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148 THE TRAINING OF FEMALE SERVANTS.
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of A quaint preserv writer es , but says without . , " The her sun , little seem weaknesses s to shine nowhere and famil think so y bri pride that ght .
as in a country churchyard on a Sunday morning . " "We bri was the g life ht spent as of it with ladies was their in of days the domestics hi of g yore her , classes in when attending a in large England to portion household , never of their seems duties view time so .
Active of life emp seldom loyment could must their have minds led them become to take morbid a very and health artificial y . ; Without point doubt of view they lo and oked yet at had every all thing that in trembling a practical delicacy , common and
sense , sensibility which peculiarly belong to their sex . There is a common ground on which mistresses should often meet their themselves servants from as one ,
and surprised don earl e y that to hour their is to in domestic find tastes the matters drawing as dut by y some ; often -room but unerring when come , and they to expect mechani a seclude dead that -lock sm everything , they ; for must it is will not a fact an be be
that canand young of servants course being now- thus a-days handed are left over to pretty pick up much habits to chance as they ,
they schools , acquire in which bad they habits were . In in such structed cases are , as unjustl mig y ht accused be expected of having , the howeverevidentlrests
unfitted them for their position ; the fault , , y with We mistresses had written . thus farwhen the friends with whom we had
was taken laid up aside our abode . To for what a week a , piercing proposed , blustering a walk , and wind our , does manuscri March pt
introduce us . We suspect that a variable climate like ours , is not just the one to make a race of calmcontemplative philosophers .
, However , we sallied out and seemed faced the to blast : the sun two shone out
full behind usso that we experience opposite climates at the , same time . We turned , into the village street , which there found its
one end of which was open to the sea ,
148 The Training Of Female Servants.
148 THE TRAINING OF FEMALE SERVANTS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1859, page 148, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051859/page/4/
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