turnery, the making
of blocks and watches, weaving, shoemaking, or any other useful trade
or mystery that the school is capable of teaching; and the girls to be
taught and instructed in spinning of flax and wool, and knitting of
gloves and stockings, sewing and making of all sorts of useful
needlework, and the making of straw-work, as hats, baskets, etc., or
any other useful art or mystery that the school is capable of
teaching.

"3. That the scholars be kept in the morning two hours, at
reading, writing, book-keeping, etc., and the other two hours at
work in that art, mystery, or trade that he or she _most
delighteth in_, and then let them have two hours to dine and for
recreation; and in the afternoon, two hours at reading, writing,
etc., and the other two hours at work at their several
imployments."

Budd quotes from a book by Andrew Yarenton an account of the
spinning-schools in Germany, as follows: "In all towns there are
schools for little girls, from six years old and upwards, to teach
them to spin, and to bring their tender fingers by degrees to spin
very fine; their wheels go all by the foot, made to go with much ease,
whereby the action or motion is very easie and delightful. The way,
method, rule, and order how they are governed is, 1st. There is a
large room, and in the middle thereof a little box like a pulpit.
2ndly, There are benches built around about the room, as they are in
playhouses; upon the benches sit about two hundred children spinning,
and in the box in the middle of the room sits the grand mistress, with
a long white wand in her hand," with which she designates the idle for
punishment.

"They raise their children as they spin finer to the higher
benches. 2d. They sort and size all the threds, so that they can
apply them to make equal cloths; and after a young maid has been
three years in the spinning-school, that is taken in at six, and
then continues until nine years, she will get eight pence the
day, and, in these parts I speak of, a man that has most
children lives best."

Eight pence a day at that time was good wages for an artisan.

Thos. Budd was more than two hundred years ahead of the teachers of
America, for they are just beginning to introduce Industrial
Education, and they have not reached up to this idea of making the
work of pupils pay their expenses, which Budd proposed, and which Rich
realized.

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