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    OPEN COTJNCU.. 285

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    To the JEclito?* of the JEnglish Womatfs...

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    To The Editoi* Of The English Woman"*S J...

    which annum paid ; and £ 4 latel annual y there rent was , the a hi row ghest of six hid cottages for the whole put up was to auction under , £ each 90 . of It seems therefore tliat the more accommodation you make for a tenant , the

    is buy to less determined build interest of the Cottages builder does upon without the , when the rent proprietor some finished pay the other : landlord should that motive to not avoid : hesides that huild trouble it investment does by or not a der low answer or , hut rent con if t generall rac building must t , but be y under favorable

    circum charged stances or tenants , by judicious will be pur likel chases y to , q and uit : good that cottages agement will pay more interest attended than with any more ' other trouble property than pet other manentl kind y inv _^ of ested , erty but . that I think they that are

    these facts may be confidently relied any upon as far as they prop go , And heg to remain , Madam ,

    Yours truly ,

    _November 12 th , 1859 . _K . T .

    Open Cotjncu.. 285

    OPEN COTJNCU .. 285

    To The Jeclito?* Of The Jenglish Womatfs...

    To the JEclito _?* of the JEnglish _Womatfs Journal ,

    Apropos op the Governess ( _Question , Dear Madam ,

    also been aid A in a friend a governess supporting shop- of woman mine in her a , who a famil famil milliner has y y , , and had has , a her housekeeper for taken decided many many years op , teacher di inion ffer to ent support is in that situations several the herself position schools . , She and , of and has to a fact isthe has

    entering recognised qu governess alified that to is position give the difficult hardest advice whatever , prickl to of young all y , , and and to women bear up my hill . friend , pathway The would who earnestl . from The , her y other dissuade governess experience ways them are is hard from well no , indand brave irit

    will and , find in a that social a point happier of life view can , humbler be made , but in all an probability ependent as a teacher sp in a public as a _housekeeper school for working , than , as men a ' s governess children , . as This a shop a - dvice woman is , as addressed a milliner by , or a .

    working Allow me woman to remark to women tliat going it is not out to quite work fair . to lay all the blame of the hundred ployers hardshi . ps A and gTeat discomforts part are of at the all under fit evil for which consists the work governesses in which the fact they suffer th have at upon not undertaken their ten in em a -

    therefore or rather governesses which laced they themselves are driven in a b false y dire position necessity , and to are undertake often treated , and have with , something p like contempt , because they profess to teach what they do not

    and know until . Until there women are fewer who go out to teach in the are trained market for the work of will teaching be ill , paid and le ill in treated general . are consistentl governesses Christian or un , - governesses Christianand they do

    fellow not Peop make -creatures a point , of but behaving a governess worse ' y s to position their governesses is worse than than most to , their positions other .

    Probably most governesses if grown rich -would treat their governesses just as not they to have become been treated . We : by end refraining where we from began entering , by pray that ing happy young profession women

    they would benefit governesses themselves and others . I am , Madam , yours obediently ,

    B . L . S . _Bodichox .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 285, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/69/