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4 Part Ii. Needuework V. Domestic Servic...
are left to tlieir own devices , with an insufficient education to enable these to subserve their proper interest .
Children for whom , the public purse is chargeable should be individualized and personally superintended , and their progress
recorded and directed . Not only for their own sakes , but for the benefit of the trades of the country , an object for studying should be
set before them . The _visile Ouvrier gives French women an immense advantage in
becoming profitable needlewomen . This institution is annexed to the ordinary literary schoolsand closed when they are open . It
is free to girls of all classes whether , attending the other schools or not . The law compels the cultivation of the description of work
which forms a branch of female industry in the district , and provides facilitfor its improvement . "We want that which
every y constitutes the vivifying force of female training in France- — Female Inspection . This is the authority that classifies , organizes , and .
regulates beneficially for the sex , and without which all efforts and expenditure here will be . _fruitless . And this is requisite for
something more than the promotion of mere handicraft skill amongst women . There is great necessity for the feminine test being
app part lied on to matt the standard ers connected of the with instruction the moral even or certificated sanitary circumstances teachers
imof poor , girls . An important step would be gained in many ways hy the aj > pointment of Female Inspectors of Schools . Let us hope
some such good is in prospect , when men are giving ear to such sentiments as these : —
"It is one of the happiest features of our social condition that men are daily more and more acknowledging the advantages of
women's co-operation in active public work , and that the number is daily increasing of educated women , who seek out the means of
exercising their peculiar gifts and qualifications in schemes ' of practical utilit . The value of the communion of labor is being
y acknowledged ; woman's true place in the economy of society is more justly defined ; and the strength and support which simplicity
b £ design , sincerity of purpose , and aptitude for detail give to every workare sure to be found in the earnest _co-oxoeration which
intelli , gent , and active-minded , and benevolent women can give . Our literature is sensiblaffected by their influence . Fictionthe
y , great popular educator of modern times , has acquired , since women have taken their laces in the front rank of its writersa healthy ,
practical record of tone roman ; and p tic the sentimentality novel of the or present the narr day ativ is , e no of , longer thrillin the g
. adventure , but the exponent of the evils which affect our social conditionthe ister of the hases of opinionor the delineator of
the influences , reg and effects which p are spread around , by purity and elevation of character . It is _thusperhajDsthat it has come to pass ,
. that , in . our day , the active and benevolent , , spirit of Elizabeth Fry
• is to be found filling more widely the hearts of her own sex , than ,
38 Cultivation Of Female Industry In Ire...
38 CULTIVATION OF FEMALE INDUSTRY IN IRELAND .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 38, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/38/
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