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356 OPEN COUNCIL.
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To the Editor of the English Woman 9 s J...
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To The Editor Of The English Woman's Jou...
For the honor , of women let it not be said that they ever delight to cry let down them their profit younger by examp sisters le , and and amend if there quickly be any the who error are guilty of their of ways so doin . _g
I remain , Madam , Yours obediently , A _Lokdonee _.
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356 Open Council.
356 OPEN _COUNCIL .
To The Editor Of The English Woman 9 S J...
To the Editor of the English Woman s Journal .
Training _Schools pou Female _Servants . - Madam ,
1 st I , should had answered have thoug and ht the antici very pated sensible all questions article under as to this " head How , far of March it is practicable in ordinary elementary ( day ) schools to train girls in industrial
work , such as 'washing , general laundry work , cooking , and household matters : " but in the following number the inquiry was again mooted in the form of a wish , ' * That some training 7 in household and domestic work were
combined with the last two yearsinstruction given to girls in our poor schools . " Myself a worker and observer of long standing , I reiterate , in the words of the author , " In every way there are almost insuperable
difficulties in the way of combining the industrial and intellectual training of such girls as merely attend school from day to day , and are not boarded and lodged in the establishment in which they receive their ( book ) education , "
ob and servations I refer to . his plain reasons for this conclusion , and venture to add a few The want of materiel is apparent , but the greater desiderata of time and
teachers dail effected y roug by less h rewards floor so . -sweep Yet to the so ing much girls , and capable greater monthly of are or executing more they rare than it floor , their the -scouring former time being , , th are a valu t th y e
able to their mothers ; whilst sweeping the . walls and cleaning the windows are periodically performed by the trade , as the safest and most economical there under proceeding dertaken , which the b same . Where a is deputation done command the at an infant , from expense I ha school v e th of other o is ten ug ht pounds close but and proximity proposed per proposal annum that to has , the mi the been senior ght cleaning be over , un and - -
y , ruled it will by be better understood authority if . remembered As to the want that the of time scholars on the are teacher seldom 's fewer part , than one hundred and , fifty , for whom she has not usually an assistant equal
to herself , her helpers being only class monitors or pupil teachers ; ( which as better regards than the the school former interest , so much is the is same taken ; , for out b of y as the much available as the strength latter may of the be
mistress twenty-four ;) and in _fasro the hours days , out of of assembl the seven y being . five , exceptionally six , of the Government returns show that most of the children leave before the age of
eleven , I have observed that about half the number are renewed in the course are of the of year bodil : therefore strength not or a of sixth sufficientl , say twenty mature out of understanding one hundred and to learn fifty ,
y y favored household above work the . "Were restas it otherwise the practicable of continuance , should we s , for these lect the already onl chances of giving the great , remainder power as well as themselves prove , neg the art of read y -
ing and writing , which makes communion , with each other a , , nd their betters ; or habit of s imp of ord arting er , regularity , by , the rest , p atience of the pers disci _everance pline , th a nd t int refl elli ection gence which and those will
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1859, page 356, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071859/page/68/
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