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328 ANNALS OF NEEDLEWOMEN.
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IiXIV.—ANNALS OF ¦ NEEDLEWOMEN".
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The Education Of The Female Sex Is One O...
take tlie less painful and difficult work of managing the . schools for 1 irls .
young Now g , such a change in the present order of things may be effected , I stated in a paper read "before another section of this Association
last year , entitled " What shall we do with our Pauper Children ? " I also stated it in my evidence before the Poor Law Committee last
year . It does not fall within the province of the present paper to discuss it ; but only , after considering the principles of the education
of pauper girls , to express the strong conviction that this cannot be carried out efficientlyeither as regards the country or the children ,
except by voluntary , benevolent and Christian agencies , combined , as in the case of schools for juvenile delinquents , with inspection
and pecuniary aid from the Government .
The Lodge House , May 12 , 1862 .
328 Annals Of Needlewomen.
328 _ANNALS OF NEEDLEWOMEN .
Iixiv.—Annals Of ¦ Needlewomen".
_IiXIV . —ANNALS OF ¦ NEEDLEWOMEN" .
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ANNE AND HEE SISTER . I have selected the following narrative from among the many
records of adversity left upon my hands by those who have passed through our establishmentnot so much as a proof of the satisfactory
results which followed the _^ interference of our Society , as to warn those who , entrusted with the care of young people , shake off their
own responsibilities , and , without sufficient inquiry , depute to others the most sacred duties of life .
When we read of or visit the asylums provided for the protection of the erring , when we commiserate the position of tlie overcrowded
tenants of our unions , or glance our eye over the j _> aragraphs in printwhere large figures announce the amount of our pauper
population , , we do not , I think , sufficiently realize what a large proportion of these numbers are drawn from the educated and
upper classes of society . There are hundreds , nay thousands , whose sin and misery may be traced to the neglect of careless parents ,
educated ( as it is termed ) without one true element of education in their training . Young people quit childhood and enter on youth _,
strengthened by no single principle by which temptation may be overcome . Left to themselves , they fall into folly , or worse , into
crime ; and then , instead of being plucked from the danger by the gentle hand of love , pride stands between them and their natural
protectors , and with no opening for accepted repentance they become outcasts from home , and have no resource but to plunge
into the full gulf of glittering but deceitful sin .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1862, page 328, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071862/page/40/
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