A SOCIAL PROBLEM.
The habit of reverence is to be acquired not by book learning, but by a contagion of the spirit for which in. cases no institution can supply an adequate substitute, as the much decried irreverence of too many colonial children abundantly testifies. Correct the home training and Sir John Madden’s proposal of a curfew bell to take children, and especially girls, off the streets at a certain hour might prove a valuable supplement, hut the curfew alone will not go far.—“ Evening Post.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2607, 15 September 1909, Page 7
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86A SOCIAL PROBLEM. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2607, 15 September 1909, Page 7
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