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    PASSING EVENTS. 357

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    or womanat a time when tenderness , sympathy , and skill are especially needed . We say , with emphasis a Christian woman than — menial for to her she alone alone will will the have office the of

    patient will tending recognise fortitude the sick it appear to bear honoured otherwise cheerfully task all that in which it — involves she , will and walk she alone very

    as an whose near to life Christ while because on earth she doing is treading good , included very closel the y in " healing His footsteps of all ,

    unprovided manner of , diseases forfew . " points With regard have struck to the number us which of we women wish unemp to present loyed and for

    confirmation It or , correction a to , as that the the experience reluctance of others to in various women spheres even may in

    suggest sistence occupations . peculiarl appears general y capability suited us to which them , they arises will from bring a doubt engage to their of the work energy , , rather ,

    perthan department from , s a of princi work p — le , domestic which , manual would , altogether or intellectual exclude — elcomed when them a when woman . In found has all

    positions proved and readil her for y fitness which employed for what . le The she remark be has fitted undertaken we b have training , made she is and w app to lies those both for to which those

    and there thos must e of be attendant a natural peop on aptitude can the sick , such or as insane th y at . of In teacher these , , or and rather other educator depart- , but few of those enrolled

    fitted remain ments , for for either the which duties wholl many y they or are partiall wish enrolled to y undertake unemp , while loyed , the . larger In a this number respect , will women inevitabl must are y

    view or stand otherwise we exactl are y , driven as on they the back same are to capable footing the fundamental or as not men for , both what oint must they of rise education profess or fall to , and be do . are successful In forced this p ,

    to boys recognise . Among a marked the former difference we constantl between y find that a total which absence in is g the iven of to the girls thoroug of and boys h to

    while In power ness the and wisdom is one g accuracy iven case is of a desired , certain attaining which for degree is the more considered other of . attainment Mere The indispensable knowled one is is aimed ge to know is at soug , a in training ht certain the for other the amount , one the , .

    fault while lies the , thoug other h is we to have have certain our own qualities op . inion . upon It various is it not . The for us effect to say of l where this to state the for ,

    emp of things loyment , as , we having see it learned , is "that a many little women of many of things h , and grades nothing in appy well depart us . On

    the other handwhen a woman has had thorougtraining any one - in ment her , not which only can , is be she readil well fitted and serviceabl for that , but turned qualities in many have other been directions developed y y

    —oras Mrs . Beecher Stowe expresses it , she has " faculty . " Another phase , of for the differen in t way the in which of parents sons who and have daughters carefull are studied sometimes the

    provided appears case y powers these of time , of for their their corresponding sons special , have not education advantages grudged in large a have profession sums been of money or iven trade to , nor , the while a long daug neither hters space .

    nor any g creditab The injustice lfilling of this definite appears laces strong in society ly when while parents their die daug , leaving htersunprovided their sons

    tions for in fall a pecuniary y as a dead way wei , and ht p unable to one gain , who a maintenance will bear the by burden their , own . When exergupon any

    a father , who has been in the receipt of hundreds or thousands a year , leaves his daug , hters in such circumstances , ( and I speak not alone of imaginary cases appeal , ) the

    have generous charges some , of liberal ri selfishness ght , to and comp , sympathising improvidence lain of this public , unfair or vul , to demand gar whom love upon of disp them they lay , ; can heaped while The real the by , otherthe of the deadare- too just to be repelled .

    cure fo s r on these memory cases can be neither , in such societies as ours , nor in those

    Passing Events. 357

    PASSING EVENTS . 357

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1863, page 357, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011863/page/69/