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138 OPEN COUNCIL.
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The Profession Of The Teacher.*
history nei would ghbourhood not , writing exclude at , and 6 ornamental ? . arithmetic a year for , that a and good being a due Eng also attention lish useful education to ? useful Then , including needlework the income geograp , which of hy the ,
schoolwithout extras for fuel , in the winter , books , stationery , & c , would be the 24 : 01 . , As lish a studies general or rule if it not may music be antici French pated . Music that mu at 4 sic : 1 . per would annum be added for half to Eng
twenty the number would of no pup doubt ils , would , learn add French 801 . , , to say the at 24 31 : 01 . _j that _> ., er making annum 320 , addin ? . ; g the 601 remaining . more might to
the income 8801 . It is not at all improbable drawing or German also 47 each be an would object , add to 601 a moiety or 80 of ? the making pupils 440 , and Z . or these 4601 accomp . per annum lishm . ents Coul at d 3 ? . not or
live three . young 2601 or including middle- . house aged ladies -rent ., acting conduct as such the memb a school ers ? of and one could famil they y for the not
common on interest . and therefore determining , not to spend more than such an amountor at all , events not more than 300 _? . ? Then they could lay by 1602 . in
a such bank an , , or association apply it to to the be purchase entered of into annuities life permitting in each other , & ' s c , favour for , say . Suppose twenty
the sisterhood would then have , realised 3200 ? . besides the interest , years which ; . I do not calculateand each would be entitled to , an equal share . With
these funds each could certainl , y purchase an annuity , or lend it on mortgage , or other generall ways too emp expensive loy it , so for as to the secure daug old hters age of from tradesmen want . of Boarding the average -schools income are
here contemp y lated ; and if they were not too expensive , they have other objections to which I venture here to refer . First , they take a daughter of the duties
unseeml The middle long classes absence vanity too and also entirely conceit makes away her are too in from danger much home , of of association being a _luonder generated s when and domesti she in the returns youthful c , and .
mind , not y duly balanced by the teachings of experience . A mother ' s eye is , after allbetter than a governess ' s in many of the actual experiences of young
ing girls ; and , the sisters opportunities in their which earl a efforts daughter should from not twelve be lost to fifteen sight of has and of assist might
younger y , indeed if the famil with great be large propriety and be the broug income ht to of bear the upon father her moderate mind as . a The positive health duty of ,
the daug parent hters is y of of four great or moment five can to much the comfor more t efficientl of mothers y superintend , and in this it particular than the
princi travelling pal of is a avoided boarding , and -school the with dress thirty can be or more forty . economicall Then the y great managed expense , for in of
boarding-schools there must be always more or less of emulation in this respect many The speak character , persons , than an emulation a boarding who of the consider which - instructresses school a no day . one I -school cannot can will desire as , always for a less my to encourage di be par gnified t sufficient , entertain establishment . I know to such fix there an beyond , so idea are to .
question , the respectability of the establishment when it is once known , ; and the risk of debt is so much less to all the parties concerned , that , in these times
of more difficulty desirable and of necessary the two caution systems as . to It all rea expenditure lly combines , it the appears advantages much the of
school with the comforts of homethe daily and domestic duties of girl-life , with the intercourse of enlihtened and accomplished mindsever regarding
their pupils , not as show-girls g to astonish each little community , into which familwho shall constantlfeel the
growth they must , of their enter minds , but contributing as members to of the a pleasure y of all , but inciting y neither
envy nor dislike in any by the vain display of intellectual attainment or of
138 Open Council.
138 OPEN COUNCIL .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1858, page 138, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041858/page/66/
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