[...] very unsuitable for young misses at a boarding school to be murmuring about their victuals & treating the Gifts of God with disrespect, the Children ought a if you all behave as sensible Children will do you will try to eat every thing that is brought on the Table, if you canot, then let it stand, without grumbling. I will not hope that any of our Scholars go to their diner without taking their knifeve [9] & forks with them, much less that they lean with their elbows on the Table while they are eating, such behaviours would be intolerable rude, the Children from Diner till 1 o clock there is an hour for Amusement & recreation, likewise for preparing your work for the schools in the Afternoon, those things you want from your Trunks would be the right time to get as the Garret is lock’d after 1 o clock you are then
all to attend punctually to your afternoon[10] Schools, and pay the same + not run in & out of the [11] rooms at random, after 4 o clock the Tutoresses allways will do you the satis-faction to walk out with you, but there one [12] is thing to observe in your walks, I have hitherto very much disapprov’d of your running out of the house, there [...]

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9. “e” in “knife” is crossed out with “ve” added above
10. “afternoon” is added above between “your” and “Schools”
11. “the” is added above between “of” and “rooms”
12. “one” is added above between “there” and “is”

Joahann Andreas Hübner’s
rules for conduct at the 1789
Bethlehem Boarding School
for Girls

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