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274 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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Jmy Life, And What Shall Women I Do , Wi...
be _icaight to be servants , and where tlieir religious and moral education shall not come to an utter standstill . The burden of teaching young servants can very rarely be ( wisely ) undertaken by the mistress of a large family , with
onl atte y mpted a moderate , unless income the servants ; and in are more thoroug affluent hly houses well known , it can and never trustworth be safel y y . In is an orp insuperable han asylums bar or to industrial their general schools _aj _> for lication servant the s , the irls expense have not of _enoiig which h
house-work to do , and that little is not p of the , same g kind as is needed in a gentleman ' s family . But in these homes nearly every kind of servants' work would be requiredand miht be thoroughltaught under the immediate
superintendence of , one of the g resident ladies , with y the aid of one or two older whilst and good the servants best scholars . . Each , promoted home might to afford be servants work for , would a small have cooking abundant school ,
laundry opportunity work to , learn waiting cooking , the care for the of linen family and and stores the , sick mending and p , ot , attendance house and on invalids , & c : and one or two of these arts , weII taught , to a well-trained
g irl h , for are a never couple in of want years , f would places fit so her long to as be they a useful _keej , ) h any and sort y servant of character ; and as , it would be , humanly speaking , a provision for life for her . And though the
actual number so educated might be small , it would be accumulative ; by at being school made , its influence a reward would for their be parents still further ' care spread , or for their and ser own van good ts so conduct trained
would be on the whole better and more willing teachers of other young _serj vant ) laces s , in for their those future who have situations been . strugg Small ling er homes to regain of this a lost kind character might in offer our
refages , for whom it is so hard now to find any safe situation at all . " Such , an Institution , or _Maisoii de Secour _, as we might call it if
once well established , would no doubt form a centre most valuable ; and it is impossible to limit its -work , or to say precisely in wliat
form , it would develop itself ; this would depend on the lady - directressor on that individual character on whom devolved the
, general management , and the amount of aid she could depend on from the ladies about her .
A residence for only a part of the year is spoken of as desirable , but as we know "the poor" we " have always with us , " we may
suppose it might be found well to arrange that some lady or ladies were always to be seen at the Institution , though they might take
it by turns to be there . " The second fact that is to be proved from these pages is , that anything
altogether which only limit tends s destroys the to n sep umb arat the er e of women reflected worker thu s , benefits but s occup injures ied which from the would efficien the rest naturall cy of of their the y be work class derived ; , and not
from the right performance of this part of their duty , by their families and their own class of society . " ¦ There are many ways in which this truth is pointed out : it is urged
that it is by the greater powers of sympathy that the gentlewoman can often do so much more for her fellow-creatures than her
uneducated sister can , that having been used to learn , all the daily experiences of home and work abroad are easily transmuted into practical
knowledge of what is wanted and how the want must be met . It is easy to see that a woman living with and loving her mother ,
father , sister , or brother , would have a broader sympathy fqr the
joys or griefs that belong to these relationships , that she would be
274 Notices Of Books.
274 _NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 274, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/58/
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