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2IS WHAT CAN EDUCATED WOMEN DO?
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; *' We Should Not Omit To Mention That ...
therefore are . well informed appeal on , and these who subjects , by repeated to the visits judgments , by dili of gent women the consulta walls who of
tion sucK of institutions published , works are practicall , and by y active qualified exertions to give within a judgment on their conditionI allude to such thinkers and workers as Mrs .
Jameson , Miss Nightingale . , Miss Twining , and Miss Carpenter , with other less known but most useful ladies . h
the the These utmo press st and all need by declare of dail the y , exertions and introduction have , that enforced of our educated social their institutions women opinion in stand throug almost in
will every not department dispute about , working the exact with position and "working they are under to assume men , for , it we is
quite a minor detail . Therefore I shall support every assertion I of see much make superintendence separate on better these articles fitted points to from , appear jud by quoting the ge than one freel I b of y am practical one y , the and on words I the workers should details of those be . of thankful who each are kind so to
, pens In her " Communion of Labor , " * Mrs . Jameson has classified our chief social institutions under these four heads :
—SanitaryEduca-, tional , Reformatory , and Penal ; and the first in order _wMch she introduces is the subject of
_Hospitals . I would ask one who doubts the efficacy of educated female
labor in these abodes any of pain and disease to read what is here said of some of those numerous institutions under the foreign Sisters of
Deaconesses any Charity other . way It is such excep of course as t b those y almost referring of Kaiserswerth impossible to Catholic to illustrate Sisters Berlin , or and the to Protestant Paris subject , for in
hospitals have never been regularly tended hy , educated , women who did not live in community . The ladies of St . John's House ,
Westminster , are an example of Protestant action of this kind . And as I am here discussing these topics , not from the benevolent ,
but from an economical point of view _, I particularly wish my readers to take notice that communities relieve the labor market . It is very
true " volunteer that each " ¦ but individual it is equall worker y true is that unpaid as , wherever and in that the sense system is is a
reall from y organised the ; funds , all of the the workers institution are fed , they , clothed actuall , , and y constitute supported a in very old age
important part of the paid labor of the country . Those who are rich bring or leave fortunes to the communitybut excellent and
valuable workers are taken in without money , and , thus ( regarding the question on its purely economical side ) they give their labor for a
permanent maintenance . When , therefore , we hear from Mrs . Jameson , of the Paris hospitals , including the Lariboissiere , founded by a
social * " Sisters of Char of ity and the b Communion of Labor to which . " Two is added lectures prefa on the
xind tory requirements letter employments to the Ri of ght the women Hon women . , Lord y of Mrs Eng John . Jameson land Russell . Longman ; , on the . pre 2 s . sent condition a -
2is What Can Educated Women Do?
2 IS WHAT CAN EDUCATED WOMEN DO ?
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 218, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/2/
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