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4 TRAINING SCHOOLS EOR FEMALE SERYANTS.
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is said to characterise self-evident trutlis . It always amounts , to this , —that the mistress should not only devote her attention to
bookwork of instructing , to the intellectual 1 them in industrial training occupations of her pup . ils , Thi but s answer also to the deserve task s
notice . "We do not see that it is possible for the teacher to do anything of the kind . As she could not be in the school-room and
the kitchen at the same time , either the school or the cooking would be neglectedmost likely both . Cooking could not be taught after
, school hours . In most cases the teacher is bound by the requirements of the Committee of Council on Education to instruct her
' * pupil-teachers " every day , except Sunday , for one hour and a half after her work in the school has been concluded . The preparation
of "her " notes of lessons , " and the " fixing of needlework , " must also be done in the evenings ; so that she has not time even for
exercise and recreation . Indeed it is said that the labor which our best teachers of irls' schools undergois now so great , and that
strain on the finer g nervous system ( which , all of us who work much with the brain must sooner or later feel to our cost ) is so excessive ,
that they become a prey in a short time to languor , general debility , and those " everlasting droopings " mentioned by George Herbert .
( 2 ) It is often said that washing and the " getting up" of fine linen may be taught to girls by the mistress of the school which
they attend . This assertion , however , when brought to the test of experience will hardly be found to be worth anything . We are met
at once by the same difficulty that attended the question of cooking . The mistress could not thoroughly instruct the pupils in washing , etc .,
and teach her school as well ; they would consequently be very imperfectly taught in laundry workand persons would be most unwilling
to subject their clothes to the , tender mercies of learners ; in fact , to the chances and accidents attending a mere experimental process .
As pertinent to this point , we may state that on one occasion we attended a public meeting at which the subject of industrial training
was discussed , especially laundry work . Gentle reader , we were all gentlemen , and of course were very critical . Each of us had
something to say about washing , much as we disliked washing day . Perhaps it was the lurking dislike we bore to it that made us anxious
to say all that could be said with reference to the subject , and then to dismiss it , but not , alas ! for ever . The chairman of the meeting
doubted whether persons would send their linen to the school to be washed ; and by way of showing the dangers to which it would be
exposed , very innocently inquired whether any gentleman then present had ever submitted his own shirts to be experimented upon .
The effect of that question was tolerably ludicrous . It was electrical . " Then folt we like some watcher of the skies When lanet swims into his ken
" Or like a stout new p Cortez when with eagle eye ; s He stared at the Pacific—and all his men
_Looked at each other with a wild surmise
Silent , upon a peak in Darien . "
4 Training Schools Eor Female Seryants.
4 _TRAINING SCHOOLS _EOR FEMALE _SERYANTS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1859, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031859/page/4/
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