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OPEN COUNGED. 215
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To The Editors Of The English Woman's Jo...
does being tion demanded not elig exceed ible , if is , £ on 30 five . attaining shilling's the for age riot of less fifty than , her ten income years from , every other governess sources
. There is no ballo , t and the candidates will receive the annuities according nesses enabled to the date and to their of provide their emp subscri loyers eight ptions were extra , to as annuities become fast as the subscrib yearl funds y , ers will in , ten th allow e soc years . iet If y ei all wou ghty gover ld , in
twenty The feasibility years one and hundred usefulness and sixty of this . plan must surely be apparent to every the enable one . salary The her of to sum even afford demanded a poorl it , whilst y is paid a the mere governess good trifle result , . A very wou that l , little it scar is economy c to ely be be missed hop will ed , easil from will y
_gratulation accrue from . her If we doing think so , of may the be harrowing a cause for details lifelong of destitution thankfulness and and sorrow selfbefore which the usmaking Reports our of the very Governesses hearts shrink ' Benevolent within us Institution at the thoug yearl ht y that lay
tals there statistics , asy can lums , , we be , such may even perhaps hard prisons lines and form in reformatories this a faint fair which -seeming estimate have , whi world ch of clas the ht , if s well years governesses we recal educated of bodil the in hosp y their and t i-
mental toilof want and temptation , broug-, en future thoug delicatel ht — y how how nurtured , the better class , Eng than may lish vague be woinen rescued promises to such now from , a how pass forei , it gn and may and we be uncertain may shielded be led quarters to in take the ,
the efforts of , governesses themselves may be brought to bear on the emergency Some . nature governesses has the may and univers do save al , but type the in majority clas will s not there and are cannot some .
reckless tho Human ughtless memb have ers , heavy some same famil that are claims extravagant an ; infirm every , some father speculative or sick mother , some
brothers her bread . and Many even sisters in teaching , nephews , so or long nieces y as . there A , woman is a strong is rarel right y , s hand ent ou to t to furnish earn ,
the home , table . But when this failsalmost as certainly as she has to work frame for She herself will of be an she the aged will strong relative have one to _^ or work then it , may for " the , some be woman for one the who weaker help works lessness still for the , for of the the a bread little worn of , " child and out the .
Governesses the she most will have heartrending ' Benevolent to do her destitution best Ins . titution How crowd eloquentl often the she pages y does prove of so . these , Cases . Reports One upon life cases -story of but each of the noble selfsacrifice
is more harrowing than another , speaks - reading impulses and unexamp the are Reports astir led generosity in one the may world which at least , and have feel that that characterised there , thanks is a be vast to these amount God , tried good of lives and Christian n . oble In
to heroism hold in those lowly near homes and . dear It would to them seem by to their be an toil every , to -day support thing parents for women , and brothers up arid sistersto forget themselves and risk th _, eir future in order to
unconscious that bring they present , hav Lhat e relief merel there to , y done the has need been the y ir , anything ay duty , and ! when Well admirable , they a conscientiousl have in their done conduct all y performed this , to to say be
Him duty assiste for is d . attributable this could strength never to wh accomp the ich is grace lish niad _^ of anything e perfect God alone in of weakness the !— - kind poor , ! human so we may nature thank
un-. our It is leasure undoubtedl to hel y our such duty women , as it as mi these ght reasonabl and we y do be well expected in considering to prove
Institution has how p been we can in does do , existence so a most good p efficientl sin and ce hol 1841 y y and work affording wisel : it y , is . , a The as well the Governesses org Reports anized ' testif Society Benevolent y , most and
, valuable relief to the distressed . to be doneTwice
election And yet occ urs nearl for th y e vac is ant done annuities that needs , some four or five . in number a year , and an
Open Counged. 215
OPEN COUNGED . 215
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page 215, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/71/
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