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    316 THE CXJI BONO OF SCHOOLS OF ART FOR ...

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    not sentimental fastidiousness , but that grace and delicacy which _, result from all highly wrought workmanship , and which are like

    the lustre of the well-tempered steel , that testifies to the _strength while it adds to the beauty . And are not women learning that

    the wise spending of money is as important as the wise getting ; and that the efficient management of a householdwith the requirements

    , of its physical as well as moral well-being , offers room for all the knowledge and skill , the thought and feeling , that they can bring to

    bear upon it ? The educated woman knows , far more than the uneducated one can do , the relative weight of things in the social

    scale ; she knows the need that there is for careful , wise attention to the wants of our physical frame— -the great influence that food

    and clothing exert on character and disposition . Nothing therefore to her is mean , nothing trifling . G-iven a woman with a large

    heart and moral sense sufficient to recognise the sanctity of duty , and then the more brains she has the better . Men are

    acknowledging this more and more . They are also learning , and with a little surprise , that what has appeared to them the result of a

    blessed , but blind " intuition , " has often proceeded from a perception of some great truths , and an endeavour to act upon them in a

    small sphere . Great truths are capable of an infinite variety of applications .

    The quiet , unceasing , reasoning care which , in some blessed cases , pervades , like an atmosphere , every part of the house , and makes the

    wife seem to be a benignant providence close at hand—that care which is so precious that all under its influence fear to lose it , yet

    so secret , that they dare not praise it—arises often from the fact that the wife has received , no matter how , a deep impression of the

    majestic steadiness of all nature's movements , has felt something of the force and the beauty of the poet ' s dictum , " Unhasting and

    unresting move the eternal stars , " and has resolved reverently to seek to carry out the same principle , and act upon the same motto .

    x < Gather up the fragments , that nothing be lost , " is a great working principle with nature . With her there are no such things as " waste

    products ; " in her laboratory , evilest things are transmuted into _g"ood , and she who has seen , in ever so small a degree , that it is so ,

    and has felt the usefulness and beauty of the law , hastens with pleasure to carry out the same in her household economics .

    Thus the labour that strives to make " a little g _* o a great way , " is redeemed from its distastefulness , and raised from the rank of a

    painful necessity , and the great principle sanctifies and elevates the small daily detail .

    Such and so blessed are the fruits of knowledge , where the seed lias been sown on good ground , and such are the results , which , it

    as believed , Schools of Art contribute in no small degree to produce .

    316 The Cxji Bono Of Schools Of Art For ...

    316 THE CXJI BONO OF SCHOOLS OF ART FOR WOMEN .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1863, page 316, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011863/page/28/