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224 woman's work in sanitary reform.
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" I Conclude That All Our Endowments For...
every Christian Christian an earnest society sanitary would reformer foe a " Sanitary . The morbid Association sublimation , " every
which leads some of us to devote exclusive attention to the souls of the Christianit people , to it the is neg but lect a remnant of their p of hysical medieval well-being mysticism " , is no and part the of
sooner it is y ; destroyed . the better . Those who possess an , ordinary amount of tact will not find it difficult to impart sanitary knowledge
during any of those their cottage laws of visitation courtesy , which without should being be obtrusive held sacred , or violating alike in
intercourse with peasant and peeress . In those cottages where there finest operations is a young baby b the famil y noticing doctor y , the ever visitor the saw children will " especiall find , the it a and wonderful good then plan it to bab will commence y be , " easy the
fresh to say air a , hundred wholesome useful food things and cookery , about , their cleanliness y , physical , etc . management , all of which ,
finding sonal will , if allusions _expressed and dictation , be kindl generall should y , judiciousl y well be received most y , and carefull . without All y appearance avoided unnecessary who visit , of or fault th little per eir - -
good sisters will be can done hardl ; better be found words than of advice those to of all the Rev . Charles poor y Kingsley " Visit : — whomwhenand where willbut let visits be you ; your
, , those of woman to woman . Consider to whom you go—to poor souls and soul whose and life , irit compared —and do with as yours would , is one Ibe long done mal by -aise ; instead of body of ,
, spyou clumsil rage reproaching . They and scramble hand fault have - throug finding h , life encourage a 's fall rocks . , bogs In things God , and ' ! s name thornbrakes But wh , encou yin - ,
the name y enoug of a God , of love many and justice , , poor is the lady , rolling along , the smooth turnpike-road in her comfortable carriage , to be calling
out all day long to the poor soul who drags on beside her , over hedge and ditch , moss and moor , bare-footed and weary-hearted have ,
with half-a-dozen children at her back , ' You ought not to your fallen duty here , as ; and a mother it was , very to have cowardl helped y to that lie down child there throug ; h and the it pud was
on and dle ; her inadmissible while weary , as for way ? ' sle by ep Wh ing loving y not under encourage words that , and bush her keep , , it praise is your most her reproofs , imprudent cheer her for
yourself ? * * _*¦ * * Bear in mind ( for without this all regulate visiting of the poor conduct -will to be them utterly and void in and their useless houses ) that even you to must the
your , sons inost of minute own particulars class , b Never y the very let same woman rules say which of you apply ( thoug to per ht
fatal to your all confidence , . all influence , any ) ' Yes , it is all very kind , ; but she does not behave to me as she would to one of her own quality . '
Pieiy , earnestness , adfeetionateness , eloquence , —all may be nullified and stultified by simply keeping a poor woman standing in her own
cottage while you sit , or entering her house , even at her own re-
224 Woman's Work In Sanitary Reform.
224 woman ' s work in sanitary reform .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 224, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/8/
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