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    REMUNERATIVE WOEK FOR GENTLEWOMEN. 187

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    * There Are Few More Satisfactory Occurr...

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    bread in service or by some industrial calling years before they are out of their apprenticeshi . It is a necessity with them to

    get through their time of pre p paration and enter on their career as schoolmistresses as early as they can . Accordingly , they heads

    much begin their on more duties agreeable with unformed or more minds distinguished , their positions running which very

    with they see them in whereas the distance to their . , The proposed dreams rivals of life the are season just beg of , dreams inning

    is com past ani and ons , sober and obli realities ged to bear renounce sway their . Parted usual from pursuits their , between former

    the pauses p of , their daily toil there would be ample time and ample food for thought , and the value of thought to a teacher cannot

    be overrated . tone Again of National , without School wishing teacher to s speak generall disrespectfull yit isfrom y certain of the circum moral

    stancesnecessarily lower than that of the , class , above them . If , doubt thislet them ask themselves whether a story in the

    newspapers mandment any does telling not of , startle a breach us of in the some sixth measure , seventh if , or told eig of hth gentle com - -

    . folkwhen , it would be comparatively a matter of course in the the workin , sli g htest class credit . Taking can be their claimed relative for temp this tations but its into effect account is power , not

    ful . The g habit of associating , nay , the fact , often of close relationmorality ship with with offenders of this quite sort , free engenders from such a lo taint wer standard themselves of .

    And this gives very a superiority many to those who are beyond the pale of such influenceIt tells both on children- and on their parents .

    . The they latter frequentl especiall call y almost such " involuntaril waifs and y strays submit of gentility to a " real . " lad They y , "

    as y feel that they are not in possession of the language of their opponents . A confusion of tongues produces silence .

    These then are certain qualifications which middle-aged gentlewomen are undoubtedl possess y for difficulties the post of in National their path School which mistress should without ; be but looked there

    atand if it may be removed . A youth passed any definit both , most e object will seldom to the result work in . in hab hand its . of Nor order does or it method often , necessary

    happen children , perhaps is of , spontaneou that the power s growth of ruling . Again the , wayward there little are iven tempers certain if left of

    branches to their own of stud choice y to . which Arithmetic young is ladies generall are y very distasteful g to girls of

    most edification any class women ; is and , who we althoug may have hope time h , the in and these reading opportunity days of , a continual Scri for ptur it , the e exercise for stud personal y of with the _,

    Remunerative Woek For Gentlewomen. 187

    REMUNERATIVE WOEK FOR GENTLEWOMEN . 187

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page 187, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/43/