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Vol. III. May 1, 1859. No. 15.
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XXXV.—THE TRAINING- OF FEMALE SERVANTS.
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The
THE
ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNAL
PUBLISHED MONTHLY .
Vol. Iii. May 1, 1859. No. 15.
Vol . III . May 1 , 1859 . No . 15 .
Xxxv.—The Training- Of Female Servants.
XXXV . —THE TRAINING- OF FEMALE SERVANTS . No II .
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with , that charming _glow of fancy which distinguishes every page day he wrote and had , relates ill success a laughable which story in the of ,. Antony presence . of He Cleopatr was fishing a he one
regarded as a disgrace ; he , therefore ordered one of his assistants to dive and put upon his hook such fish as he had previously caught .
This scheme he put in practice three or four times and Cleopatra perceived it . She affected , however , to be much surprised at his
them success all , expressed to see new her proofs wonder of it to on the the peop following le near day her . , and "When invited that
had day let came down , the his vessel line was she crowded ordered with one peop of her le , and most as skilful soon as divers Antony to
descend and put a salt , fish upon his hook . Antony not suspecting the trick thus played off upon him , and thinking he had motionles caught his
fish , drew the hook up his which line occasioned , when , behold no small a dead mirth fish among hung the spectators . s upon " _Go-eneral" , said Gleopatra " leave fishing to us petty princes of
, g ,, Pharus and Canopus ; your game is cities , kingdoms , and provinces . " This anecdote contains something which is not altogether unlike
the day position schools taken attended up by by the the advocates children of of industrial the lower training classes . in Those
weekadvocates assert , that to such children mere book-learning is worthless . Its worthlessness they argue is attested by the early age at
which they quit school . A more attractive bait to tempt parents to prolong their children's education is needed , and that bait , say they ,
must be training in industrial employments , in cooking , washing , household advocates of work such , and training the like 1 are . most We admit irreprehensible that the int , that entions their of zeal the
not is in so the large highest an amount degree of commendable zeal in a good , and cause certainl that y it the can world afford has to
disparage a single grain of the little it possesses . We believe , however , as we endeavored to prove in a recent article , that all
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1859, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051859/page/1/
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