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OST THE EDUCATION OF PATJPEK GIRLS. 327
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The Education Of The Female Sex Is One O...
visitorsbecomes a true home . But these exceptions only prove the rule . Even , in well-managed workhouse schools , quite separated from
the adult paupers , the girls look listless , and in a very inferior condition to the boys : this I have myself observed ; nor , if the principles
here laid down are admitted , is it at all difficult to assign the reason for this . If there is any connexion between the workhouse
for adult paupers and that for children , none can tell what contamination is the consequence ; what influences are imbibed , . even by
young children , who are placed for care with female paupers , it be of the lowest character . A pauper element is infused into
them may from earliest childhood—an element devoid of all that is good , or would defend from evil in , the female sex . Hence the appalling
fact which was revealed in a recent Parliamentary return , that during the ten years ending December 31 , 1860 , 1 , 736 young
girls returned to the _worklioLise—being double the number of boys _; and 1 , 896 returned , not from misconduct , but to become a burden
on the country . In January , 1859 , there were ( as stated in the Poor Law Report , p . 189 ) 12 , 353 illegitimate pauper children .
This awful fact speaks for itself . Are we going to rear up these twelve thousand infants as we reared their mothers ? and as we
reared the multitudes of wretched girls who did not return to the facts workhouse ht , to but be found widel their known way b to the penitentiaries countryand and then gaols we ? believe Such
that the oug country would y demand y an entire alteration , of the whole systemNo alliatives will avail to cure a system which is based
-on an entirel . y p false principle . No home feeling can exist in any institution in which voluntary Christian effort does not infuse some
of . that love which was appointed by the Creator to be the very atmosphere of childhood . No guardians appointed to administer
poors' rates ought ever to manage schools for the children . No men , however wise and good , ought to superintend institutions from
for young girls . The children ought all to be separated adult paupers , and begin life anew free from reproach ; and the management of them should be committed to benevolent and
enlightened women , under whose direct control all officials should be We placed shall . be told that it will be impossible to find voluntary
work workers , as among that * of the manag female ing sex schools who will for all undertake the pauper so g enormous irls in the a
country . A similar difficulty was made ten years ago , when we , the the voluntary criminal children workers , , who aske were d the becoming Government an increasin to give into g burden our care to
the country in gaols . The Government gave us the needed authority and pecuniary aid , and there has been no lack of manaor teachers adapted to the work . Women have _Tbeen making
gers a rapid advance during the last ten years in the power of working for themselves and othersNumbers of ladies have already devoted
. - themselves to workhouse visiting , and will doubtless be ready to
Ost The Education Of Patjpek Girls. 327
_OST THE EDUCATION OF PATJPEK GIRLS . 327
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1862, page 327, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071862/page/39/
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