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LA SCETJR ROSALIE. 229
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tormen declassement t of ) our which laboring must class one day for be the repressed trouble , among and which our working , is the "
people is that now-a-days nobod , y is contented to remain in her own station in life . "
A great deal in this _passage from the pen of La Soeur Rosalie is open to contrary argument , and our American readers will probably
think it very absurd and wrong * to wish to limit the upward aspirations of irls and boyssince to rise in life meansup to a certain
roundings point , better g of food an , external better , clothes kind . , more And leisure undoubtedl , and y purer , where moral there sur is
ample virgin land to receive and sustain a surplus population , or where commerce is so raidlexpandingor emigration becoming so cheap
and that room p can y be made for , all who choose to " rise in life " without easy prejudice , to their neighbours , there is no reason why being
content with tlie station whereunto God called us in the first instance b Christian y birth , should But in be our insisted old countries upon as part in many of the parts character of Eng of land a , true and
. , still more in very differently organised France , the rapid interchange carried on in New York and in Manchester between the social
status of the master and that of the man , is practically impossible . It can only be by a sort of miracle that the agricultural laborer le in of
Dorset and Essex can " rise in life , " and the working peop Paris and London find themselves hemmed in by conditions most difficult of change . Now we freely admit that it is the business of the
lawg to free iver the and energ the ies politician of the peop to le widen , and to these bring conditions social ease if and possible intel- ;
lectual culture within the reach , of the greatest possible number . But we firmlsubmit that it is the immediate duty of practical
philanthropists y to make the best of existing conditions . The minis- ' ter of Christ and the visitor among the poor has for immediate
concern the making John and Jane , Thomas and Mary , lead good and useful lives on a sum ranging from ten to twenty shillings a week :
been a hard proved problem by , thousands but one not of instances utterly impossible among the of virtuou solution s , and as has
industrious La Soeur poor Kosalie . disliked applying the spur , of rivalry to her
schools , according to the plan by which the municipality of Paris g paid ecoles irls every who communales carried year a off considerable She the thus suffrages wrote sum to in for a a fri competition the end apprenticing interested open in to of primary all young the
. instruction . " My experience has shown me that grave evils result from tive , examinations the system of The bestowed strugg apprenticeshi le lies more p between as a reward the mistresses in competi of
-. the different schools , who devote themselves to the pupils from whom they expect credit , to the detriment of the results numbers obtained who have the a
right to their eare and instruction . " The by Sister in the schools under her immediate superintendence were
remarkable for their good condition . She brought up her little girls
La Scetjr Rosalie. 229
LA SCETJR ROSALIE . 229
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 229, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/13/
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