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    THE TOMAHAWK: A SATURDAY JOURNAL OF SATI...

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    No. 74] LONDON, OCTOBER 3, 1868. [Price ...

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    WOMAN AND HER MISTRESS.

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    No. 4.—Summing up. Having pointed out so...

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    The Tomahawk: A Saturday Journal Of Sati...

    THE TOMAHAWK : A SATURDAY JOURNAL OF SATIRE . " I 1 SCVITAT CULPAM QUI PECCATUM PRETERIT . "

    No. 74] London, October 3, 1868. [Price ...

    No . 74 ] LONDON , OCTOBER 3 , 1868 . [ Price Twopence .

    Woman And Her Mistress.

    WOMAN AND HER MISTRESS .

    No. 4.—Summing Up. Having Pointed Out So...

    No . 4 . —Summing up . Having pointed out some of the principal evils which affect how the condition these evils of femal be e s all ervants eviated , we if will not now entirel endeavour remedied to . show As we said before may , the mischief , begins in earl y y yearsin the education which girls receive in their own homes . You , cannot expect the daughters of slatternly wasteful mothers to make clean and frugal women . But even in those cases where the parents give their children the best education which they can afford rarely , one the of system any , practical on which benefit that education to them . Most is conducted clergymen , is and Ladies Bountiful think it a great thing to get girls to the Sunday-school . No doubt this is better than no education at all , but it appears to us that there is one great fundamental mistake in our Sunday-school teaching , and that is , that in aiming to teach religion thoroughly , it only succeeds in teaching theology very imperfectly , and morality not at all . Much too great importance is given to Bible history , to the exclusion of the New Testament morality . We will not say more on this subject , for so great is the prejudice in minds of earnest Protestants against any limitation of Bible teaching , and so utterly confused are the minds of the mass of the laity and clergy as regards we should the incur true great value dange and position r of being of misrepresented the Old Testament if not , that of being misunderstood . We will content ourselves with expressing , a belief that it is not a wise thing to put unreservedly a book so

    difficult for the educated to understand into the hands of advance those , "who has have been had made practically latelin no the education matter of education at all . Great but there is still much to be done y before our schools for the poor , or for the rich either , can offer that training which is alone of , any real use in after life , —a training which , discouraging superficial shall smartness instruct the and young the mere in those varnish princi of ples accomp which lishments are the , foundation , of all morality and of all religion ; shall enforce those habits without which no character of sterling worth can be formed ; and shall imbue the moral nature with that conscientious sense of duty , that noble purpose in life , which finds very as full highest scope positions for employment which this in world the very can humblest offer . as in the educ Bes ation ides the home education . As we at school have pointed , there is out the if more there important is danger in fields neglect and , so in suffering never learn the ch at ildren self- t restraint o run wild means , in the there stree ts or greater to desp , ise danger the s t in ation those of better their parents off , of bring and ing to asp up ire their , to children the society of those above them in the world , . This rude attempt at " equality " is as common among the higher as among the lower classes ; and the persevering efforts to destroy the dist tinctions he creation of rank of a class wealth of girls on , whose the part only of hope parents is in result trading in on the charms Nature or Art may have given them ; for they are kn utterl ow y about unfit to money be at being the head how of to a waste family , it the . If only women thing really they wish together to improve for the purpose the condition of destroy of their ing the sex d , yn let as t h y em of Frivo combine lity which now holds undisputed the throne of Society . We can

    imagine no movement more calculated to elevate woman in the eyes of man , than an organised opposition to the practice , now ni so g prevalent ht of the week , of allowing during that girls elastic to go period to some termed party or " the other season every . " If at least two nights a week were kept sacred to the quiet routine of home pleasures and home duties—if all the daughters and of a famil superintend y were made the domestic to learn to arrangements manage the house generall expenses y , for a , week at a . time , we believe that marriage—that goal of all girls ' hopes—would be far less difficult of attainment , and when attained at present , would constituted be far hap . If pier mistresses than it ever were can able be to as manage Society is a household , and to check the expenses properly , the extravagance and affectation of servants would be effectually checked ; they would learn to respect their employers when they found that they could not cheat them . With regard to those girls who fulfil the duties of vicarious a moth home erhood where , we they have will this be suggestion taught useful to make labour . Let where us g their ive them services will be rigidly exacted in return for the benefits , received b the y them duties , and of whence wet nurses they can knowing go forth that , with their a character children , w to ill fulfil be cared for by the Institution , which has sheltered them in the exp hour ired of , their they shall need , be and able to which to return , after , their if they time cannot of service get any is employment other situation . , They there would to continue of course their bring education characters in some from usefu the l person who had previously , employed , them ; and so any one engaging them from this kind of Institution would be certain

    01 not Deing imposed upon Dy laise recommendations . Although there would be many difficulties at first in inducing that girls to when avail they themselves saw how of great such a chance an Institution was given , still them , we believe of recovering , their good name , and how a place of safety was asinstead sured to of them being whither , as they to are return now from left their to their temporary own resources situation or , to the uncertain charity or enforced , contributions of those held responsible by the Law , they would overcome their dislike to proclaim their condition before they were actually compelled to do so . We honestly entreat all , who have any desire to rescue poor girls from a life of degradation and misery , to consider this scheme so roughly sketched . we other As will to servant say the a temptation few girl words s , are . exposed to The wh immediat ich in nursemaids our e parks greed or especiall of public admiration streets y , and , , which is held characterises by some men these to justif ignoran y the t attentions and silly creatures which they , no proffer doubt . But we would put it to those who wish to be men in something headed more than girls name who , whether are ready prowling to swallow after the sill bait y , vain however , and empty plain - the hook may , show through it , is either a noble , or a profitaJjlc employment 1 Finally , it remains for us all , however small our influence , to do what we can to elevate the condition of those on whose services b we y so examp muc le h , depend most by . a Something quiet perseverance may be done and by a watchful precept , more vigilance in seeking opportunities for holding out to all those below us the same incitements , the same helps , the same guides which we ourselves have enjoyed , and to which , in a great measure , we owe what superior ity over them we may possess .

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  • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Oct. 3, 1868, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_03101868/page/1/