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MADAME LUCE, OF ALGIERS. 305
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and A it gain is , as the a school A . sile _Musulmane that wemust is in allude reality to but it . O a pen school for under children another under name seven , their first notions of elementarknowled
years and and the irls of greater a of ge , the they part regular receive of these scho here ols children . What have is the been use taken of this from new among expense y the , since boys ge ,
they they loss g to were be the attracted as school well ? to looked the . A . after sile by in a the monthl orig y inal gift institutions of money , , which and wh is y so should much
the The creche Asile ) to , or receive Infant young School children , is established whose mothers in France are ( at work like manner ; and so with true is exacted frothe mothers that
they is this reall , that y are a small at work payment ; a payment which , m however small as and a guarantee insufficient testifto to
the supp link ly the between wants of mother the child and , infant is neverth and eless as a of importance of that the , former as is y indus ing - triousand does not merely seek to get , rid of pro her little one in order that she
A may sile indul , Musulmane ge a too is common love different of idleness footing and It vagab to ondage attract . But to itself the
children whose mothers on a are very not at all accustomed . to pays worknever going out by the day , and doing next do to not nothing at home the , excep needle t , what What little interest their
houses have these may require women , as in separating y generall themselves y use from their . young children ? What servicis rendered to them bstrangers undertaking the charge ?
Must not one e rather askwithsome touch y of sadnesswhat in the world are these poor women to do with , leisure , so _acquired ? When , one reflects on the
faci strictions degraded litfor position to divorce which hel th and ey d b t are he y women tolerance subjected under afforded in the the moral Mahommetan to their and misconduct reli creed gious , life at , the at is not the
retoo muc y h to state that , maternal love isin default of all other sentiment , sthe it best let and us deepest leave them spring the of act care ion of left their to , them own . infants Let us not and then let seek us not to weaken attract ,
children ; to our schools until they are old enough to p , rofit by intellectual and moral questions W observat e teaching hope . , We M ions , . offered le lay Prefet before We to , could their that you m you w sustain inds ith w confidence ill and these attentivel their observations hearts and y conviction examine . by th the ese more result diff amp erent s of
our . detailsbut we think we have said enough to induce you to give attentive care of the to , lower the subject class . For have us , iven the exp us erience a profound of real bel life ief , and in the of the regenerating sufferings
for virtue mos t women labor , , and and es its , above super g iority all for over Mores intellectual ques ; and teaching in summin , str g ictl up y so her cal e l ed ,
desires Istly , . That the crit A iq . sile ue , we is but would a school again repeat under : — another without name , and that to the the
reorgan public original . ized s We chools . ask 2 ndl have therefore y . suffered The workshop that from it its shall once being either formed opened be part suppressed , of the school any or gain comp , and letel has y when the school is of the
be former no se without parate ly exercised claim inconvenience to within existence its reunited bounds . to 3 the rdly . first The ( second a deprived lways g taking irls' schoo care industry l mi that ght
since Mademoiselle thdii Chevallier ithere be h not b thrown no on increas one e side , in , ) th since e number figures prove of that ils
of onl the y an conductrices increase e vson in the to take expenses a the s young een . 4 thl gir y . ls to We and demand fro ; and the re 5 thl -establishment yand pup above ,
allthat the needlework should be encouraged and developed as , much as , possible . before and remai
Such , M . le Prefet , are the thoughts which we lay you : n with much respect . Signed for the Committee
, Baronne de _Cijry . Alger , Dec . 7 , 1858 .
VOL . VII . Z
Madame Luce, Of Algiers. 305
MADAME LUCE , OF ALGIERS . 305
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 305, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/17/
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