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EWJ-1863-07-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | (As these pages are intended for general discussion, the Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed.)
To the Editors of the English Woman's Journal.
LADIES,
I may perhaps be allowed to write a few words in explanation of the passage quoted from Dr. Murchison's book, in the article on Fever... | 1 | 4,075 | 164 | 4,239 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_66 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | LIV.—OPEN COUNCIL. | 1 | 4,075 | 9 | 4,084 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_66 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 67 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | in 10,000, and this estimate may be considered generally true both for town and country air. The proportion only rises in crowded localities such as mines, close rooms, churches or theatres, volcanic districts, and other places where large quantities of the gas are being generated and exhaled. It is plain that the pres... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,508 | 7,226 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_67 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 68 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | To return to the subject of the non-maintenance of the wives and families by the husband, a most sad and horrible story has just appeared in the *Lincolnshire Chronicle*, headed “Desertion and Death,” to which I wish to call the attention of those belonging to the Temperance movement.
An inquest was held early in June... | 1 | 3,819 | 663 | 4,482 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 68 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | RESPECTED LADIES, I am told that if I write to you, you will put my letter into print, and then perhaps some one will see what I want to get altered about the Post Office Savings Banks. I am in service, and have saved up a little bit of money, and I put into a Post Office Savings Bank.
It happens that I am very comfor... | 1 | 4,075 | 196 | 4,271 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 68 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | - Yours faithfully,
J. B. | 1 | 4,075 | 10 | 4,085 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 69 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | quite ready to do my duty, and help my father and mother, who are very poor; but we are a large family, and I must confess, some are not very industrious, and then they are glad to live upon those who they think can help them, and don't care to do any good for themselves—and you see, if once they find out you are tryin... | 1 | 2,859 | 776 | 3,635 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 69 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Ed. ["E.W.J."]
Glasgow, Saturday, Nov. 11, 1865.
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EWJ-1863-07-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | BRUSSELS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF | 1 | 4,203 | 20 | 4,223 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | SECOND SESSION, Ghent, 1863. From Monday, September 14th, to Saturday, September 19th. Honorary Presidents, M. Le Prince de Ligne, Speaker of the Senate; M. Vervoort, Speaker of the Chamber of Representatives; M. Charles Rogier, Minister of Foreign Affairs; President, M. Fontainas, Burgomaster of Brussels; General Secr... | 1 | 4,203 | 487 | 4,690 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | text | 5 | Section I. Comparative Legislation. 1. How can imprisonment pending trial be best preserved from abuse, and from prejudicing the defence of the accused, consistently with a due regard to public security? 2. Can capital punishment be abolished or restricted? 3. Under what guarantees, and by what legal enactments or trea... | 1 | 4,203 | 255 | 4,458 | B0C1R5 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | SOCIAL SCIENCE.
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EWJ-1863-07-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | title | 4 | QUESTIONS PROPOSED FOR DISCUSSION. | 1 | 4,203 | 9 | 4,212 | B0C1R4 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 71 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | well as boys? 4. What is the influence upon education of prefixed courses and competitive examinations? 5. Is it expedient to introduce into the education of all classes the study of their national institutions? 6. Ought the State to subject the exercises of the liberal professions to special guarantees?
Sect. III. Ar... | 1 | 3,051 | 751 | 3,802 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_71 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 72 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In the distribution of the Civil List Pensions for the past year, the following ladies have received pensions. Miss Frances Browne, 100., on account of her works in prose and poetry, composed in spite of blindness existing from birth. Mrs. O'Donovan, 50., in consideration of the late Dr. O'Donovan's valuable contributi... | 1 | 3,051 | 814 | 3,865 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_72 |
EWJ-1863-07-01 | 72 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | LV.—PASSING EVENTS.
