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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...against defective drains and bad smells, smoky chimneys and the noise of neighbours, damp walls and leaky roofs, draughty doors and rattling windows, mould, dry rot, and all the special evils of cheap, modern, speculative-built workmen's dwellings. CHAPTER XVII. More About The Assoc1ated Homes. ENTERING the social palace again by the main central entrance, we note the system by which each tenant can be readily found if a friend comes to call. Here at the doorway is a list of all the lodgments by number, and the names of the tenants are placed opposite their numbers. As the whole place is lit up all night by gas, you can find the friend you come to visit late without knocking up half-a-dozen of his neighbours to tell you where he lives. Just inside we find another notice-board, covered with names and figures. Ah! this is a very different affair. It is the children's school-prize list, placed thus conspicuously where every one, young and old, can see it as they pass in and out. A good place on this honour list thus becomes a kind of fame for children to aspire to. But why are there two columns of figures instead of one, and why do the figures often differ which are placed opposite a child's name? "Oh!" explains Madame Marie, "that is an idea The Children's Honour List. 127 we have carried out to encourage goodness and amiability as well as cleverness. Very often a child secures a first, second, or third position in class by mere qualities of head. So we let the children in a class vote positions of honour themselves to those whom they like the most amongst their little colleagues. Thus the qualities of heart which make a child beloved by its playmates have also their reward. The figures in the first column are the prize positions as awarded by ...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1151173134
- ISBN 13 9781151173133
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages70
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