EXCHANGE OF CHILDREN.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 168, 21 July 1908, Page 2

EXCHANGE OF CHILDREN.

Among the new education schemes m Europe is the exdbange-of-children system. The plan is to have a boy or a girl from a French family sent to Germany or England, where he or she becomes *a member of a German or an English family, the hitter m return sending a child to France, who is taken m charge by the parents of the French child. Each family pays the travelling expenses of its own child,, and keepj it clotlied. NotMng is paid for bed or board on either side. The society which originated the scheme pays all expenses of finding -consenting families, of negotiating tbe exchange, and of safeguarding the children m transit. The main purpose of these exchanges is: set forth as being the reciprocal cuii'vation of knowledge bf foreign tongues. Tlien every exchanged child, it is assumed, will take home a genial impression of ito foreign sojourn, and will always have a. kindly feeling for its iicsts. By far the greater number of exchanges are for the school vacation season only. The probaible spread of the system is indicated by the faot* that the society received altogether 3,500 tentative proposals for exchanges during last year. Altogether 800 exchanges have been negotiated since the society started.