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OPEN COUNCIL 283
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To the Editor of the English Woman*s Jou...
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there how it is can the inevitable ever be entirel communication y satisfactory with in the a adult workhouse women I do not of see whom , as many
are the most undesirable companions for girls ; and it is almost , impossible to teach them industrial work without this intermixture . and
all At that the is district wanted schools in them , this is part the of introduction their training of * voluntary is almost interest perfect , and supervision sympathy , which the might irls be when done they by leave lady visitors the schools , and a The better want system of this of
any is in difficulty a great over measure in placing g the the root g of irls much , it is after afterwards evil , for that it . is they not fall that into there bad is ways , and for probabl wonder y return that to respectable the workhouse families . After decline that to return take them it can ; the be
no cause shortest residence in the " adult ward " would render such an experiment a very workhouse rash one training , and can nothing give but can a make jmrifi us cation hope and to be " reform able to ., " arrest such as their no
downward career . , tliat With the present regard to interest tradesmen that ' s is families awakened , I may with be regard allowe to d to middle indul - ge class a hope edufor friendless
cation hans , will than ere th long are make considered such situations to be more at present desirable . When poor we remember tliat orp these girls ey almost universally belong to best the laces lowest but class both , I think
and there economy is no reason demand to expect that they for should them the be well p trained , in the schools reason full for the protected state of life when to they which first it has go out pleased into Grod the dangers to call them and , the as well temptations as
careof an y unknown world . Yours truly ,
November 3 rd . L .
Open Council 283
OPEN _COUNCIL 283
To The Editor Of The English Woman*S Jou...
To the Editor of the English Woman * s Journal *
Madam , had for I the understand some Laboring correspondence that Classes you , wish with with 'for a a information view gentleman to their of respecting improvement property Cottage in the . I country s have and Homes latel who y
make has much any experience such dwellings in the a pay subject ing concern ; I regret to to their say owners that it . _seeans difficult to There are few laborers in the country who in a general way can earn
less more . than And eleven when the or various twelve shillings of per a we famil ek . are The taken great into maj con ority sidera even - dren tion ; food etc , it clothing is hard , boots to expect and expenses more shoes , than occasional one shilling y illness a , schooling week for lodg for ings
chiland indeed , ., this is about the rent which the agricultural laborers in the com- , be mone erected st cottages of substantial generally materials do j ) ay . under _JSTow a two pair hundred of decent and cottages twenty can pounds hardly , viz
two including bed-room the s necessary a _sej _> arate adjuncts washhouse which , well comfort , oven and , pi decency gstye , and require outhouse , . . , pounds This , as , a or speculation six , per , cent oug , ht in not the to gross produce , out less of which than thirteen expenses of or should ordin fourteen be
laborers deducted ; and whereas it is the the ordinary outside which class whose can be condition extracted it in is the desirable case to ameli ary - oratedoes , not amount to more than about five pounds for the double cottage .
owner The , consequence looks for no is , real that , profit excepting from the in large cottages properties of his laborers where the , the land poor - to else
peop their le dwellings are either fall ground into a by state heavy of hopeless rents which dilap th idation ey are and unable wiiu , aggravating pay , or
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 283, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/67/
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