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IiETTEBS ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN, 273
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Madam:, A Practical Proposal.
owes And to very them valuable his start and in life useful , having tliese " there institutions received are an . education Many an far honest superior lad
to some that modern which his philanthrop parent ' s means ist , or could ancient have patron afforde of d , learning had not the , induced beneficence him to of endow the institution he had founded with his own or land .
We are acquainted with one of these noble foundations money , ( a blue-coat school , ) in apprenticed which the to son any s of trade poor they widows wish are to received learn ; , . thus clothe they d , educated start fair , and for finall the y
great race of life , and are as likely to prosper as other boys who have not lost their fathers . for In college another , at , in so the cheap same a county rate , , that boys the receive sons an of education small farmers which and fits them little
tradesmen can avail themselves of its advantages . A third , only ten miles from the last mentioned , is about to be built where metic day scholars book-keep will ing for £ 4 : a year h be taug history ht " Eng relig lish ion , literature reading , writing and composi , arith-
tion , the LatinGreek , geograp and French y , languages , , the principles of natural philosop , hy , mathematics , , , algebra , and also such other languages , arts , and from sciences time , as to t time he trustees deem expedient , with the so consent that the of scholars the dean may , and receive chapter a sound , may
boarded moral , religous and taug , and ht a liberal part or the education whole , . " of this Pupils course from of a instruction distance may for _^ £ be 20 , a year .
vided Thus at , in a rate innumerable far below instances cost price , , the with sons a practical of the middle commercial classes education are prosuch as , will enable them to maintain themselves hereafter . it must be to his
misconduct If a boy thu . His s taug education ht does not has succeed iven him in life the , means of gaining owing an honest own comfortable maintenance hthe exercise g of his intelligenceand if he does ,
not earn ithe must be answerable y for Ms own failure ; society , has done its utmost to provide , for him .
one and So respect the excellent kind they of are education are these so limited institutions bestowed , for , , differ there that as one is they one cannot feature may hel in p in date regretting which , constitution they that all in ,
all at least with which we are acquainted , , resemble each other—they are in- , variabl We do y for not boys mean _. to howeverthat there exists no endowed charity say
gratis country and schools yellow for church condition girls mittens , in who Eng of may , wearing land upon , sometimes , for inquiry this rows uncomfortable , , be are of seen children found enlivening to costum in receive hig e h the on caps their Sundays gallery , red education cloaks of and a ,
, on of other a different state occasions and inferior . "What nature we mean and constitution is , that charity from schools the foundations for girls are for boysthat they are generallintended for a different classand that they
, y , with are Compare conducted that afforded the on education different to the g princi iven capless to ples the boy and bomietless belong for opposite ing little to objects girl the in blue . the -coat red school cloak , children of and in the
spoken same social of at first scale , both ? What the does the education working parents of the , former standing fit her for ? enter Why , professions to be a domestic tliat are servant alread or y a seamstress so over-crowded ; that that , is must as to to say almost be , it scarcel fits of her y re to
that munerative sity , a unless large ; she proportion she marry is trained , of end the to in aged enter the workhouse female on a course inmates , for it in is these but too melanchol well known neces y re- - domestic servantsThe meanwhileis
pared cation fuges , for such consist a far as will of higher worn enable , walk out him in life to earn ; he a receives good . livelihood a practical boy , , spend commercial his , life edu _j _} re in - ~ for his
comfort It was , and most lay justl by y a said provision lately by a leading declining organ years of . the press , that it is
Iiettebs On The Employment Of Women, 273
_IiETTEBS ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN , 273
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 273, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/57/
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