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    TRAINING SCHOOLS FOR FEMALE SERVANTS. S

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    It is evident that in orphanages , workhouses , and all other establishments in which irls are boarded and lodgedand in which

    there is abundance of work g to be done , it is perfectl , y possible , eas-we "were about to sayto instruct girls in the kind of work to

    which y we have referred . , We do not say that even in such cases the necessary instruction is always afforded ; on the contrary , we

    believe that such establishments , workhouses especially , would furnish us with almost innumerable instances of cruel neglect in

    this respect . Still , as -we observed before , instruction in cooking , bakingwashingthe _" getting up" of fine linenand general

    is household not our , intention matters , , may to include be afforded them in in our such remarks places , . and , We therefore deal now it

    simply with the ordinary day schools attended by the children of the lower classes . Our readers must dismiss all others from their

    minds . ( 1 . ) Can instruction in plain cooking be combined with

    booklearning in girls' schools ? "We believe that industrial work , to be taught at all , must be taught practically . It is idle to speak of

    teaching raw ship . material It it is theoreticall patent to be , therefore cooked y . All must , labor that be if requires provided cooking an . is actual But to be how taug apprentice is ht such , the

    material to be provided in an ordinary day-school ? It may be said , perhapsthat the ts of the children might be induced to send a

    supply . , Those , h paren owever , who argue thus , know very little about the social condition of the poor . If they had visited their homes ,

    and had learnt to estimate their difficulties , —difficulties , be it observed , which in thousands of instances only One who is above all

    knows or ever can know , though there are some _" whom the world calls wise " who think they know them all—they would never broach

    this crude notion . It is useless to attempt , to answer such an argument . Suppose , however , that parents were generally in a

    position to send their children to school with a certain quantity of _xaw material to be cooked therewould the kind of food sent by

    themJ serve in the most remote , degree for that practice in the culinary art in which it is desirable to indoctrinate them ? The

    answer is evident . But it may be said that the girls might be allowed to dress their teacher ' 's food . This plan has been tried in

    numerous cases , andi the . instances of failure have been quite as numerous . The _experiment has generally been attended with the

    same result , —the teacher ' s dinner has been spoilt . Might not one very naturally predicate such a result ? Teaching of course involves

    the necessity of a teacher . . The girls could not cook their teacher ' s dinner because they had not / been instructed in the art of cooking ,

    and , they had not been instructed because there was no person to question instruct them : Who . This is to point teach in the our argument ils the art brings of cooking us to another ? Of

    pup _course the answer which suggests itself to the minds of all persons of whom this question is asked , is marked by that sameness whicli

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    Training Schools For Female Servants. S

    TRAINING SCHOOLS FOR FEMALE SERVANTS . S

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1859, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031859/page/3/