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284 open council.
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Mothers V. Nurses.
princi tumble ple in in station human imitate nature those , but above it is them a sure ; and and if calculable a lady spends one , tiiat the time the and
that display oug of ht her to be person devoted , let to her hi not gher think objects that , in her efforts servants for the will adornment occupy themselves much otherwise .
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284 Open Council.
284 open council .
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present many of state your of supporters our social , but arrangements it is one of and the the hi leg ghest islation importance which controls them again in general ; urged and whose like upon all the inion subjects attention we ' know of such of to those importance be a who powerful can it aid requires influence it , and to of be the again public and
, op . number In the most the attention interesting of notice of of St . Josep readers h ' s School will , g have iven been in your drawn Octob to er these words , wards , " W where hen girls many arrive of at your all the kinds age of sixteen led they are sent and into the
- thoug houses the adult ht this will evil have would arisen never are , if women women have been had adopted to do with into ming the it . management _ISTo together , I believe , " of indeed
workthese it would in not the , truest nor , probabl sense y homeless , some others . exert Should ourselves not we with then , as and sisters voice of , , poor , pen to put ot a of stop friends to such in disgrace whom We and are mischief interested ? " know We who that have we children could not of be our so own
contented , with following out Christ ' s precept , , " Peed my Lambs , " so if education nourish it only immortal manufacture of heart lives and . articles conscience Nor , can fit we for preparing be going content out them to with for service s the elf- Work , rel who ing , of without and the honor House the
able paths of life , will have in few or many years to return y to their home in it . And should we rest , knowing of this evil and workhouses others which which the want of
female sented to supervision us as the safe has introduced and into retreat those of the hanor the are destitute reprethe young and the mature , as necessary well as the aged of our orp sex ? , Is it not our duty , not in familiesbut
under to endeavor the authority that where of strangers women and and children officials , are with placed nothing , but law and , lawgivers about them , that those women who can best understand their
characinfluence ters , their and wants a voice and weaknesses in providing , their for merits the well and - their being fault , or , s , at should least , have not deterioration shut up in what of , those after in whom spection , in of order some to of support the best with managed more , I facility must , call we flatter
for mild the prisons . inmates And woman of workhouses ' s influence , for too , whom would the , I material myself work , procure is well or provided cultured economic grown , minds but works whose wither , but uncultured there amusing , the minds and opportunity interesting , have broug of books reading ht them , such , not thither as onl would y , reli or supp whose gious ly
that life and reality which all minds crave ; which men can obtain out of doors bably , whenever is one reason they why are not comparativel at their work y so , few and able often -bodied in it— men and are which foiind , pro in - when most without
time workhouses incurring inspire the — good which reproach ideas women , of unknown idleness never to , gossi them get , p even , before or much , and worse tempt ; working those and at who , the cannot same
read to learn , when they see and hear the enjoyment which others derive from But thi in s strong power l . y urging upon women of education and experience the duty workhouses
would of visiting respectfull and inspecting y add one in suggestion all the female .. Do not departments let us imag of ine that because , I
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1858, page 284, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121858/page/68/
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