The following is a list of the principal events which have occurred in the Metropolis and its vicinity during the past week:—
On Monday, the 1st inst., Mr. John Smith, of the firm of Smith and Co., died at his residence in Bloomsbury-square. The deceased was a man of considerable wealth, and had b... | 1 | 4,203 | 2,000 | 6,203 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-07-01_page_72 |
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EWJ-1862-09-01 | 1 | 1 | 0 | text | 3 | .
PUBLISHED MONTHLY. | 1 | 4,075 | 10 | 4,085 | B1C0R3 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 1 | 1 | 0 | title | 2 | ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNAL. | 1 | 4,075 | 11 | 4,086 | B1C0R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 1 | 1 | 1 | text | 4 | . . . VON. X. . . | 1 | 505 | 10 | 515 | B1C1R4 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 1 | 1 | 2 | text | 5 | September 1, 1862. | 1 | 505 | 10 | 515 | B1C2R5 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 1 | 1 | 3 | text | 6 | No. 55. | 1 | 505 | 8 | 513 | B1C3R6 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 1 | 2 | 0 | text | 8 | A remarkable book has lately been running the round of the public press, which reads like a series of illustrations of La Folie Lucide. It is so fresh and lifelike, so full of the delicate painting which alone can do justice to the complexity of the feminine organization, even when set all astray, that we believe concl... | 1 | 4,075 | 120 | 4,195 | B2C0R8 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 1 | 2 | 0 | text | 9 | The author, whose name is not given, says on the first pages that she wishes it "to be clearly understood that these are the honest reminiscences of one retired from Government service—that many years of prison experience enable her to offer her readers a fair statement of life and adventure at Brixton and Millbank pri... | 1 | 4,075 | 354 | 4,429 | B2C0R9 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 1 | 2 | 0 | title | 7 | I.—FEMALE LIFE IN PRISON.
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EWJ-1862-09-01 | 1 | 2 | 1 | text | 10 | VOL. X. | 1 | 505 | 5 | 510 | B2C1R10 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 2 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Yet do they live, and count as we do the days of the week and the days of the month. Breakfast and dinner and supper arrive and pass for this dreary population, and each knows that it is the 1st of September, 1862, as well as any reader who glances over these pages. For the date which to you means Magazine day, or bird... | 1 | 4,075 | 473 | 4,548 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_2 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 2 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Millbank, when the writer was a child, occupied a large open space where it was possible to find daisies and buttercups, and always dimly represented a country walk. The ground-plan of the building resembles a wheel, the governor's house occupying a circle in the centre, from which radiate six piles of building, termin... | 1 | 4,075 | 226 | 4,301 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_2 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 3 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | It is a prison for male and female convicts. In charge of the female compartment are assistant matrons on probation, assistant matrons, reception-matron, principal matrons, latterly a chief matron on whom the practical working of the prison really devolves. The sole superintendence is now vested in Mrs. Gibson.
The ar... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,369 | 7,087 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_3 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 3 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | It would appear that the discussions concerning the property of B 2 | 1 | 4,075 | 13 | 4,088 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_3 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 4 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | married women had been fully appreciated by the class from which our prisoners are chiefly drawn, and that the women had acuteness enough to draw a meagre though imaginary consolation from the disabilities under which they labor! It may well be conceived, however, that even kicking, scratching, and swearing, as sometim... | 1 | 3,691 | 516 | 4,207 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_4 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 4 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | These conditions are far more favorable than women usually secure in their work; on the other hand, the duties are heavy. The prison matron is at her post from 6 in the morning till 9 in the evening three days a week; and from 6 till 6 on the other three. There is a “Sunday out” occasionally, and during the year there ... | 1 | 4,075 | 169 | 4,244 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_4 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 5 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | We recommend this chapter on the Matrons to all our readers who may be interested in the organization of the higher and more responsible kinds of female labor. Mrs. Jameson mentions the Brixton and Fulham establishments, into which the convicts successively pass from Millbank, and gives several pages of her "Letter to ... | 1 | 4,203 | 384 | 4,587 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_5 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 5 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | : The bulk of the prisoners, however, are not darkly mysterious beings of an intelligent or reflective order, but wild women, in whom a certain uproarious violence seems the uniform characteristic. A sort of