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146 THE TRAINING OF FEMALE SERVANTS.
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attempts under ordinary circumstances , _* to combine industrial and intellectual training * in schools in which children are not boarded
and lodged , but which they merely attend from day to day , must end in unmitigated failure and disappointment . The advocates in
question are , it is to be feared , simply fastening a dead fish to their hookand the result will conduce as little to their satisfaction as
, Antony ' s novel device did to his . If the reasons urged in our former article entitle us to take a similar position to that assumed by
Cleopatra , when she acted the part of mentor to Antony , we would parodher addressand say to them"Gozealous educators , leave
cooking y , washing , and , household work , to , theorists in education ; your work is to develope the intellectual powers and the affections
of those whom you undertake to instruct . " We have already alluded cursorily to a plan for rearing an
improved class of female servants , namely , establishing a servants ' training school in each county , for the purpose of affording systematic
instruction in domestic duties . We repeat the word systematic very haticallybecause we would not have our readers suppose that
emp , ¦ we endorse the narrow views entertained by many persons in relation to what is termed skilled and unskilled labor . The reasons
ordinarily assigned for this distinction , are far too finely drawn and emirical . All labor is more or less skilledand to be rightly
performed p , necessitates systematic training . Hod , ge , who plods all day on Squire Fitz-Warren ' s farm
" Chill Through rain the , and stiff harvest soil that heat clogs , " his feet ,
is said to use unskilled labor , but the man who sits all day mechanicalldrilling the eyes of needles , or fixing pins' heads , is said to
y perform skilled labor . "We suspect , however , that in the course of a single dayHodge ' s avocations require a much larger amount of
, judgment , forethought , observation , and a greater play of the inventive faculty , so to speak , than the man with the pins' heads is required to
employ in a year . So also with reference to the domestic servant , her duties oblige her to exercise powers ., which in the case of a girl
who watches bobbins in a silk mill are altogether dormant . In fact the skilled laborer in the mill , might almost resign all interest in her
brain , so little is she required to use it . As we have already remarked , the training which a servant needs is essentially systematic
and experimental . We will now sketch briefly the main features of a servants '
training institution . As it is advisable to carry out a plan of this to overthrow * The exceptions the arguments to what advanced we consider in our to be March the general number rule It , do not be tend true
that in Her Majesty ' s School , in the Home Park , Windsor . , which may is simply membered a day school that , industrial this school work is carried is successfull on under y pursued extraordinar . But it circum must stances be re- . y
that Her Maj of ordinary esty ' s influence school managers among the . scholars * parents must be greater than
146 The Training Of Female Servants.
146 THE TRAINING OF FEMALE SERVANTS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1859, page 146, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051859/page/2/
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