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    OPEN COUNCIL. 353

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    XjADIES While , doing the utmost justice...

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    Infant Mortality. \ And Ladies Its There...

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    proved the greater medical numb treatment er . of these , may " fatal render disorders them seldom ; " and , fatal I mi . ght add , that y an

    im-Dr . Lieared calls attention to the want of success very generally attending artific anything ial feeding but ill-health ; and con to int cludes erfere th with at " it their is a mat crim ernal e for duties moth . " ers This to p state ermit

    -. ment , I certainly think , requires some little qualification . Mothers who are not exactly in in ill-health , but instances who may with be perfect described safety as

    . " and delicate indeed , " with might great , I am advantage satisfied , to themselves numerous and their , offspring , bring up , their children bhand . But their natural instinctcombined with the stigma

    y , of Dr " criminality Leared , admits " deters that them . the evil are mainldue to the

    . " consequences y it mode is reasonable in which childr to en are fed the ; results " consequentl would y be , if entirel a right different mode were . adopted , y

    he . Indeed traced , to in the this , insufficient as suppose in so many , care other and instances attention , want of mothers of success . ~ may It is generall the old y

    story" Evil From is want wroug of ht thought . "

    Yours obediently ,

    Benj . T . Moore , M . D .

    Open Council. 353

    OPEN COUNCIL . 353

    Xjadies While , Doing The Utmost Justice...

    XjADIES While doing the utmost justice to the kindliness of motive which

    " led prompted ging the Miss usefulness Boucherett of ' many s paper of on its the remarks choice , of that I a cannot business but , and believe acknow she that has

    m _^ than expressed any the of your herself good readers in she a must manner zealousl have calculated felt desires , with to me do , harm on deeper one , point if not wider ,

    very so y . dressmakers If I think , " it a grave belong mistake ing to almost to have parallel classed of trades together , it " is governesses that on far should deeper and be

    grounds than those involved in any question " gentility "—I the But last if to at care the very to vindicate root , of . the difficulty which we all so anxiously desire to and h education

    see solvedlies the widespread need of better more thoroug , ' surel Onl to which y y or it mainl may we , must y well , from look grieve a pecuniary for any radical one and who aid , commercial so put regards on a onl trade it point , to who level see of do the , view feel and very . themselves considered I vocation use the

    * word " called vocation of God advisedl " to the y work , for it they is from undertake those , that y we can hope for real and _ivorth I start y assistance from the . deep principle so admirabl work y indicated the in to Ruskm be done 's " before Unto

    this Last . " Before the worker , comes the —thing sing the le doer child of — it the . Consider tastes and the powers vast importance demanded kind of for the for the education the right ift performance of of imparting even a

    knowled of the work , and and the these genuine of an altoge pleasure ther peculiar in teaching , ; are by no g means to be think found in true ge every , teacher thoroug will hl feel y educated the end and and aim even of talente her work d person accomp . I lished do not if

    a " she there simp are ly very " enable many her who pup would ils to feel earn that a good object livelihood far from the Church the hereafter moat . important " gentle I trust .

    manl Just y profession as we shudder , " or " to a hear good of opening young men in life entering , " so , in a somewhat as lower a " degree - ,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1863, page 353, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011863/page/65/