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408 PICTURES FOR THE SICK.
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Has it ever occurred to artists and amat...
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Patrons And Patronesses. Lord Andmiiiiia...
_Tbecause they Lad not given notice of a clianged address , or made -the application , a little too late . Of course , while time thus passed
employers both sought and found elsewhere what they required . A private register for benevolent purposes has been transferred
to this society , and is carried on there by the lady who originated itbut the two are kept quite distinct both as regards their
management ; and funds . Could the intention of this register be fully carried out , employment would be provided for women who are
dependent on their own exertions , not for support , but for happiness , and who would gladly work for others did they know how . The
names entered on this register show that there are not a few so disposed , and the ideal contemplated in beginning it will not be
realized until there is what Miss Twining , in a recent letter on sick nursingcalls a " House of Charity , " which would form a centre
-for all works , of benevolence in that district . In it there would be residents or constant workers , as well as another class consisting of
associates or assistants who should not live in the house , but attend for a few hours daily as their parents or other relatives could spare
them . The boarder in such a house should in turn go out to learn the work in hospitals , prisons , workhouses , and schools , for only on
the spot can the work be learned . Miss Twining adds : In the establishment of such institutions I see a prospect of increasing
: _haj _3 piness , a boundless sphere of occupation for women , though probably a diminution in the number of readers for the
circulating libraries ; but we should then hear less of the want of employment for women as well as of their sorrows , real or imaginary ,
physical or mental . "
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408 Pictures For The Sick.
408 PICTURES FOR THE SICK .
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Has It Ever Occurred To Artists And Amat...
Has it ever occurred to artists and amateurs possessed of artistic minds and clever fingershow much comfort they might bestow
upon the convalescent , the , sick , and perhaps even the dying , were their labors directed to the embellishment of the long spaces of
' blank _hosjrital wall which alone meet the eye , day after day , of the wearylistlessand frequently hopeless , sufferers who are
congregated , together , within these woeful chambers ? It is no grand idea of fresco that I would suggest , no
impracticable scheme involving expense and years of labor , but simply permission to hang opposite the beds of the sick in hospital or
work-; liouse wards such works of art of a soothing character as should be water contributed -color for or rendered that purpose by . engr Beautiful aving or sacred _photograp subj _h e y cts all , in of oil a ,
comforting , and elevating character , good in art and clear , and bold
In their rendering-, would Ibe acceptable for the purpose unquestion-
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1862, page 408, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021862/page/48/
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