BOYS AT THE WINDOW
It is not so very long since the death of that Lord Esher who was Viceroy of India, and yet, in a quotation from his diary which appeared in The Times, we seem to be taken back to ancient times. He was in Worcester, in 1874 when he wrote: It is pleasant to see the small and dirty boys reading the labels in the shop windows. It is one of the signs of the happier future. Shall I live to see education of children forced • upon parents? Why can it not be done? No one nowadays is surprised to find a poorly-dressed boy who can read. It is pleasant to think that Lord Esher lived to see the thing he dreamed at 22 become a commonplace fact.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1934, Page 21 (Supplement)
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