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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12481, 6 March 1909, Page 1

The Mikado of Japan includes among his retainers 3,0 physicians and 60 priests. ■',-'■ :• Says the Melbourne "Age" :— The world professes to 'be hungry for . knowledge. Specialists and experts are everywhere in demand. Booksare multiplied; and the very name of science is opotheosised — all these are signs that education is at a premium —that the schoolmaster is abrocd, and that his business should be flourishing. And yet we have all round /us seeming proofs to the contrary. Either people really do not value education to the ... degree that they pretend, or else the • supply of teachers is so overdone that the work is at a discount. . Take as an example the following advertisement, cut at random out of the scholastic columns of the daily paper :— "Governess wanted, one pupil, 3 houfs morning, English, Latin, JTrer.cb, piano, violin, drawing, painting ; 7s Cd week. Latin, P. 0., B. iarra." If this stood alone it might be treated as a broad jest, intended to cast a mark of contempt on all kinds of polite accomplishments. But it does not star.d alone. It is intended seriously. It can be matched by scores of familiar notices. As taken as it stands it signifies that in the. estimation of the advertiser that the time of a lady who has become proficient in English, Latin, French, piano, violin and drawing, making allowances for time and cost of transport, is worth only 3d or 4d per hourless than the pay of a stable boy