THE DRAPERS' COMPANY GIRLS' SCHOOL.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
Sts,—The Drapers' Company are anxious to make more widely known a girls' school in their administration, and will be grateful to you for according to this letter the hospitality of your columns. The school is in Lordship Lane, Tottenham, and is known as Elmslea.' It was founded nearly forty years ago under the will
of Thomas Corney, and is for the board, clothing, and education, free of charge, of fatherless girls, daughters of members of the Church of England who have been in a fair position in life, but not able to make provision for the education and maintenance of their children. There is room for thirty-eight girls, who go for the greater part of their education to the Tottenham High School. a few minutes' walk away, an excellent secondary school under the control of the Middlesex County Council. The age of admission is between ten and twelve years, and girls, who must have been previously nominated and their circumstances approved by the Drapers' Company, are selected for admission on the result of a simple competitive examination, held by the Head-Mistress of the High School. The usual age for leaving is sixteen or eighteen, the latter by special permission only. Sometimes further help is given by the Company after leaving school. Elmslea' is a roomy and comfortable building with a large
garden and tennis-court, managed by an experienced Head- Mistress and two assistants. It is, one would think, the very place for girls of good social position whose mothers, owing to the early death of the head of the family, are left in poor circumstances.
I shall always be glad to give information about the school to any one applying to me at this Hall.—I am, Sir, &c., Drapers' Hall, E.C. ERNEST H. POOLE!'
(Clerk to the Drapers' Company).
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