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WORK IN WHICH WOMEN ARE DEFICIENT. 191
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menial in her establishment . We ask many a young" mother if she had the smallest idea when " baby " first came into tlie world
how to wash , dress , or manage him herself ? If she , on the contrary , from her utter ignorance on this subjectand the dread of injuring
, her offspring from really not knowing how to manage him , has not over and over again deputed the reins of nursery government into who
the hands of some practised head nurse or experienced woman , , it and may has be made , has a only allowed slave of her the to poor see loving her baby doting at stated , ignorant intervals , and ,
misjudging mother very . Ah ! if only she had , taken a few lessons in her mother ' s nursery "when she was a girl ; if she had been le food
something by taug infants ht the ; few of if their she simp had le constitutions medicines learnt something , and ; if still she more had of their known simp little only ailments required how to ,
feed , dress , and handle a baby , all this trouble and anxiety about Ker own ones had surely never fallen upon her ! And you ,
oh cooked ! young dinner young wives scomfortless , whose husbands roomsand look want black of upon general you household over
illarrangement , do , you not sometimes , wish that you had devoted a few hours less to practising music every day , and instead , had followed ive her orders
your to learning make mother thereb the into best y the the and relative kitchen greatest qualities when variet she y of of beef went food and to out mutton g of the , and cooked how ,
joints with advantage or small ends a lesson of meat out ? Do of you the not housemaid think you ' s book might ; have or do taken you
hold fancy linen that is knowing kept well how repaired to make would a bed infallibl , or seeing y have th destr at the oyed house your
-, 66 prestige" in the eyes of the worldly and the fashionable ? But we hear our married friends exclaiming , _" What is the use of
our as an keep echo ing young to servants this sentim if they ent cannot conies do in these the voice things of for the us vexed ? " hus And
band , " What is the use of keeping a wife as head of nay establishment if she does not even know how to direct her own servants _?"
Then steal in arguments , upbraidings , retaliations , and tlie matter perchance is settledeither by the married couple continuing to live
, on in ignorance and discomfort , or else by the husband's taking the reins of government into his own hands , or intrusting them
to some housekeeper in whose judgment he places greater confidence than he does in his own wife ' s .
There is we believe an . old saying , " If you want to see a thing done well , you must thoroughly understand it yourself ; " and another
that says , " Trust no one , but if you desire a thing do it for yourself . " At lished any rate , it ladies is very have certain to learn that these many har hig d hl truths y elegant throug and h accom bitter
them by p experiences a little as young we knowled conceive after marriage ge for before the , whi married ; and ch m yet i state ght we all , train and have to our been be daug polished sp ht ared ers orna them to fit
ments of society . Poor girls ! how little they dream that the lover
Work In Which Women Are Deficient. 191
WORK IN WHICH WOMEN ARE DEFICIENT . 191
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1859, page 191, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051859/page/47/
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