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140 OPEN COUNCIL.
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To the Editor of the English Woman?8 Jou...
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To The Jeditoir Of The English Woman 1 S...
and convenient ; the rates at which washing" will be undertaken seem patron moderate and ; and supporters the names followe of the d b Bishop long of list London of subscribers and Lord Shaftesbury to the charity as
seem to s augur a future , of usefulness y a and success to the Girls' Laundry , West , which End House in this , ne particular ar Hampstead . fix I fifteen do not as doubt the earliest the excellence at which of the reasons irls are
case age g received strictions , nor the can class the of payment girls in whom be called my experience too large leads ; and me yet to , with take these a special
reinterest It is lamentable , would , scarcel to think y be reached how few . and solitary are the cases which these
valuable around us institutions and therefore can rescue I am from more the inclined great to sea wish of that want some and training ignorance in ;
household and domestic work were combined with the last two years' instrucdomestic tion given training to girls and in their our future poor career schools is . so The obvious connection of , that the the betwe parents for en mi such such ght
cle be ar thereb future y induced advantages to relinquish as even they the could petty discern gains ; while present the more , remote connection between " book learning " and future wages and position , is far
prej too vague udices— and perh indistinct aps too old to - wei fashioned gh with for them your . pages And — so le far ad my me old to sympathise -fashioned with them . the children of school to
I have lately seen answers written by a poor hension questions and in would algebra have and been grammar considered , which b were eyond utterl the y understanding beyond my compre of any
mation ordinary these woman in my irls youthful were to days , out and as armed servants with - of- this all -work valuable with infor no - poor ggo
notion , of how to boil a potato , or make mutton broth , * or cut out a , frock , or to
wash undertake a bab . y , But or in the fact proverbial perform garrulity any one of of the old dutie age s is they leading were me expected to trestoo much on valuable spaceand I will nowthereforeonly sign
pass your , , , myself Your ¦ An Constant Octo & Reader en awlan , _.
140 Open Council.
140 OPEN COUNCIL .
To The Editor Of The English Woman?8 Jou...
To the Editor of the English Woman ? 8 Journal , Madam , I was meditating a letter on the subject of female hair-dressers She , when is I
ri found ht in that attacking I had been the present forestalle system d by your , but correspondent I am sure she " A is . " quite wrong quite in blaming a g thickly the -peop men led for country it . It like is . this a thing , that filled unheard a space -of should and be else not left to who empty be at expected the because in ,
time forsooth does , it not would think be it more worth properl her while y to take by some one step one towards , it . There same is inventing no special tawdry providence bonnets for and lazy waiting people , for and husbands if women , we must will expect dawdle still about to ablebodied with terrible moustaches
look cutting on ends the ab of surd hair sp from ectacle the of heads of - defenceless men women and children . But it is not who the ought men who to be deserve in their our place contempt earning on an honest these occasions livelihood , it but is who the
women , prefer waiting for the " coining man " in a life of idleness and degradation . I wish from my heart that in the planning of a girl's future life , matri she
would mony c make ould a be better left out wife of at the last . calculation The momentous altogether " offer ; I " am would convinced find her not dreamingbut working well ared for the ecial duties of the
, ; as prepsp it married ; and , state if not , as an the adept generality in _^ housekeep of those ing who , at do least nothing in but that look state forwar of mind d to for the
which would make her apt acquiring necessary knowledge . I am Your , Madam obedient , servant ,
A . S ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 140, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/68/
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