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should be placed [[strikethrough]] on a p [[/strikethrough]] on the poor farm which is needed in every district. There the men & the women may do something to aid in 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, knitting, washing & Ironing, and to make some amount of work [[strikethrough]] the grow [[/strikethrough]] necessary before clothing or other articles are given.

How long it will be necessary [[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]] a woman to attend [[strikethrough]] These objects may be at [[/strikethrough]] an In School to be properly instructed [[strikethrough]] in what is taught [[/strikethrough]] will depend upon her quickness to learn & other things, but it seems to us that a month is long enough, & that to keep the same person or class for a long time, is to commit a very great mistake, and is an attempt to furnish employment which is not a legitimate object of the Industrial School except to a very limited extent.