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    356 PASSING EVENTS.

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    The Lady Secretary then read the following paper supplementary to the rep of Women ort : —The , considering acting committee that much of the will Society be suggested for Promoting to those the who Employment take an "

    active share in its work , which must escape the observation of such as only " hear of it , have requested me to read the following paper containing some tions remarks we which have made could are not presented properly with be embodied diffidence , in as the our report field of . observation The

    reflecmay not be sufficiently extended to justify general inferences . Still , as they have or consider of been those it time strong who to are ly record forced trying them upon to for promote the the attention consideration the interests of the of parents acting of the committee and guardians . The , we , -

    young subjects which we wish to bring forward are—1 . Industrial Training ; 2 . and Sick unprovided Nursing ; 3 for . Some . One causes of _otir of difficulties the large n arises umber from of women the general unemp neg loyed lect

    of industrial training for girls either in their own homes or at school . It is notorious that even in the humbler schools this evil is rampant . Lessons on chi geology ldren , of botany the poorest , and other classes sciences whilst , with they ancient are left history without , & manual c , are g skill iven to in

    many useful departments ; nor , are they accustomed to apply all their _powers to that what irls oug whose ht hereafter lace b to birth be their is that daily of work domestic . The service result of in this some often of its is ,

    grades g , leave school p , desp y ising such an occupation , or so little prepared for it respectability that none care , while to emp others loy them seek . for The work unstead in factories y among or them as needl soon ewomen sink below for

    gentility's sake . Beginning thus at the lowest end of remunerated female grades labour , are we find undul one y swelled class pressing , not by on those the heels whose of position another or , until personal the hi merit gher

    ought to fill them , but by others who either discharge the duties assigned to them with little comfort to themselves and as little advantage to those connected with themor stand from the first among the " unemployed . " '

    Those who rise from merit , are not intended by this . While this is the state of things at one end of the scale , we find a deficiency at the other , as the want

    of high principled and efficient domestic servants is extensively felt . The much evil we more have desirable tried to it describe is to be is well a grave fitted one for , the no station less than we forgetting are in than how to

    relation rise externall to our y fellow a few -creatures grades , in but social that position in which , we and stand that to not God merel , dep y ends . our upon how we discharge our duty , rather than upon what that duty is . With

    reference to sick-nursing , it is scarcely needful to allude to the general valuable conviction and that rare well . - Thi qualified s employment nurses , are which , in has most long departments been desp , ised equall , is y

    only now beginning to be viewed in its true light , as a noble office which , as It Margare has been t Fuller considered Ossoli , says especiall , " no y menial in hosp , no ital servile nursing nature , as , a can resource fitly occupy for all . '

    who were unfit for more active or more honoured occupations , instead of training which being recognised some and , and experience onl as y a some . distinct The , have mean and a peculiar s elevated of securing fitness sphere , this while of is woman even at present these 's work require inade , for

    from take quate Some up Dr in of ., the Eng our now subject friends land Professor , while may of , sick in Gairdner remember - Scotland nursing was . that there The read at is our , idea recommending absolutel last was annual not y no new meeting provision th to at us we , , but a should for letter our it .

    nurse plans were was being then too trained immature under to the be Ni broug ghtingal ht before e Fund the in _j > London ublic , althoug , and a h lad one y nurse was preparing from London herself returned for the same to Edinburg work in h an last hosp spring ital in has Germany had . several The

    , offer _engagements for her . from The us lad , and y , after is at remaining present at som liberty e months for any in other Germany which , is now

    mayin one of the wards of the Royal Infirmary of this city , in order to gain

    356 Passing Events.

    356 PASSING EVENTS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1863, page 356, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011863/page/68/