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 Alice de V. writes: 'Surely if the letters upon chastising children are real, they cannot be written by ladies, but must come from those who are "born in the garret—in the kitchen bred," "whose 'usbands keep 'orses, and 'unt the 'ounds three times hevery week." No wonder we hear such things of the modern girl when there are such mammas in the world! Why do they not civilize themselves, correct their own evil dispositions and set a good example to their children, instead of chastising them for being small editions of their coarse-minded mammas? I am confident that whipping girls degrades them and takes away every feeling of self-respect and modesty. I think the letter from A Schoolmistress conclusively proves this.'

A Musicmaster writes: 'I have read the correspondence relating to the personal chastisement of young ladies in your pages with great interest; and as your correspondent who signs himself Rector seems to doubt its application, I just write a few lines from my own personal observation to convince him to the contrary. I am a teacher of music in five schools conducted by ladies,