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OPEN COUNCIL. 209
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To the Editors of the- English Woman''s ...
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To The Editors Of The English Woman's Jo...
furnish the information requested you will benefit your readers generally , and confer a favor on your correspondent , ' ¦ NB
. . ANSWERS TO THE ABOVE CONCERNING GHEEL . 1 There was in 1860 no Protestant pastor at _G-lieel ; the number of
. Protestants 2 . French being and German apparentl are y too the small two current for the support languages of ; one we . are not aware in what way patients ignorant of either language would receive
communications 3 . . The There details are of probabl every- y day Eng life lish at interpreters Gheel can onl . y be learnt by . visiting the place 4 M ; but Jules the journ Duval ey ' s is book neither is written long nor in expensive French . . An account of Gheel
. . was 1859 , however ; also in , the _jjublished Journal in of the Ph Asy ysiolog lum Journal ical Medicine for April , edited , 1858 b , y and Dr January . Forbes also ,
appeared Winslow ditto , 5 th , in the of the October numb Dail er , y ( being Office Scotsman , that Hig of of h Street the January 5 th , Edinburg and , 1857 11 . th h Articles . ) of Septemb on Gheel er , 1857 ; and letter
5 . Dr . Bulckens is the chief medical officer of Gheel , any addressed to him would doubtless find him . M . _DuvaFs book may be procured one should from think Guillamin of sending , 14 , Rue a patient de Hichelieu to Gheel , Paris without . But taking we repeat the trouble that no to
inspect personally the plan pursued in the colony . *
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OPEN COUNCIL . 209
To The Editors Of The- English Woman''S ...
To the Editors of the- English Woman' ' s Journal . Observations on a few Observers of the Victoria Press .
Certain Ladies ly , among the wonders of the present day the "Victoria Press in claim the s printing a position trade . Some will " never wonder answer how it printing will get always on , " others _ivas " done think b women y men
and " will always get on will , " never be . " g Those ive their persons firm op who , inion if " it wonder fails on the " Ah subject how any until new ht it they scheme would see
never which answer turn the it scheme is not the is likel sort y of to thing take ; that is wanted — " ; " , I but thoug if it succeeds , at " Well the time , I thoug " , and ht from those the first it who would think succeed " men ; always I remarked were in it to the so printing -and-so
; persons have new trade . possessed , and I question always opinions whether will be like , those " generall theirs persons , and y give when would the printing have same liked op was inion our first on forefathers in everything troduced to
to have _^ discouraged it , because printing never was _, nor ever would be , in existence . This printing office is now established , and has been ive in their full emp inions
loyop respecting ment inions for they it a . year were The . trade ; Persons in one gave of theirs can the now long papers venture before they any to remarked one g else , would to , and show op strange die how off
like at thoroug printing birds hly in useless should winter the die , " certainl like scheme birds y they would in used winter be , women a poetical I cannot at simile _printing fathom , but I wh could y " women well
printing understand offices it if where the youn notwithstanding g girls were the to , work quantity in ' the of gas generality they . burn of , venti men ' s -
lation from the of any kind and , from is never , the breaths thought of of so ; and what individuals with the the impurities air they arising inhale many
rooms must necessaril like gas those , y be of the very Victoria injurious Press ; but I when cannot they see work any , in reason well-ventilated why they
should " die off'like birds in winter . " I have , also heard some printers remark that women " have not sufficient intellect or education to become compositors there does not anything
requiring , _'' from so what great I an hav intellect . e seen of or printing education , ; they work from seem manuscript , vox . vii . q
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1861, page 209, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051861/page/65/
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