[281]. Sir W. Temple.
[282]. Goldsmith’s Essays.
[283]. Geoffry Hamlyn. By H. Kingsley.
[284]. Proverbs, xx. 29.
[285]. “I would have given him, Captain Fleming, had he been my son,” quoth old Pearson the elder, “such a good sound drubbing as he never would have forgotten—never!”
“Pooh! pooh! my good sir. Don’t tell me. Never saw flogging in the navy do good. Kept down brutes; never made a man yet.”—Dr. Norman Macleod in Good Words, May, 1861.
[286]. The Birmingham Journal.
[287]. A Woman’s Thoughts about Women.
[288]. If a girl has an abundance of good nourishment, the school-mistress must, of course, be remunerated for the necessary and costly expense; and how this can be done on the paltry sum charged at cheap boarding-schools? It is utterly impossible! The school-mistress will live, even if the girls be half-starved. And what are we to expect from poor and insufficient nourishment to a fast-growing girl, and at the time of life, remember, when she requires an extra quantity of good sustaining, supporting food? A poor girl, from such treatment, becomes either consumptive or broken down in constitution, and from which she never recovers, but drags out a miserable existence. A cheap boarding-school is dear at any price.
[289]. A horse-hair mattress should always be preferred to a feather bed. It is not only better for the health, but it improves the figure.