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    232 LA SCETJR KOSAIvIE.

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    being among - left the with poor , i it gnorant is not advisable nursesor to with try and other prevent children the but children little

    , older tlian themselves , so that they fall into the water-butt , or over the fireor down the stairs .

    The success , of any particular cr _& che will depend almost wholly on the person who manages it ; and also on the disposition of the

    mothers . We know one instance where a creche started in connection with a large factory failed , because the parents could not be

    permanently persuaded of its advantages . They asked at first what was the object of the nursery , as if some profit were about to result

    to the employers ! Even when this was got over , they disliked the _" extra trouble the mothers had in bringing their children to us ,

    instead of having them fetched , as the other nurses would do ;" and those who adopted the lan of hiring other children to look

    after their babieshad the convenience p of little maids at home to liht their fireboil , the kettleor look after the other children ; at

    any g rate the attendance , at the , nursery diminished . But that some impression had been made was shown by the fact that in after

    years , mothers who had formerly brought their infants to be taken care of , expressed a wish tliat they could still have the same

    advantages for their younger children , but there has been no combination among them to request or to obtain them once more . With this not

    very encouraging result of one experiment , we will leave the subject of creches _i and return to _tlie story of La Sceur Rosalie's exertions

    for the benefit of her older charges . It may easily be supposed that after having taught and trained

    her little girls from infancy upwards , it cost this earnest heart great sorrow to let them go from under her care as soon as they

    were apprenticed in the shop or the workroom ; yet without some regular system it was impossible to maintain any efficient influence

    over girls approaching womanhood when once they had quitted her schools . It is true , that if any of her young pupils went wrong in

    after years , when the fever of youth had cooled down , and they were of false leasurethey would return to La Sceur Rosalie

    to be weary received and comforted p , like the prodigal child . But it was then too late ; with broken health and ruined honor , and with their

    habits of work broken up by years of excitement , how could she counsel and restore except in relation to another life ? She had often

    been advised to found one of those schools which receive female children at tlie age of seven or eight , keep them during the years of

    school and of apprenticeship , and only restore them to ordinary life as own-and instructed workwomen . But she never would

    carry gr out any up such plan in connection with her own establishment ; the expense it would have entailed was in her eyes tlie least

    objecmaternal faubourg tion ; she cares to feared the with to softening which accustom an influences the han children , the lum of easy would her habits poverty surround , the -stricken almost them . orpasy

    , She often said "It is unwise to transplant them from , so rough a

    232 La Scetjr Kosaivie.

    232 LA SCETJR KOSAIvIE .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 232, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/16/