

If these views are correct, then the objects to be aimed at in our Industrial Schools, are to teach sewing, cutting, knitting, washing & ironing, and to make some amount of work necessary before giving away clothing or other articles.

How long it will be necessary for a woman to attend an Industrial School, to be properly instructed will depend upon her quickness to learn &c. but it seems to me a month