They are the envy of the choir religious, and in the precincts of such religious houses children unconsciously learn the dignity of manual labour, and feel themselves honoured by having any share in it.

Such labour can be had for love, but not for money.
One word must be added before leaving the subject of the realities of life.

Worn time to time a rather emphatic school lifts up its voice in the name of plain speaking and asks for something beyond reality--for realism, for anticipated instruction on the duties and especially on the dangers of grown-up life.

It will be sufficient to suggest three points for consideration in this matter: (1) That these demands are not made by fathers and mothers, but appear to come from those whose interest in children is indirect and not immediately or personally responsible.

This may be supposed from the fact that they find fault with what is omitted, but do not give their personal experience of how the want may be supplied.