EDUCATION IN GIRL'S MISSION SCHOOLS IN AFRICA.
THE object in a mission school is to send out a girl educated above, but not away from, her people. Accordingly she is generally kept in touch with her home surroundings, by practising in school the characteristic household duties which she will perform all her life. In South Africa the Zulu girls, who have been accustomed to open-air life, would pine in the school-room, were it not for the trees to be planted and the garden-digging to be done. This story is told by Bishop Crowther:— At Bonney, in the Niger Mission, it was agreed by the chiefs that £2 a year should be paid for each boy and girl that attended the school. When the time came, the chiefs objected to paying for the girls, as they could not afterward earn money like the boys. The Bishop himself then agreed to pay for the girls, who were trained to read, sew, knit, and make bread. A certain day came when the chiefs were entertained, and Miss Susan Jumbo, daughter of Oleo Jumbo, made the bread, which her father praised without knowing who had made it. When informed, he was greatly pleased; and from that time native scruples as to the utility of investing money in the education of girls disappeared in that mission.