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THE BIiAOK COUNTRY. 87
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and _grap do hy so used little to . advise To ive , the children three r _' a s knowled tolerably , than of reli attemp ious t truth so much -to _, g ge g
, lead them to wonder at and trust to God's care and love , to reverence His nameHis houseand His day ; to make them familiar with the
, , Saviour ' s life and teaching , to show them how surely sorrow follows sinis of more importance than to load their memories with facts
which , can only be lodged there by a cramming process that places the Bible on the level of a common lesson book . If , instead of
teaching these girls the nine parts of speech , we taught them how to cook a dinnerthe method required even in sweeping and dusting
roomthe , care for healththe value of ventilation a the , importance necessary of cleanlinesspersonal , and household proper , the
constant , and inevitable discomfort of , the home where the wife is slovenly and untidy , the necessity for the stitch in time , showing
them how the small . hole left undarned in the stocking is soon past air ; the advantage of keeping everything to its proper use ;
rep soiled linen being put carefully away for the weekly wash , no dirty aprons being used for dusters or kitchen towels , ( a process by no
means uncommon in slatternly households , ) if we taught these things , instead of leaving them to the instinct which all women are
supposed to possess for household matters , surely we should see happier results than at present ; and ignoble as such things may
_apxDear in detail , it is the want of knowledge on these and similar subjects which leads to so much discomfortnay , to positive misery .
, England has reason to be proud of her institutions for the helpless and the ignorantfor they are almost numberless , but in this
Black Country , with , its enormous population , we have but one solitary Training Home for Girls . We have our hospitals , our
national and other schools , one orphanage struggling against insufficient fundsand one home where girls are trained for domestic
service . In this , latter institution , since its opening in April , 1857 , ninety-five irls have been received—eighty-one fitted for
servicefourteen young still g remain in the Home ; connected with it is also an , industrial school for boys . One or two more such homes
in our densely crowded districts might save many of our young sisters from the evils attendant upon the coarse associations around
them . With strong and willing hands , brave and affectionate hearts ,
and energies which only need guidance and direction , the people of the Black Countryin the eloquent words of one who has " done
, what she could" for them , " exposed to all the temptations of crowded- dwellings , exhausting labor , and its attendant snares ,
afford a field of exertion not to be surpassed ininterest and importance by any sphere of missionary labor . ' . ' _^
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The Biiaok Country. 87
THE _BIiAOK COUNTRY . 87
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 87, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/15/
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