ABSTRACT
Mrs. WEBSTER moved the adoption of the Report. She called upon the Meeting to compare last year's Report with this, especially as regarded Type-writing, in which there was a remarkable advH.Dce. She-thanked the Society for pointing out the mistake made by parents in not training their girls as they do their boys. 'fhe same thing is found in all classes of society, in the lower middle-class as well as in the upper classes. They should do away with the idea of a woman marrying by way of a profession. Would parents do with their boys as they do with their girls 1 Women are doubtless clever enough, but they are not so much cleverer than men that they can take up a profession without training of any kind! People sometimes said women could do without training, instancing George Elliot and Mrs. Browning, and others, but it is absurd to judge by such exceptional cases. You would not tell a boy that he must be a Thackeray or a Millais I She complained that girls in the lower and middle schools were not trained to d(). She was surprised to hear that there was so good an opening for womenclerks, when the market was said to be over-stocked with boys. But it was not an unfavourable symptom, as harm was done to the country by the pick of working-
class boys being turned into clerks, instead of being taught that manual work is honourable. She echoed the words of the Report with regard to Miss Lewin.
