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424 OPEN COUNCIL.
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LXII.—OPEN COUNCIL.
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The Journal Of The Ivorhhouse Visiting S...
. " Close to her is one who has entirely lost the use of her limbs , and is always sitting in the same position ; she has not for years left the ward she even
to a constant attend the aad service regular , thoug attendant h her d at eli church ght is . to _Not talk one of the of time all her when relations was is that left to surrounds visit her . her And she thoug finds h refreshment she is often in sorel constant y grieved reading at the and conversation especially
, , in Sundays listening . When to the this chap afternoon lain on reading his weekl was y first visits established and to , the she visitor expressed on her her to gratitude bear the for the ' heavy means trials of grace of her , ' as lot she during called the it , week and said Two it enabled in this
many . war servant d are ; blind now she ; one onl of y looks whom forward is a middle to spending -aged woman the rest , once of her a respectable life in the union . No employment is provided for the blindand to such persons life
the must " first H indeed . is London another be blank hosp servant itals and , dreary was a young dismissed . woman as who incur , after able , . being She a has year now in been one of a
yearand a lialf in this union , , and is never likely to be well enough for service _^ ; she is an orphan , and has no relations who could and keep her .
hel " less There from are rheumatism two others who in their have hands been servants one had , been are in now a lace perfectl nine y p ; p
years . old " , In probabl the y sick dy ward ing from with the twenty effects -five of hoop women ing- is coug a little h . She child has , and seven no father years ,
and her mother is in prison , _biit she was moaning in her sleep , calling piteously for her mother . idiotic and afflicted with fits
" Here are also two other childrenboth ; hel '' pless Such and cases pitiable miht objects be multi , but lied no oth b , er hundreds asylum will these receive come them within . the gpy ;
visit knowled still suppose of the ge of chap that one lain the visitor , can weekl . suffice y Can inspection for these the * fact comfort of s the be of known guardian such ? sufferers s and , and if the , so knowing , weekl can we y ,
Surel as we do the in want too many of some cases , additional the kind of superintendence nurses who are and provided care must for them long ? since y have presented itself to those who have had any experience of these
institutions . " And this want would "be best supplied by the admission of
educated women as visitors .
424 Open Council.
424 OPEN COUNCIL .
Lxii.—Open Council.
LXII . —OPEN COUNCIL . [ As these pages themsel are ves intended responsible for general for the discussion opiiiiuiis expressed , the Edi . tors _J do not hold
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but Much although has been most said wr and iters written and latel _sj : > y eakers of the beg Hi in ghts with and Wrongs the same of "Women ridicule , of what are called strong-minded women and fast young ladies declaration , they all that , as
far the We as chief have our duties no knowled _^ wish and ge ( occupations in extends an _equall , close of y women general with the are way sam at ) home to e general contradict as wives this and decision mothers , d , .
there but would are such inquire phenomena , What ) or are unsuccessful our duties men as wives , as widows of feeble or sing -minded le women ( an ,
t all > keep of whom themselves may have , or husband who _woiild s , father be prevented s , brothers succeeding , or sons totall in business y unable or
_settling happily in life , by a heavy burthen o £ helpless women ?
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 424, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/64/
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