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OPEN COUNCIL. 213
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To the ^Editor of the English Woman* s J...
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Open Council. 213
OPEN COUNCIL . 213
To The ^Editor Of The English Woman* S J...
To the _^ Editor of the English Woman * s Journal . Madam
uttered to It little would b girls Dr app , . or Hook ear bi tliat g men that great . women Your wits do do correspondent not not stand always in need A jump . E of . either quotes intellectual witl an i op respect train inion - y
ing , because they escape , u the narrowing process which is attendant upon professional who of pursuits profession : " in that answer '' the to which onsible I would and productive cite another use authority of a men- ,
tal faculty says is a the very noble , st end of resp a human creature ' s existence . " And respondent Sidney Smith , in read his ) celebrated ives it as essay a reason , ( which for I bestowing am much more afraid care your on cor the
education of never women , that g their minds have not the advantage which is derived from the disci , pline of a profession . I do ducationist not happen but to know what
that are the if all claims that of has Dr been . Hook urged to be by called men against a great e giving fair , play to I am women sure ¦ were brought together , we should have a large and not very creditable
colfill lection an immense ; while , on the with other arguments hand , I could and , statements out of the pages of a directl of this y Journal opposite , for tendency . with Dr . Ho space ok knowled had better of confine his subj himself ect would to educating assert that the the other domes sex - :
practice brain tic no life is one is of more music enlarg any exercised is any ing substitute to in ge the that mind for a than loyment liberal the education professional than it is , in seeing , counting or that that the the the
no more emp for stitches both on of a these piece of occupations worsted work so they . Patience are for and lay attention ing a round are required game at
cards and , for catching flies . Some ; peoj ) le are very p much in earnest to very little purposeand I cannot commend the lady who spent seven hours every
her day irer at at last her Dire p for iano , opening Necessity , nor can a I B for believe erlin the -wo most that ol shop inanimate her . previous More creature probabl waste in y of the the life world great qualified will
inbestir spwas itselfI thinkand , take a good deal of trouble rather than die of ri starvation ht one . the , But result even , does allowing not appear your correspondent to me a very ' s signal supposition triumph to .. be This the g
lad babl y y had nine youth , ) to , spend health in , her energy want own with , perseverance improvement , : and irls she . seven lacked If she hours onl had y a one onl day thing ( been pro- , and it is a common poor young g y
first well - - class advised governess very , she mig ; ht not have thereb been y to unconsciousl labor for an y qualif existence ying , herself but to to lead be a a life of real and dignified usefulness
. I lied cannot to a see irl , for my more part , than why to " bookish a boy ; " knowledge should be a is term food of for reproach both ., and as gany
others they app should requires both it . alike But be the taug general ht to lay practice down is their much book against when anything their duty - like to which witnessed friend of
fairness in these mattersand a scene was by a illustration mine in a very of the correct fact , , The church mother -going and , reli one gious of famil her sons y , may were serve engaged as an in
. present a discussion on her some inion every and -day was question answered ; one b of her the brother daughters " Sit you who there was
and sew gave for it is op all you , are good for , " adding y a coarse and , disgraceful expression , which I do not insert behaviour . I need did not not say that the him mother for , it who had
broug should ht she up ? her She son to destitute sucli of one of , the most reprove essential qualities . in How the
was mother accustomed of a herself family to - — the respect wrong for state herself of things and , for and her saw daug no harm hters in : it she . ¦ B had ut misunderstood the ect of needlework do
she not here should me I must an to not try say be not that kept to a be g to irl it should all day never long on tahe , nor a till needle subj her in young her 7 iand life , but becomes : I that of time should be left to her undisturbed
burdensome to her ; that some space
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1859, page 213, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111859/page/69/
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