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    open council. 283

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    Djsar Miss Mebrtweather, Brisbane, July ...

    vinced that I need not have made myself uneasy about it . It is as easy to get places here without a recommendation as with one , unless the parties

    for have a been little notoriousl time to seek y bad for , recentl another y . p When lace , or I was a lod about ging , to but leave was I at asked first refused . My mistress said it was not considered at all necessary to give

    servants time to go after any other place out here ; that some did let them have a little time sometimes , but that girls must not consider they had any good right to lace it . without Her other any servant warning was ; she dismissed did not from even what know was that thoug she ht was a very not

    giving p satisfaction , till she was told to go , and she had to pack up and leave colonial at once . I know which the girl ' s le only fault ht to was excuse being in rather those newl slow and arrived unused . M to ways y y

    brother hired , a house peop before I oug leftbut if I had not had friends I should have felt my place rather desolate . It , is a very perilous thing for a girl to find

    herself such homes friendless as they in a can strange earn place for themselves and liable , at at any the time caprice to be of turned unjust out em of - marriages ployers , and or it fall is even scarcel lower y to in be their wondered circumstances at , that they . To often feel make as if no unwise one

    cared for them , is a great help to caring but little what becomes of themselves . I should like to see a permanent home established to receive them in , on their arrival , and to form a refuge while they are out of place at any time in the

    fare future of , the under the women care of . a A matron little kind who would advice take and a a real few friendl interest hints in the about welwhat they must young expect to put up with , and what they had better y avoid , from

    such and h a aving person the , mi certainty ght go a great of a way respectable toward p smoothing lace to go their to for first a difficulties day or two ; Such when a they lace wanted would one serve , would as a , I think istry , hel office p to for keep the them girls out instead of bad of company going to .

    the agents p in the town , some reg of whom are hardly trustworth , y . Every one could afford to contribute something from her earnings towards the support well of such as to a p those lace , who and its may benefit come . mi T g hey ht be would extended not be to obli those ged to alread be idle y here , while , as

    mi In waiting loyers g the ht be town there to self know , - and , s as upporting washin they that their pay g in and as a servants little well needlework as while were anything , and not could . it quit , would I I e should think so dependent act , always think as a check such be as procured th on a ey p em lace are - .

    now p . The , town is full of boarding-houses , but they are mostly filled by ment single , would men , and not are cost hardl a very y suitable great deal for , I a think servant . A to household go to . Such out here an experi is not

    volent can so formidable be peop arranged le at an home or affair disposed would as it is of think in , in Eng a of day land it . or ; I two all think . that I the wish is emp necessary some loyers of to here you form would bene one

    be willing to assist if a plan were formed , as it would ensure them a better chance of getting respectable servants . I have said nothing yet about going into the bush ; what I have seen and .

    heard is confined chiefly to the town and its vicinity . Those who go with families hear and equality , I think into there the they interior between are generall , make mistress y longer kindl and y engagements treated servant . than There , and in the is from more town wh . symp at A I lad ath can y y

    who has resided on stations in the colony , a good many years , gave me aix protected account of and the well manner treated of life if they there behave , and she with says propriety that girls . are One almost day a always

    shepthing herd , offensive who had to dran her k servant rather . too She much happened , came to into be there her kitchen herself , and cooking said some some - him chops and , and the she u instantl nfortunate y snatched man was the obli pan ged off to " the beat fire a speed and sent y retreat its contents with the at

    chops , flying about his earsand the boiling fat running down his face . Where the women are situated as some , of them are out here , they learn to stand by one

    another and act with spirit when occasion requires , and no one thinks of

    Open Council. 283

    open _council . 283

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1862, page 283, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121862/page/67/