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128 A FEW WOBDS ABOUT THE SANDWEIX HOME.
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A few of the rules are as follow : — . " -1 . Each , lady is expected to select some one branch , of useful
occupation connected with the objects of the Institution , and to employ herself therein at the time alloted for such , occupation .
" 2 . Absence from prayers , unless occasioned by illness , will be considered a departure from the rules of the house . The bell will
ring five minutes before the commencement of prayers ; and also before every meal , to allow time for the inmates to assemble .
" 3 . The hours are thus arranged : Prayers , morning , nine a . m . ; evening , nine p . m . Breakfast , immediately after morning prayers .
Dinner , two p . m . in summer ; six p . m . in winter . Tea , half-past six in summer ; eight p . m . in winter . The post conies in at nine
a . m . and four p . m ., and goes out at half-past six p . m . " This is merely a very hasty and rough sketch of the general
plan of the Institution , but surely it is enough to show what a blessing it will be to England , if , besides all the inestimable benefits
conferred on orphan children of all ranks , there is here a home in the truest and best sense of the word , to that large
class of single or widowed ladies , belonging to the Church of England , who are left ; to maintain themselves on the slender portion
allotted to them , when their father ' s or husband ' s home no longer exists . Here they will find the protection and comforts of a large
establishment , and be able still to enjoy the country avocations to which probably many of them have been accustomed ; their gardens ,
their schools , their visits to the poor ! Here then is plenty of useful work to be done , and so much variety of it , that each may follow
her own taste in the selection , so that she does something , and surely none would ivish to be a useless drone in such a hive of working
bees as this ! The great misery of the single woman ' s life , loneliness , can hardly be felt herefor there is little time for it where such a
, daily routine of occupation is marked out ; and having their church and school under the same roof will be an immense advantage to
many whose delicate health necessarily prevents their going out in bad weather .
Here the heart will not be let to grow cold , or a woman of a certain age become the melancholy creature described by Alfieri ,
" Loving lierself alone , because no other loves her . " I will conclude with an extract from that admirable volume ,
" The Afternoon of Unmarried Life . " "It is a very natural consequence of having no one on whom to lavish the infinite tenderness
of a womanly heart . No sensitive heart will deny that life is full of weary daysbut these need not be comfortless even in the
, * set grey life' of middle-aged women who walk through it alone . Is not our eternal life already begun ? Grief and inactivity belong
to death : we can indeed suffer ourselves to be buried in the dying things of a dying world , to remain for a length of time sleeping for
Borrow ; but this is not the lot appointed us by ' Our Father , ' not
128 A Few Wobds About The Sandweix Home.
128 A FEW WOBDS ABOUT THE _SANDWEIX HOME .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 128, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/56/
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