Country Life
VILLAGE 'PRENTICES.
Could it happen in any but an English 'village that no one is willing to accept proffered money ? A very great many parishes have the use of charities left for many special objects, most for paying apprenticeship dues. All sorts of employees In engineering factories, as well as in the shops of blacksmiths and carpenters, are glad to take apprentices and pay them a small fee. These local charities often enable this fee to be raised to a fair self-supporting wage ; and it is the general experience that the apprentices benefit more by a definite apprenticeship and the chance of seeing several sides of the industry than by going in to the business as hands a little later in life. Yet the dispensers of these funds find great difficulty in disposing of their money, and some, much against their wish, have accumulated considerable sums.
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