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    4 THE PROFESSION OF THE TEACHEE.

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    The Annual Reports Of The Governesses' B...

    temporary home for Governesses out of situations , "where they could be more cheaply and respectably lodged than elsewhere ; and in

    connexion with this Honie , a system of free registration . The in latter 1846 plan was was tran firs sferre t carried d to int the o Home operation which at the received office in duri 1845 , and the ng

    first six months of its existence , fifty-two , governesses as , inmates . Finallyin 1849 an aged asylum was completed and inhabited ,

    , , and in 1856 its inmates numbered twenty-two . Our readers will perhaps be tired of all these dates and figures ,

    but only hy their aid can we present even the slightest outline of what has been done bthis long series of labours . We will now

    gladly turn to some of y the many beautiful anecdotes of tender Christian feeling among these numbers of women , both among those who

    gave and those who received ;—nay , in some cases , the poorest were also the iversWe find in one of the earliest reports that ,

    particulars g having . reached the ladies' committee of a young governess who was ding at Cheltenhama request was forwarded to a friend

    in that distant y town , who adopted , the duty of the metropolitan institutionand watched her to the last . In May of the same year

    a lady sent , 15 ? . to be divided among the unsuccessful candidates for annuities another sent 11 . for the same purpose ; and in November

    " an anonymous friend sent through Messrs . Hoare the noble donation of 100 ? ., to be divided amongst ten of the unsuccessful

    candidates , at the discretion of the Committee . " This friend afterwards _proved to be DrThackerayProvost of King ' s College , Cambridge ,

    who on his decease . in 1851 bequeathed , an annuity to the Society . Here is a short story of a more delicate and tender kindness than

    humanity can often bring forward . The following letter was received from a former successful annuitant , whose whole income was 40 ? .

    " I am quite happy here , and rather useful to my fellow creatures . I purposed writing next month to Mr . Laing , to do me

    a very " I want great him favour to be next so polling good as -day to . take the trouble to select from shabbiest dressed of sister

    and governesses the poorest necessaril , , the who y retire most may friendless disappointed the next , the polling ; ask him -day to present invite such themselves my an and one ,

    try be to , spend to agreeabl warm a month e and or the cheer with reverse me her . . the I shal I shall December l give try the to time heartiest live , whoever nicel ht welcome y during for she , may few her

    weeks sojourn to . be The shared mercies with I the at disappointed this moment ! " enj Meeting oy oug this invita a - tion it deserveda ladwas sent to whom change of air and

    kindness as were deemed , most y valuableand the visitor remained " nine weeks under her peaceful roof , " remarking , of her hostess , in a she isin suit

    letter" Often have I seen her , aged as , making up , a - able way from , , garments her richer for nei the hbours poor , . that It she is astonishing had begged to for see the pur how - g

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    4 The Profession Of The Teachee.

    4 THE PROFESSION OF THE TEACHEE .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1858, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031858/page/4/