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XX—A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE SANDWELL, HOME.
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Xx—A Few Words About The Sandwell, Home.
XX—A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE _SANDWELL , HOME . BY ERICA .
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___ 1 _^» — In a work professing * especially to treat of subjects concerning * Eng _* lish womenit seems to us that a paper describing an institution
, so valuable , and at present so little known , as the " Home" at Sandwell , near Birmingham , cannot be unacceptable or out of
place . It is at present in its infancy , the plan having been first proposed only about two years _ag-o ; but if life and health be granted
to its present invaluable lady superintendent , Miss Selwyn , ( sister to the Bishop of New Zealand , ) there seems little doubt that it will
prove a blessing * to the country at large . Such an institution was much wanted in England ; it offers a
comfortable home to such ladies as- —whether widowed or single—are left lonely and independent with a small income , under the _ag-e of
sixty . After that age they are not received permanently , but may go for a short time if a daughter or some other near relation
accompanies them . On the death of his father , _$ he present Earl of Dartmouth the family mansion of Sandwell for the charitable
gave purpose we are describing * , during his life-time ; and he succeeded in prevailing on Miss Selwyn to become the directress of the
establishment . The printed Report says : —
" It having been felt that the local wants of the neighbourhood should be first attended to , it was determined to found an Institution
for the Training of Domestic Servants ; the vicinity of the manuing facturing 1 it very districts difficult , and for the persons high rat of e of limited wages income there offered to obtain , render the
services of young girls in any menial capacity . "It was also felt that much of the youthful crime which is so
generally deplored , might be prevented if a home were provided for girls and boys at that most critical period of life , between childhood
and maturity , when , though too old to remain under school discipline , they are too young and inexperiened to obtain respectable
situations . " As it is obvious that domestic servants can never be so effito take
ciently trained as in a family , a few ladies have been induced up their residence in the Institution , and have devoted themselves
to the work of instructing- the young girls in the various duties of house , parlor , or nursery maids . They have also kindly given them
the still greater advantage of religious instruction , and a portion of the young _girls' time has been allotted to reading , writing , and
useful needlework . 66 The first inmate of Sandwell was the young widow of a
clergyman , ( with an infant family of three children under _& ve years old , ) who has now for a year enjoyed the comforts of a quiet and
healtht
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 126, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/54/
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