A YOUNG LADY'S APPEAL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 365, 25 June 1877, Page 2

A YOUNG LADY'S APPEAL.

TO TII.II EJJJTOU OK Tll li I'.VION'I NO M ATI.. Dk.vuMk. Eiutoii,-- Woul 1 you be kind enough to use your iniluenee with the Rector or Committee of the Cram mar School to gut our holidays extended to throe weeks or a mouth. We have been toiling away at our lessons, and sitting up at nights when wo ought to have been in hod," writing essays, learning geography, Milton, physics, itc., Ac., until we are almost crazed, and sadly need physics in the shape of exercise and pure air. Mr. Editor, if you succeed, Mary, Hannah, Anne Maria, and myself will ever bless you.—l remain, yours truly, Julia. Oamaru, June 2 j. [Out of respect to "Julia,"—for, to confess the truth, we are a little susceptible to the intluencj of the fair sex and uo(a from any deference to her opinion, W'j have ins rted the above letter, are slightly experienced in such matters, aliil tlie conclusion we have come to is that scho-

igtic exercises not only expand the inteliir but keep the little dears out of misjief. It must not, however, be understood jat y>'& . are averse to holidays; on the Diitnuy, we are advocates for them ; but s do think that the school an, horit'es art e ry fair judjes of whit. the duration lould be of such recreative periods. ]S r c uiibt " Julia" has applied herself !o hei :S son3 in a manner that does her infinite -..(lit, and it is not improbable that hei (ulth may have suffered in consequence at others may have been as studious ith. impunity. We feel sure that oni jr eorrepondent will see the impropriety [lengthening out the present mid-wintei ulidays merely because she feels won: it with menial exercise. The mairiiy of her fellow-scholars are, perhaps. i'e and anxious to resume their scholastic iiles as soon an possible. It would be [iter-thai; "Julia" should take a holiday i her own account. At the same time we ou'd: fully appreciate the blessings ol ary, Hannah, and Anne Maria, and ost that they will not be withheld on ■count of our little difference of opinion. .£O. E. M.]