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28 i open council.
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To the JEditor of the English Woman's Jo...
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upon this subject , I at last devised tlie following scheme . It is a small bep g orters inning , of but my it school may grow , which . I , b thoug elongs ht to it a very large possible and influential that among dissenting the sup _~ lt heads f
congregation , I might find a dozen or twenty benevoenwomen , o house households girls . I proposed day , who in would each undertake lad eek y should d th the take teaching one ho g w irl t of , and house work let - work her done come to and as to many assist her
one every w , anere see , own in it personal as far as friends her ability , and would was warm go . ly I responded mentioned to . this I next plan got first tKe among sanction my donehave been
careful of the servant manag as to is where i kept ng commi I and send where ttee the , and I g know irls the , generall that thing the was y mistress preferrin . herself g I houses looks where well very bu to t
in hitherto the one this ways way been of one her day household , a ati week factory . for Several the I last he girls three good have months now accounts been , and of steadil them the y result emp from loye has the d
proud ladies with of their whom very new they accomp s are s p lishments laced .. , and . ar One the g tells irls me themselves she " can are now not wait a little the at
table without making any mistakes ; " another " can scrub a floor ; " anor taken " can clean from their plate school ; " another lessons " has is but made small a pudding and , in " order and so that on . the The direct time ;
object of their attendance at school may not be interfered with , I make it a nation sine qud in the that things no absolutel girl " goes out" until h she shou can ld pass l a satisfactory vizshe mus exami t read
y necessary se earn , ., arithmetic fluently , write as far neatl as compound y from dictation divisionmake with a c bill orrect of p sp arce elling ls , and -work sew sums neatly in .
The consent of their parents I require , in writing . I have , had two refusals from fathers } none from mothers . whether
these To what children extent will my ever plan become will succeed domestic remains servants to : be but seen let , this and be also as it may , they cannot help being the better for the lessons they have already learnt
and I hope have yet to learn . vants I believe is to be one found great in cause the growing of the deficiency dislike to of the the supp of ly life of domestic The factory
serholds out more inducements , better wages , and a way larger liberty . —I speak of town in life— a worth and girls famil who mi consider ght become themselve respectable s too and nteel resp and ected prefer servants the ge
many y y , , induce white In the slavery teache hope of that and the that man dress these -maker ers few of ' schools s hints life . as to to consider what is possible the subject to be well done , may
rs ag I remain , dear Madam , truly yours , , J . S .
28 I Open Council.
28 i open council .
To The Jeditor Of The English Woman's Jo...
To the JEditor of the English Woman ' s Journal , few words fobtook g g lbxs
a , youn . Madam , educated The idea and is , now treated beginning as nonentitie to get s abroad but that that their girls capabilities ought no longer , whatever to be
they circles they young may hear where girls be and , is had no to such under better be change dep wh be lored at developed of influences ; op and inion , and when they has made we taken spend consider the p best their lace wh , of the time . at But conversation condition and in those their of »
to frivolity talents good be . assailed , Their we ; , the can greatest hope from hardl of y , excellence wonder indeed point , that their and till distinction their the only friendless days safety , wherever flee is in away victim mediocrity it and is finding found see and but , neither is little mere sure
the her support advantages nor le of relief those , and on around every resolving any hand her to . , , is frame fain her to purchase conduct _XDeace by no , b lii y g relin her law quishing than examp
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 284, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/68/
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