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72 corsets; no slipping off the clothes from the shoulders, and resting on the arms; no contraction in any part of the whole costume, but absolute freedom of action for every organ and muscle.

With so many commands not to do, the gentle reader will naturally ask what she is to do, in order that her charge may be healthy and accom­plished. To this we reply, that she must always adapt both teaching, exercise, and discipline to the nature and constitution of the child, that is, to the especial requirements of that particular child to which she may have to direct attention. In the first place, the school seats must be so constructed as to afford support to the back whenever the pupil needs to recline backwards. The seat and back also should be covered with cloth, and stuffed so as to render them comfortable, and the pupils be allowed to rest occasionally. The teacher must always bear in mind that her object is to make her pupils proficient, and she cannot do this except their studies be made delightful to them. When the tuition is irksome it will always be shunned, and hated when it cannot be avoided. It is possible, we know, to drill a human being into a routine of mechanical movements, mental as well as bodily; but this is not education in the