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A YEAR'S EXPERIENCE. 117
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W Nearly A Year Has Now Passed Since, Th...
to seek some employment -which , will secure them a fair income , and ex not tend con ed sign over them numb to ers simp cannot le trades be parallel , which to , let the them professions be ever which so
gentlemen require , or to , the commercial enterprise which they carry on Now on a there large is scale work . which reallclever and energetic women are
wanted to perform , and which peop y le are everywhere beginning to they ht to performall work involving moral superintendence
Mrs over say . women Jameson oug , and dwelt ph constantl ysical ; care y of of late the years sick and on this infirm whole of both subject sexes , in . Ni
has her begun writings to and organize in her the priv training ate conversation of women ; for and the Miss latter under g purpose htingale ,
and nurses are also educated at several institutions lay orofficials Church influence in charitable . But industrial as to p , lacing penal , educated or reform women atory to establish act as
ments , I really think I , may say that nothing is done or doing . We that keep we reiterating are nearer the need the realization of them in of each our and wish all than ; but we I do were not Rv see &
natural years our Now own ago , ability wh experience . y is mi this ht of ?— be the I disposed can last year supp and ; ly because one competent _jDart the of to women the undertake answer who from from such
have posts with little advantage idea of g the to kind themselves of work and and others little , do desire not ask for for it thexn , and _,
would probably fail in doing it if they , tried ; because they have had no training
in Althoug want . of h emp I loyment have seen during many the hig last hly year educated , conviction I have and not refined to seen take women half the a dozen who competentby their own
responsibilit were y of management , on a large scale ; the matronshi , p of female emigrant shithe control of a wild troop of reformatory
wards girls , the of a overseershi workhouse ps p . , of female factory operatives , or the female The
NowSisters of Charity abroad do all these things . popular ing notion the of , sick a Sister or searchin of Charity on in a field England of battle is , that for she wounded is always men nurs with
-, g poetical a vestige and of life somewhat in them shadowy , or visiting Evangelines the poor , at with their baskets own houses on their — of their mul
tifarious arms . But duties , in good They truth get , throug these are h in but separate a small divisions part nearly all
take the work feed perform clothe . ed and ( or teach unperformed han ) a . nd in our destitute workhouses children ;— , they and orp
old faring , up le the , and girls the , cri for service lesand ;— tend they them take in bodil other y possession establishments of the ; —they peop distribute medicines pp , and most of the casual relief
, manage funds of foreign cities . They also—and let me particularl criminal y draw and
your vagrant attention children to . thi I s saw point in —undertak the month e the of car April e of last the great
A Year's Experience. 117
A YEAR ' S EXPERIENCE . 117
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 117, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/45/
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