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Vox.. HI. March. 1, 1859. No. 13.
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I.—TRAIJSTISra SCHOOLS FOR FEMALE SERVAN...
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Is it possible to point to a time when s...
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The
THE
ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNAL .
PUBLISHED MONTHLY .
Vox.. Hi. March. 1, 1859. No. 13.
Vox .. HI . March . 1 , 1859 . No . 13 .
I.—Traijstisra Schools For Female Servan...
I . _—TRAIJSTISra SCHOOLS FOR FEMALE SERVANTS , _^ B
Is It Possible To Point To A Time When S...
Is it possible to point to a time when society had not some pressing claimto some social evil to describe , which was said to
demand , immediate urge , and special attention ? We do not ask this ¦ question in a querulous spirit . On the contrarywe regard the
answer which must be given to it as an encourag , ing fact ; one which , may well be considered as a symptom of that intense longing
for , and faith in , the indefinite improvability ( if we may use the term ) of ourselves and everything around uswhich characterise a
, progressive state of Christian civilization . In a world in which so much , that is practicable remains to be done , is it not natural that
the most thoughtful and earnest among us should be anxiously seeking the best means of _discharging what they conceive to be an ~
imperative duty ; namely , the social advancement of their fellowcreatures ? They must , however , often feel that their work has a
negative as well as a positive character . For example , they are _frequently obliged to apply their energies to the task either of
pulling down , -or opposing , in limine , measures which their more enthusiastic but less cautious neighbours have set on foot . Of
course , at first sight , their labor in this respect appears to be pure loss , because the time which they might have employed in making
headway is consumed in the less satisfactory operation of pointing out and devising remedies for the errors of others . It is , perhaps ,
¦¦ on ** Companions that account of my that Solitude Mr . Arthur " is induced Helps , in to his make well the known following work ,
, remarks . " One thing I see , and that is that there is a quantity of misplaced labor , of labor which is not consumed in stern
contest with tlie rugged world around us in the endeavor to compel Nature to give us our birth-right , but in fighting with * strong
delusions' of all kinds , or rather in putting up obstacles which we laboriously knock down again , in making Chinese mazes between
us and objects we have daily need of , and where we should have only the shortest possible line to go . As I have said elsewhere ,
half the labor of the world is pure loss—the work of Sisyphus rolling up stones to come down again inevitably . "
The preceding observations may serve to direct our reader ' s attention to a complaint which is being made almost hourly by a
large and increasing class of persons who may be said to represent the more thoughtful section of society . "We allude to the alleged
difficulty of obtaining good female domestic servants . We must
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1859, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031859/page/1/
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