This is of great service to those parents who go out to work; for by sending their children's dinners with them, they are enabled to attend to their employment in comfort, and the children, when properly disciplined, will be no additional trouble to the teacher, for they will play about the play-ground, while he takes his dinner, without doing any mischief.
_Fourth rule_.

Many persons will keep their children away for a month or two when nothing is the matter with them, consequently the children will lose almost all they have learned at school.

Besides this, children are kept out, who perhaps would attend regularly, and we should never know how many children were in the establishment.

If, therefore, a parent does not attend to this rule, the child's name is struck off the book.
On the admission of every child, the parents should be supplied with a copy of the preceding rules, as this will prevent them from pleading any excuse; it should be fastened on pasteboard, otherwise they will double it up and put it into their pockets, and forget all about it; but being on pasteboard, they may hang it up in their dwellings.

The short exhortation that follows, it is hoped, may have its use, by reminding the parents of their duty to co-operate with those persons who have the welfare both of themselves and their children at heart.
The reasons for the holiday of Saturday are, first, that the teacher requires a rest, the infant system being so laborious.