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94 A WORD TO THE WISE,
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exercised Iier heroism in a more legitimate sphere . Woman ' s sphere is not the battle-field . Florence Nightingale was not wanted there :
her of and wounds p constancy lace was , the ; the sound when hosp of every ital groans , a sense place , and was howbeit an haunted everlasting requiring by horror scent equal , of the courage blood sight , vast and
victorious required But how a sympath motive is this y to , sympath ever endure fresh y them to and be , which ever cultivated active nothing , ? could In Ibut sadness sustain a a volume . of the in
which there occurs no mistake , we read that " By the countenance the heart is made better . " In order properly to sympathise with distress , we must surely see something of it . true This that is
in too many instances entirely overlooked . It is perfectly , in this great city , to a certain extent , we lodge then strangers do , we all bring these
hy saints up proxy children we . , We don and 't don we want 't wash see to the the see strangers saints them ' feet we , or : don the but 't children care we to , . or But even thi the s ,
couring though ; a distress very convenient , is not the , best and or sometimes the , only a way very of proper doing so way . B of y suc this
path do means these y is our things experienced own by proper proxy , is that sp as here well we do is as merged we not . come The into reason in contact another wh hear y with , so for of little suffering men the sym dis can
tressed itself . ¥ but e look we on hear pictures not them , not . on We orig send inals . but We do not go to the - house of , mourningWe do not , visit the fatherless , and widows , but
. depute could we somebod hear the y else tale . of Could suffering we look as full uttered in the in face the of fulnes widowhood s of the ,
heart that bleeds , the best feelings of our nature would be insensibly drawn forth . Could you take the soft and tiny palm of a neglected
simp little le child act and had place linked it b yourself etween your to that own little , you child would . A find thrill b would y that
you th pervade would your vibrate whole nature and as , in the which child every looked chord wondering of womanl ly into y sympa your - ;
eyes y , you would recognise in it the representative of its class , and visits would to find the yourself house of under mourning a necessit and y of to charity the abodes . Nor of think poverty that such and
distressare not the best preparation , for enjoyment in the house of feasting , . They only know how to " laugh" who observe also the
_" time to weep . " There is something very ennobling and elevating in the fitness
prosecution of woman ' s allotted task . She only has the requisite . " Women's work " is sometimes spoken of half contemptuousl above him y Give , as
a if man it were a sick work child beneath for a a man niht , rather . You than will work not do that if you . love either the child or the man g He is al to the task ; but while he
mands goes to of sleep nature in rig It ht is of a his hol . manhood viil unequ . , Throug woman h is the superior long ni to ght the hours
deshe sitsher movements . and her y drapery g as noiseless as the expansion ,
of the angel's wing , whose invisible presence is mysteriously appre-
94 A Word To The Wise,
94 A WORD TO THE WISE ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1859, page 94, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101859/page/22/
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