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88 BIOGRAPHY.
nous sommes devenues de si bons amis. N’est ce pas que
nous sonimes bons amis?” he said, patting the lad, who
was twelve years old, on the shoulder. The latter looked
a little uneasy, but answered, after a short reflection: “Je
crois certainement que nous le deviendrons lorsque nous
nous connaitrons mieux.” It was impossible to answer
more candidly, and at the same time more politely.
These boys had the invaluable happiness of having
mothers who had understood how to lay the best founda-
tion of all education.
“I know no other sphere of activity for your gifted
women, none more useful and blessed for the state,” I said
to Fredrika, “than to educate the youth of the country,
and to give them the compass which shows them the right
way on their journey through life, and the beneficial influ-
ence of which extends over generations.”
Fredrika did not say much in reply to my educational
projects ; she wanted to see woman active in all directions
of the world’s stage.
My mother and sisters had several years previously
founded a school on an estate in the neighborhood of Ar-
sta, also belonging to our family. An elderly widow had
been engaged as teacher, after having passed the Normal
School for National School-teachers in Stockholm, and
her daughter instructed the girls in sewing, knitting, and
spinning. My sister Hedda, who warmly and truly appre-
ciated the practical in life, superintended this department
of the school, and saw that the girls were taught to mend
their stockings, and patch and repair their clothes. Every
thing went on excellently in this school. The children
were industrious, good, and very anxious to attend regu-
larly. In this manner it was carried on many years, until
1842, when a statute was passed in which more extended:
knowledge was required as a condition for competent
teachers in national schools. These requirements our
teacher could not fulfill, A good and clever man was en-
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