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O^EN COUNCIL. 283
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XLIV.—OPEN COUNCIL.
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turbulent passions and elevate the social position of the merry millers of old England .
As these tales are portrayals of life in its semi-civilised state , and in a southern clime , there is much that will shock the propriety of
our northern habits . But such incidents as are necessary to the evolutions and the moral of the tale , are sketched with a delicacy
and refinement that _rol > s them of all that is offensive . At the same time they point clearly to the necessity for regeneration in the
classes for whom they are destined .
O^En Council. 283
O _^ _EN COUNCIL . 283
Xliv.—Open Council.
XLIV . —OPEN COUNCIL . £ As these pages themselves are intended responsible for general for the discussion opinions , expressed the Edit . ] ors do not hold
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? - _^ B » To the Editor of the English Woman ' s Journal . _Tkaii 5 _tngc fobFemale Servants .
Madam , ,, on Having Training read Schools the article for Servants _T > y " Alban , I am , " induced in the March to make number known of your throug Journal h your ,
pages , if you will allow me a little space , a plan I have lately organized for the same object . that largest I have time manufacturing had have the seen charge with towns pain of an in how Eng elementary little land it for is in g more irls the ' day than school seven of the in years best one managed , and of the in
day school to prepare girls for the practical duties power of everyday life . The most to give one the can power accomp to lish make , besides a shirt reading , darn , a writing stocking , and , or a perhaps little arithmetic put a patch __ , is
day neatl school y into , an and old _unceasing garment labor . This is re is quired all the on industrial the part training of the mistress possible even in a to ixLans effect for thus the introduction much for a of per Domestic -centage Economy of her ever as a chang branch ing of pup stud ils . in Many our
y schools for the poor have been talked over ; Her Majesty ' s Most Honorable it Privy , but Council as yet no on one Education sees a ! feasible recommend way it of , Her doing Maj it . esty Theoretical ' s Inspectors teaching advise ,
even Manuals with to the boot aid , of is Miss of about Brewster as , much and F use . Tegetmeier as lecturing , and upon all the penman _Einchley ship , never illustrated a pen being never by being touched engravings put by into the of the fingers needles hand . , — thimbles Neither or an elaborat , do and 1 scissors believe e treatise , such in on kitchens instruments needlework and
dress laundries engaged attached as professors to school-rooms , for as , even to the supposing mistress a skilful teaching cook cookery and a laun and - is girl washing a s clear are , boarded with impossibility her and school lod . - ged And room and even duties the , as direct and I have pup object seen il teachers , in is institutions to to train train them , where the for thin do the g -
mesti school c is service a house , the and result in a house lias , been only can notable house failure -work : be for taught this . reason That , — girls no in the lower classes , should learn anything of good housewifery in their own
homes , no one can expect vrlio knows anything of the internal economy of luxury an artizan and ' s . . _extravagance residence in a in , large good times tpwn . , alternating With some with honorable , debt and exceptions privation ,
in How hard then times are , and the dirt girl and s in disorder the class at of all life times in , which are the we usual expect state to of find things our .
domestic servants to be taught tlieir work ? After pondering mucli and long
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 283, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/67/
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