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i THE PROFESSION OF THE TEACHES. 9
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The Annual Reports Of The Governesses' B...
labourers . " For tlie smallest aptitude with the pen , and 'what would appear to be a very average power of arranging ideas in seift
quence , is not a very widely diffused intellectual g . Among men , hacks how small perhaps is the comparative be reckoned number by thousands of artists the and average authors writers !—the
may , by loyed hundreds women , the it is geniuses a question by tens of tens . But of thousands when we . What speak then of unem will
the p arts do for , them , when every other woman one meets is ready to assure one that she could not write for the press " to save her
life" ? And here we would remark on what we consider to have been
very undeserved ridicule cast upon a sentence in Miss Leigh Smith ' s has little been pamp regarded hlet entitled as the Women ne his ultra and Work of wild . ' arithmeti The sentence c , runs , which thus
—it occurs at the close of some p remarks on female destitution : — for " the Apprentice make 10 , 000 10 to 000 watchmakers good account ; ants train ; put , 000 10 , for 000 teachers more to
be nurses young under ; deaconesses , trained by Florence Nightingale ; put some thousands in the electric telegraph offices all over the country ;
educate 1000 lecturers for mechanics' institutions ; 1000 readers to read the best books to the working people ; train up 10 , 000 to
manage tressed needle washing -women -machines would , sewin vanish g-machines ; the , decayed etc . Then gentlewomen the
disand broken-down governesses would no longer exist . " _ISTowto isolate this sentence so as to make it appear that any
ve out one ry person the sure , population was , or never any dozen b contemp y thousands of committees lated , by is an the , is absurdity writer expected of which this thus energeti to we parcel are c
which little pamp relief hlet must . It be is afforded merely a before rapid the summing enormous up of classes the scal of desti e on
tute womenfrom the refined lady to the , " Eighty thousand smile at women niht in beneath one smile the , " gas
y g , can If be , as raised may be to the seen point in exam of prosperous ining the census industry either , forty . unmarried -three per cent wi _,
dowed of women if above one half the of age the of female twenty population are of the country or are - the paid number labourers ;— of ;—if , as the reports alone at the be head assumed of our at paper fifteen suppose thou- , may
larger amount sand , and , — int then the number wholesome it governesses is evident of paupers trades that and by an ideal tens worse of distribution than thousands paupers of is enormousl the merel gross y y a
o forecasting of the results which we must set ourselves to obtain somehow . intellifemale
To what ends then must we hope to see the gent
I The Profession Of The Teaches. 9
i THE PROFESSION OF THE TEACHES . 9
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1858, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031858/page/9/
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