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420 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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led " ' The ' deserve Ladies s ' _National notice in Association this place 51 for , its the ' Diffusion principal of object Sanitary being Know 1 the - tion of the health of children " peculiarlwell suited
to preserva ive instruction on domestic h . _iene Women and are to their exertions y and influence g chiefly mus ' t we look for the yg teaching , of the laws of health to the
household working Miss _Nig -classes htingale hiene . , ' It is for is concerned the to women applic ' ation If that the of we obj sanitary must ects look of kno this first wled Association and ge , last as / far say are as s
b carrie enli d ou htening t with yg th judgment and of . discretion land on , it the cannot means fail of to do preserving much good the ,
heal y th g of their families e women , and instructing Eng them in the management of their children . But it is not blectures and tracts that this can be effected .
mothers and The latter intelli in may the upper be to ver and understand y useful middle y to classes the them members of but society the of , working the who Association have -classes time , to can and read be to ,
gence ; effec own tuall homes y taught and there only b instru y personal cting in them tercourse in all , — that by relates visiting to them the sanitary at their
managemen delicately g , i t ven of on their the spot households , will make . a Personal deeper and advice more , lasting thus kindl impression y and
that than , many along lec wi tures th the and mothers volumes , the of daug tracts hters ; and may it a will t the often same happen time receive also ,
confined a useful to lesson sanitary . By subjects such visiting , the , greatest conducted benefit with may discretion be conferred and tact on , and the working-classes . Visitors , themselves thoroughly instructed in the
princip muc les h of to sanitary promote science the health , and and takin comfort g charge of the of defined people , districts by making , could them do I There acquain believ is ted a be large with no wan field the t of of causes usefulness educated of disease open ben , evolent to and the the Association women means in of , all an its d prevention there ts of will the , . par
coun its objects try , , read . y , and even anxious , , to devote their time , to the fulfilment of of * an l How acquaintance strongly Dr with . Combe Ph ' ysiology s experience and impressed the constitution him with of the the necessity infant
the work frame following , being in the made earnest hop an e that appeal essential it , which may part attract I have of female transferred inore education general from attention , the , appears body in of from thi the s
place : — leaving Till " this c In out defect no what point be oug of remedied ht view to constitute is , t it housan possible an ds essential of to young defend par beings t the of , prevailing female who mi education ght error have of .
to been the preserve lasting d , grief will con of ti those nue t who o be would cut off have at the been very happy outset to of guard exist them ence , regula agains ted t every families danger it is , rare had to they meet onl with y known a mother how . who Even before in the becoming
bestsuchhas devoted the , least attention to the studof the infant , constitution to the , principles on which it ought to be treated y , or to the laws by which , its principal functions are regulated . She enters on her important charge
i with n wh less ose preparation existence and than happ if it iness were her a p whole lant or soul a flower is centred , inst . Yet of a to being her its exclusi delicate vely the fram infant e requires looks for to her that it cherishing directs and appeal affectionate in the care full which
confrom fidence her that a look she or will a be ever will ; watchful the for its happ every isite iness and ath , relief or aid , . and She that it y
is who provides its nourishment cry procure , regulates it q s exercise sym , p and watches over its . chief her slumbers for objects the . But intelli of when her gent social we discharge inquire existence of to the what we duties extent find which that her thus in education the constitute maj has ority fitted the of
instruction instances , on and no that one point she marries relating and to becomes , the ? n has a she mother received , without even a a tittle icion of susp
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420 Notices Of Books.
420 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 420, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/60/
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