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TRAINING SCHOOLS FOR FEMALE SERVANTS. 5
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thing With more , reference suitable to household than the work schoolroom it may be and observed its stove that must some be - who
found to give full scope to the abilities of those girls are desirous of being initiated into the mysteries difficulties of a housemaid in the ' s art of .
In every way there are almost insuperable way merel combining attend the industrial school from and day intellectual to dayand training are not of such boarded girls and as
y , lod It ged remains in the for establishment us to notice in a which planwhich they receive has often their been education suggested . ,
been for effecting remarked the that object althoug which h , it we mi , g are ht not now be discussing possible to . combine It has
teaching teacher industrial , yet by and engag it would the ing ordinary a be person tolerabl training to attend y easy of the to school school afford under at both certain the kinds times same of first
difficulty which in the the week that plan to meets superintend was adopted us here the , and is industrial that of which of expense department we are . In cognisant . one The case , the in
¦ weekly cost of such a system was upwards of fifteen shillings . It is riht to addhoweverthat this was a case in the metropolis . Doubtless g in a , rural district , the expense would be considerably
less than th , at ; under any circumstances , however there would be some It is bno means easy to see how this extra
expense expense is to be . defrayed , y for unfortunately the managers of schools have the utmost difficulty alreadin collecting the funds requisite
for carrying on the work of elementary y education . It appears to us that the mistake consists in the attempt to make educational
establishments perform a function which is not their primary aim and object . We cannot do better than quote with a slight verbal
modification some remarks from an eminent essayist of the present day"A blade which is designed both to shave and to carve will
. certainly not shave so well as a razor , or carve so well as a carving-knife . An academy of painting which should also be a
bank , would in all probability exhibit very bad pictures , and discount very bad bills . A gas company , which should also be an
infant school society , would , we apprehend , light the streets ill , and teach the children ill . On this principle we think that a
school should be organized solely with a view to its -main end ; and that no part of its efficiency for that end should be sacrificed
in order to promote any other end however excellent . " * Of course if a school , without any sacrifice of its efficiency for the
special purpose for which it is established , can pursue any other good endit ought to do so ; but we think we have shown that it
, cannot do this in relation to industrial training . Can nothing then be done towards the solution of the problem of
rearing a better order of domestic female servants than we at present possess in this country ? Must the stigma attach itself to our schools
that they unfit the children who attend them for the stern duties of
* Lord Macaulay ' s Essays , p . 486 .
Training Schools For Female Servants. 5
TRAINING SCHOOLS FOR _FEMALE SERVANTS . 5
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1859, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031859/page/5/
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