THE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1486, 14 November 1874, Page 2

THE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.

THE Sunday-school Union _~ none of its interest, but lL* lti°aW' continues to attract W and admiring spectaS'llol »« were flaht stirring the Wle «0 the children to a &__*£s"* fift dormant capabilities. Theli eit mi good in their particula 'ZaT&S ßs schools we believe haveSfa r ficial in giving more enlareeTl V? m°re C duties ; and in another S'SP youthful ingenuity and !ifigSs awaken the young miad to JJ** of the dignity of honert ia£» in tneir progressive infine^ 0'1!.-. «5 many of those social ,11 render homes for the destitute an? JH stitutions so necessary in tvl °^% Industrial pursuits and phvSS-^ \ necessary parts of educaS^f encouraged. We have someS^?^ that there is too much cramming?o?* in hese days, while the natural£Si manhood in other respects ™+„ ofH lected. Tbefatherof72C a ?S the young philosopher's head witt. ?^ ing him to sport with Mtarjft?** fields and m the open air ) hence 9 ?* naturally delicate, was sacrificed f H mind, it was so in the last el * Alexander Pope. In far back aS^ pbers lived in seclusion, and Big eminently christian virtue of cleareri paid little regard to honest ylT'^ was m after years that cleanliness _*__] of duty was conceived and practL those who saw life and its essential fflh a loftier and truer spirit, and from-* practical lives arose the idea of m J^ finement; and from Carlyle perils than froni any other man of the and past, the world has learned that tW true dignity in true labour. Old _\_l Herbert also taught this lesson yeaW1 one of his pleasant hymns. At the n day, there can be little doubt, therjS among the befer educated of'th e J?j simple refinement of manners and taX was never known before. Our graudmoty clocks and the pewter might havey brighter, and the floors nrght havsif "nicely sanded," according to m smith's description of the old Am tavern, but dependants were | servi'e in spidt, and the amount! labour wrung from them was slavi-i J cruel. Taste will follow on mental 3 artistic culture, and on an awakening old mind of women of tbe middle and \m cesses to the important t-uth thatdoj» knowledge and domestic duties are notine« patible with cultivation of intellect \ notice that among tbe varied contenting present industrial display in the Lorae^ Hall a very large proportion of thea&j, were made by girls, and are mostly d; useful character. We learn that in __$ quence of the great success which lmii tended the efforts of the committeetlutfe exhibition will be opened on Monday^ Tuesday next, at the usual hours,