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XXXIV.—OPEN COUNCIL.
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Xxxiv.—Open Council.
XXXIV . —OPEN COUNCIL . £ As these pages themselves are intended responsible for general for the discussion opinions , expressed the Editors /] do not hold —~ _»•
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— _nwm To the _^ Editor of the English Woman ' s Journal * 1 _Unemployed Ladies . ' '
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withou who , having t definite passed occupation the earl . y " very years of youth , find , themselves , unmarried and , but the last has been known bh
tient This first and painful fact is new observation to us , a woman long whose delicate mind y muc has
pa held her above the feeling that . to Many be unmarried is , to be miserable , has yet sunk into the grave before her natural time , the victim been of nothing the result but of a
want of interest and a sense of usefulness . That this has hed an ged unheal in th with y state duties of feeling that the we willing will mind not attempt is almost to certain deny , to for find we are them so
from somewhere whatever . Still cause the it may difficult . Perhaps y does it exist is because and the some want minds is felt are , let equal it arise to task them too litt
grea deal the impe t things We tus are of , while a proposing power small , which thing to , deal once s seem with set to in facts action and , is not capable at ghtl the of y doing present o bring a grea time ou t
Ni to criticise _T h . tingale t long too went ago severel , forth to y the the follo astonishmen mo tives which a t hol of produce all band , the those to admiring do facts a hol . world work , with Miss
g , y y , y , p comp ower le which te success they , — possess showing when of determined what heroism in a women work of are charity capable . , It was the a done and heartwith the
grea thusiastic t work g , low and of it was heroism nobl , y feels that ; it man could y a " go an , burning do likewise , "— en but
how A , work and where as ? tas holas nobleand as heroiclies close to those of whose , homes grea , in mi y , hty London , ' , very
Schools It is perhaps which are not worki are generall ng y g known well , it that is . attempted in connection to establi with sh the a District Ragged
those Visiting streets , Society and , courts which which , extending have , hitherto over the been City left to London take care , shall of include
thembe selves carried . It still is everywhere furtheruntil agreed the , influence that the good of the work upper which cld _& is ses begun working should for
t wretched he good of the lower , , shall extend to the homes of the outcast and the
civ But iliza who tio . n is to carry riht the feelin message ? H of ere " is lad the tidings diseas , " e of r sp sin read rankling the cause of d
venomousand far g more to be g dreaded than the fever hospitals , of the East ; wounds the soul of in , the its d deformity ing soldier presents a spectacle more hideous than the putrid
back As a it ppalled is to be at y supposed the magnitude , all y , . save of a the few wo laborers rk _offered in the them great ; and field thoug , draw h t certainl
mone At the y present is not moment wanting , , the those District who Visiting might g Society ive ij attached udiciousl to y the Sun y Court are . this district lies Hussell
where R societie and agged Bedford ladies s S in more S o with ls quares , has direct no , but and definite one connection other visitor occupation streets ; with yet and the squares mig Established ht cer inhabited tainly very Church be by near the found , wealth must . The be y , VOL . III . Q
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1859, page 209, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051859/page/65/
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