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    WHAT CAN EDUCATED WOMEN DO?- 221;

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    punishment and prison discipline in Ireland , has made great use of female- officialsand has allowed that he could not have succeeded ,

    , without them ; and Lord Carlisle in his speech at the Liverpool meetinof the Association for the Promotion of Social Sciencein

    1858 , bore g the strongest testimony to the will and efficient working , " , of these ladies .

    Reformatories . I find the following passages in Miss Carpenter ' s works

    illustrative of my position : — "A yet more striking fact is derivable from a paper delivered

    into the Lords' Committee in 1847 , by Mr . Chalmers , Governor of Aberdeen Prison . The per centage of female prisoners in all the

    prisons of Scotland is nearly one-half ; of juvenile female prisoners tinder 17 , between one-fifth and one-sixth ; but the per eentage of

    re-commitments of juvenile female prisoners is yr eater hy one-half than that of males . This statistic fact would indicate that young girls

    are generally much less prone to crime than boys of the same age , but that their tendency to it rapidly increases with their age , and

    that when they have once embarked _iuT a criminal career , they become more thoroughly hardened than the other sex , The correctness of

    these painful results is " proved by the testimony of the Bishop of Tasmania before the Lords . "

    Now who is to stop young girls from embarking in a criminal career ? Can menhowever good and earnestdo all that is required ,

    in the pulpit or the , school-room ; or must it be , left to older and better educated members of their own sex ? In Miss Carpenter ' s books ,

    and in her various papers read before the Social Science Association , In different years , she niakes constant appeal for help in the

    reformatory cause , one half of which help must obviously come from womenwhile in a sent by her in July 1858 to this Journal ,

    she puts ; this appeal paper in its more direct form . , She calls , on " Christian women" to devote themselves to the work . She says that

    "We must have in the school , a good matron , a good schoolmistress , and a good industrial teacher ; " adding , " we have hitherto

    addressed women who have independent means , and who would gladly give voluntary and unpaid help . Tliere may be , and

    doubtless are , many who are compelled to labor for their maintenance , devotion but who , which while doing cannot so , _Tbe would boug g ht ladl with y give gold in addition and wliich , a are zeal most . and

    precious . Tliey would willingly encounter difficulties , and privations in this work of Christ ' s . Such miht with great advantage enter

    reformatories as matronsschool- g mistressesindustrial teachers . The greatest difficulty is , at present to find , fit persons for these

    offices ; they will be gladly welcomed . " I now come to the consideration of

    Workhouses ; and have applied to Miss Louisa Twining for the results of her large

    experience in wliat Mrs . Jameson very naturally calls " an institution

    What Can Educated Women Do?- 221;

    WHAT CAN EDUCATED WOMEN DO ? - 221 ;

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 221, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/5/