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4 Part Ii. Needuework V. Domestic Servic...
_r-eraedial effects are discernible , assistance should be administered . Industrial culture must be undertaken according to this rule in
order to achieve success . Institutions and projects not so regulated must be utterly abortive , and , -while they attest good intentions ,
make remarkable the ignorance of those who attempt them . The production of exotic qualities should be the last object of our
schemes , the development of those that exist the very first . Most of the plans proposed for the cultivation of Irish women ' s
powers seek solely to induce them to become domestic , and suggest nothing but training them to foreign household habits , without
regard to their faculties for such employments , or facilities for carry ( e I ing will them not out pretend . to speak concerning Irish poorhouse girls
, of whose condition such contradictory evidence has been lately given before the Parliamentary Committee , " says Miss Cobbe ; ( "
Friendless Girls and How to Help Them . " London : Victoria Press ;) but those whose observation has been considerably exercised on them
may undertake to do so , and of their next of kin , the women of the working classes ; and we must state that much that relates to them
Is not fairly brought before the public mind , because of the habit of mixing up their case with that of others whose circumstances are
widely different . There is no parallel whatever between the females of England and Ireland in these ranks . The race predominating
amongst the latter requires an entirely different course of treatment from that which suits the former . Hence the benevolent and wise
plans of Mrs . "Way , Mrs . Archer , Miss Twining and others , which _, befriend the poor women of one country , could only be available
for those of the other with many modifications . The advocates of the " Family System" of rearing girls who
come under the guardianship of the State , are worthy of all support . This is the only principle that respects the design of
Him " who setteth the solitary in families , " and accords with the divine and human object of all lawthe promotion of the spiritual
, and material Interests of the being legislated for . The societies working out this idea afford abundant evidence of the beneficial
nature of its results ; but though they tend to physical and moral health , and secure a large increase of good female life in the
country , in Ireland no such benefits arise from it , as Mrs . Archer portrays { Journal Workhouse Visiting SocietyJanuary 1862 )
, , , , when she traces the career of " a well-trained child in a decently kept cottagewho soon learns to take a pride in helping to do the
, various work of the house ! " And then pictures her performing a series of servicesall as essentially English as possibleand quite
, , unlike what she would be taught to do in an Irish family of the class to which she would have access .
The girl ' s domestic experience would be limited to the condition of the household in which she might be placed ; and this probably
would be so low in the scale of civilized life , that , while her feelings
Cultivation Of Female Industry In Irelan...
CULTIVATION OF FEMALE INDUSTRY IN IRELAND . 31
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 31, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/31/
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