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    282 open coujsrcrii.

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    The " Saturday Review."

    She mental breadth , nor fail in ehildward care , _ISTor lose the childlike in the _larger mind ;

    Till at the last she set herself to man , Like And perfect so these music twain unto noble the words skirts of ; time upon

    , , Dispensing Bit side by side harvest , full , - sowing summ'd the in to all -be their , powers ,

    Self-reverent each and reverencing' each , Distinct But like in each individualities other ev ' n as , those who love .

    Then comes the statelier Eden back to men : Then reign the world ' s great bridals , chaste and calm : Then springs the crowning race of human-kind .

    May these things be !" I beg to remain , Madam ,

    Yours , etc .,

    W . T . MB

    282 Open Coujsrcrii.

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    XLL—OPEN _COUNCIL . _£ As these pages are intended for general discussion , the Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed . J

    N » To The Jbditor Of The English Woman?...

    n _» To the JBditor of the English Woman ? s Journal ,

    Madam , I will endeavor to answer the queries of your correspondent " A Practical Girls

    Mistress It seems of to a Household me that there " with are several regard reason to Servants s why and they Workhouse are not received . into households parativel the more y respectable few of the girls upper p of laces the classes as ages servants , and of fourteen these , the onl chie or y f as fifteen one nursemaids of are which wanted . is The that in great com the - .

    there demand is generall for such y young such a servants young hel is per in the required lower , or or tradesp in the e country ople class at , where _farmhoxises abundance , and there I have is , made I believe inquiries , no difficulty relating in to procuring this point such at m situations district in

    and workhouse . schoolsand never have found that there was any any want of octhat cupation we should for the be school doing , -g much irls in good the nei in g diverting hbourhood - them . And from I this own channel I do not into see worked

    g that irl in of a the tradesman upper classes ' s famil , for y bad or as lodg may ing be house the p , lace I much of many fear an the over evils - of the " servants' hall" and the " housekeeper ' s room" with their fine , idle for friendless irls

    footmen Of course , would it is be the still dut greater y of the poor guardians to see g that . such do not go to families places of must obvious have temptations servants , and , such in most as public cases - onl houses y a young ; but as one tradesmen is wanted ' s

    to assist the mistress in her household duties , I think they cannot be better supplied than from workliouse schools . I most cordiall y agree in your irls correspondent should be ' s much opinion better that than , even it for is such

    places , the training of these g now ;

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 282, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/66/