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188 [REMUNERATIVE WORK FOR GENTLEWOMEN.
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Bible is not often undertaken , yet is quite necessary for the calling of schoolmistressespecially for the children of the poorwho
, , depend ( as has been said before ) so much on oral instruction . In these respects the training colleges are doing great good .
Much solid information is there acquired , and though it may valube wasted by the want of manner which attaches for the most
part to the girls who are brought up there , it is indeed very valuthey able draw if not from indispensable is deep ? and . Children no teacher soon is likel find y whether to prove the efficient well
, who does not feel secure that her scholars cannot sound the depth of her learning . For this purpose some kind of college where such
habits of order and command , together with such knowledge , may be acquiredwill be seen to be a great desideratum .
, If funds could be raised for the rent or purchase of a house , and the entire or partial support and instruction of its inmates during
some given period , it is believed that managers of schools would find a large supply of gentlewomenthankful for a home with only the
, necessaries of life , instead of drawing from unsettled occupations a scanty subsistence .
It is essential that it should be distinct from existing colleges . However much we may think that class distinctions are too
vigorously insisted on in all ranks of society , ( for in truth none but the lowest are free from them ) there are distinctions which Providence
, itself marks out to be observed for the benefit of all . Nature's boundaries , though always graceful in their sweeping
lines of mountain or of stream , are quite decided in their demarcationand the moral like the physical world is thus divided . Any
, attempt to mingle with the present girlish occupants of training colleges , women whose habits , education and associations are
so wholly different , would be to injure institutions now working well , without gaining anything in return . Differences which are
so slight as to be scarcely noticed in an hour ' s intercourse , become serious in a life passed together . So much concern has been
expressed by the public for our indigent fellow-countrywomen , that it would be unfair to doubt that assistance both pecuniary and
otherwise may be safely looked for in furtherance of any promising scheme for their benefitsuch as the establishment of an institution
of the kind of which I have , spoken , but happily it is not necessary to wait for such aid before making an offer to school managers of
the services of ladies in their female or mixed schools . They must be open to any proposal that sounds well , and enough has been
done in the education of all gentlewomen to make the acquirement of more an easy task—one for which a special training is not
needful though desirable . If any ladies should be induced by what has been said to venture
on a field hitherto but little tried , let them remember that I have not spoken of it as a pleasant task ( it may be doubted if those two
words pleasant and task can ever fit together ) but only as one
188 [Remunerative Work For Gentlewomen.
188 [ REMUNERATIVE WORK FOR GENTLEWOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page 188, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/44/
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