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other one, however, she wrote me a letter after amonth and told me what a good little soul John wasand what clean ways he had, but at the same timereferring to not wanting him any longer. I nevertook no notice and a fortnight after I got a letterfrom her saying she had turned him over to a nurserywith the feeble excuse that he wetted the bed, butnow when I sit and think of the different places hehas been to and the way he has been treated, Mrs.B . . . has done me a good turn in the long run bygetting John into your nursery, now he can playwith other children and do just as he pleases withoutsomebody continually saying "Don't do thisandthat", so I hope he will soon get back to his jollycarefree ways as I am sure he will do by this descriptionmy sister gave me of the nursery. WellMatron, I hope I have not bored you stiff with thislong letter, but I have described to you as bestI can as to where John has been since my illness ..."TrainingSchemeWe have at the moment about twenty younggirls of the age between sixteen and twenty-oneyears working for us in our houses. Apartfrom the very youngest they have all had sometraining as nurses, baby nurses, or nursery schoolteachers, partly on the continent and partly inEngland. To give a sounder foundation ofsome common knowledge to our work with thechildren, we have now decided to start out ona purely private and unofficial training scheme147