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122 THE CHARMOTJTH CONVALESCENT HOME.
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" Here Here Healing Are Soft Hands Dews ...
building" the enlarged Herbert Home according to the first resolution of the Memorial Committee ; and to maintain the
establishment on its present model footing , until the funds already received can be judiciously appliedand a larger sum
collected . , For ourselves , we never visited the Home _withoufcan impatient
long-ing to throw open its advantages , not only to female patients from all parts of _Eng-landbut also to the over-worked labourer
whose life is often endangered , hy a sudden return to work after , a long illness .
Let me now heg my reader to accompany our party in our first visit to this Institution .
On a bright , hot day of September , we climbed the steep ascent which leads from the sea to the long row of tidy
lodginghouses , resting half-way up , to turn an admiring glance on the lovely little bay which lay apparently sleeping in the afternoon ' s
sun , with here and there the tiny white sail of a fishing-boat upon its dark blue waves . "We had soon felt how well
Charmouth was fitted for invalids , for though it was well-protected from the bitter east winds and cutting "breezes of spring- and
winter , yet even on such a hot day as this , the pure air from the English Channel would brace the most delicateand prevent the
overpowering sensation of heat . Close to the church , , we stopped and knocked at the door of what seemed an ordinary-looking
lodging-house , opening into the street , the appearance of which made us hesitate and think we were mistaken ; but the sight
of a neat , civil servant , with welcome in her face , and a " _Won't you walk over the Homeladies ? " on her tonguesatisfied us ;
and in a few moments we , were met by the kind gentle , -mannered matronwho went with us over the whole of the establishment
and without , a thought of her own trouble , forestalled all our , questions by pointing out in a slightly foreign accent the rules
and and interesting comforts of accounts the Institution of its , past and and by g present iving us inmates many amusin whom g
she evidently considered as her children for the time . She , had not permitted any of her invalids to risk the great heat of to-day
by going" down to the beach , for unfortunately it was a good walk by the road , and therefore she said she should have the
pleasure of introducing us to the whole of her present family . Usuallyat this timeshe sent them down to the rocksor to
the benches , placed along , the cliff , whilst three or four of , the very infirm drove out together in the private donkey carriage
belonging to the Home . " Sometimes we make little expeditions , " she added , " to Lyme and elsewhere , and have great
fun !" the shade she of spo a ke larg , she e elm led , w us ere into twe the lve women garden , a nd g th irls ere ; , one under or
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122 The Charmotjth Convalescent Home.
122 THE CHARMOTJTH CONVALESCENT HOME .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1863, page 122, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101863/page/50/
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