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    OPEN COUNCIL. 211

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    To The Editor Of The English Woman''S Jo...

    Were they what the name would but imp not ly , expert could in all fashion the app garment lications out of the of

    household a needle length , they of work cloth mig , their ht or find stitch intense emp at loy poverty more , than shuts some one them portion alway of s out a whole a from : the and know as to

    ledge I of in common their , calamity furniture a door or decent opened habits for ah . honored welcome to a new

    comwithout munity see to Will such app ladies ly themselves as , having themselves to fitting a these pressure poor from distressed within or for from the

    accurate the same leading . I , practicability will distinction not attempt . , than The to sketch distinetiveness in the my presumption idea in in detail this of from having , but any rather at plan first to I dwell arrived am aware upon at of isthat the instructors well the instructed shall be intendingemigrants

    of the , rank of gentlewomen as ; and as , beginning their duties the necessary time _, before through leaving the port , and shall until carry sanctioned them on , dispersion only modified in the b colony y circumstances . For this ,

    voyage , this scheme side ( as the for most any other important ) an establi . Suppose shment one here capable and there of and containin is six necessary lad g thirty ; on .

    persons riors and in teachers the proportion . The twenty of twenty -four -four could of not the all poorest at once , be learning y cook supe- - ing and housemaid ' s work . We know that two pairs of hands created directed bsuch by a

    household competent head and in anything each dep fictitious artment , is could mischievous do all the . work Twenty should y , there a - colony fore , be . engaged All , must at take remunerative turns at household employment work upon and arti schooling cles saleable must in have the

    dail Of y the attention six ladies from two all _. must be qualified as housekeepers , , to teach and superintend the cooks and , housemaids , two the schooling themselve , two the emp to loyment learn , say

    fessional needle-work . The . To lady be housekeeper qualified they must must go first throug set h a course s in the cooking as proclass if she has not been in bond Jlde practice at home : she schoolmistress can see , or must may

    have learn seen from , a enoug national h there or a of normal housemaid school ' s the ways art : of the commanding lady attention and , out imparting and apportioning to several at mig once ht . be From obtained some and private ladies outfitter generall hints have for cutting notions "

    , y would should and knowled find successivel read ge of y their sale in there own the about mi colony ht ladies . be Thoug convenience ' and h children the in whole ' a s clothing portion establishment , of which each go g

    rank In wh and atever class order remaining or number y , , and they the entered fillings the -up colony need , not such be ladies simultaneous would be . welcomed for their and for their worksakewhich would commend

    own ' s them to the resident families . _^ exercise This trul much y woman ' s in work its object would and be arduous endThe , but househol rewarding d would even be in not its

    teaching unlike those , was of not olden mor by insulate e time , when d professors people , " were but . by few the in seniors this hemisp and superiors here , and of

    what noble some and p of rivate these houses undertook . How , may lig be ht guessed the extent from of one the of task Lockhart I propose ' s beau , to - tiful translationsand I recall " The Lady Alder , " to mark the order of

    rank compatible with , surveillance and good fellowship . " In her bower sits the lady who shall "be Sir Boland ' s bride ,

    Three hundred damsels with her , her bidding to abide ; All clothed in the same fashion , both the mantle and the shoon , All eating at one tablewithin her hallat noon ;

    , , All , save the Lady Alder , she is lady of them all , — She keeps her place upon the dais , and they serve her in her hall ; The thread of gold a hundred spinthe lawn a hundred weave

    , , And a hundred ply sweet melody , in Aider ' s ' bower at eve . "

    A . Er

    Open Council. 211

    OPEN COUNCIL . 211

• Citation
  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1860, page 211, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051860/page/67/