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THE NEEDLEWOMAN AS NURSE. 55
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Labor Women To The Very Is Great Attribu...
I liave written this annal in the hope of impressing , both upon individual ' s themselvesand also the friends of those who want
, and employment then , exerting , the need themselves of weighing to secure —first such , what posts they of are labor bestfitted . Were for ';
this more generally done , we should not find so many persons taken toiling because in hateful they discontent were vacant under , and the not yoke because of forced they duties were , adapted under-:
to fulfil them . persons By a misp little laced previous might be exertion shifted * and into inquiry congenial a niches large , number especiall of y
the if pride The companion position could be of friend kept a nurse under comforter who . is suited of the even sick temporall and whose y to influence become
canwhile it soften , s their , position , extend itself , , by association , over the , mind as well as the frame of the sufferer , is a post surely fit to throw her
situation on be undertaken her own is menial resources by any how . lad few Yet y whose , of from this reduced the class conventional are circumstances ever found idea among that the the
paid watchers of our , sick . Where love and relationship exist , we leave find ladies her husband of every ' s rank bedside —from to the our peasant womanl ' s y wife Queen —obey , who ing refused nature to ' s
dictates and tending with care , their own loved ones , jealous of any servant ' s interferenceBut for the numbers who are deprived of
. there the presence is no suitable of female provision relations in nurses and obli . ged In their to substitute case medical hirelings men ,
dants avow — that a race they of have Mrs the . Gamps greatest is all difficulty they can to select secur from e efficient ; and to atten the
tender mercies of such women , invalids are confided for lack of < proper are thus app lost licants ! Wh to should supply not their place ath . be What allowed golden to take opportunities the lace sympy p
of lovewithout permitting y the necessary wages of her labor to lower iher position , or her efforts ? Would not gratitude blending with and
care uphold her rank , and often end in sacred friendship mutu There al obli is gations a great ? demand in the present day for fresh fields in
persons break which ladies down to the may the association wall work . of Would pride of the vul , that which garit bedside a y few , condemns and of enterprising , sufferers stepp so ing many ones over would thus sick the
di breach gnity , and take st up atus their to the posts office at of nurse ! It is done on , giving the Continent bSisters of Charitwho are drawn many of them from noble
families y ; why not in Eng y , land ? Example is alone required for its establishment . A fair field of remuneration and independence would
alleviating willing be thus ly thrown relaxed the suffering open than ; to for of friends those to no who one liaise prove are the the themselve position purse-strings s and capable suitable more of
women would be soon shifted into . their right places , , whilst many
a gentle-minded governess now wearing out under the care of
The Needlewoman As Nurse. 55
THE NEEDLEWOMAN AS NURSE . 55
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 55, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/55/
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