uncontrollable desire for excitement seizes them at intervals, which, as they cannot get spirits to drink, or in... | 1 | 4,203 | 276 | 4,479 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_5 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 6 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | as this occurring: "Miss G., I'm going to break out to-night." "Oh, nonsense! you won't think of any such folly, I'm sure." Persuasion is generally attempted first, as breakings out are exceedingly inconvenient. "I'm sure I shall then." "What for?" "Well, I've made up my mind, that's what for; I shall break out to-nigh... | 1 | 2,923 | 668 | 3,591 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_6 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 6 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Now and then the women become insane, but it is hard to say whether the seeds of madness lurked in them before or no. Celes- | 1 | 4,075 | 31 | 4,106 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_6 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 7 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | tina Sommer, condemned for a brutal murder of her child, after whom, however, she never seemed to fret, gradually weakened in intellect, and had finally to be sent to Fisherton Asylum. Even at the best of times, their tricks and their daring are on the verge of sanity. Imagine women, who, for the sake of being sent to ... | 1 | 3,243 | 573 | 3,816 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_7 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 7 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | " Mary May was a prisoner of a different stamp—only in for petty larceny; a little weak in the wits, but affecting a supreme contempt for the other prisoners. "I can't speak to 'em, Miss," she would say confidentially, "they are such a set of rubbitch." She was partial to flattery and telling fortunes, and would promis... | 1 | 4,203 | 110 | 4,313 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_7 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 8 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | did not answer. “The matron’s fortune was in looking and unlocking, keeping a strict watch on her prisoners, and rising one pound five a year!” Then there was Solomons, an educated and even refined Jewess, in for receiving stolen goods—whose friends used to come to see her in silks and satins. And Trent, who was such a... | 1 | 2,987 | 518 | 3,505 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_8 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 8 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Pestalozzi, the friend of the people, the poor and the orphan, worked so gradually, found his own way in the improvement of the method of education so slowly, that we are scarcely aware how | 1 | 4,075 | 44 | 4,119 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_8 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 9 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | much we owe to him of the training we have received from our cradle, and of the pleasure we have had in learning our first rudiments.
His ideas on instruction and education are so natural and simple, that we scarcely realize that some one was required to teach them to the world. He first made school a home; and taught... | 1 | 3,179 | 602 | 3,781 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_9 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 9 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Heinrich Pestalozzi was born at Zurich on January 12th, 1746. Being persecuted in the canton of Tessin on account of their reformed faith, his ancestors had fled to that charming spot, so famous for onward striving and intellectual life in most periods of Swiss history. | 1 | 4,203 | 70 | 4,273 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_9 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 10 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | . When Heinrich was scarcely six years old, his father died; three little children were left to the care of a dear tender mother, faithfully assisted by a servant, whom the dying father had begg'd not to abandon his wife. She kept her promise religiously, shared all the privations of the poor family, and lightened the ... | 1 | 2,987 | 636 | 3,623 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_10 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 10 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | That he might be able to do good, Pestalozzi wished to be a preacher; but his first attempt failed; he could not limit himself to the given form,—a parish seemed too small a field for his ardent desire. | 1 | 4,075 | 52 | 4,127 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_10 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 11 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Then he turned to the law, thinking that would afford him greater scope to redress the wrongs of the people. He studied very hard, and opposed bravely many abuses committed by the magistrates; to one of such tender feelings as Pestalozzi, it was a time of much work and suffering; he found the road too intricate and too... | 1 | 2,987 | 602 | 3,589 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_11 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 11 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Meantime, he became acquainted with Anna Schultheiss, the daughter of a rich merchant. Notwithstanding his poverty, his | 1 | 4,203 | 28 | 4,231 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_11 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 12 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | unpleasing and untidy appearance, and a sincere confession of all his failings, she loved, and sympathised with him.
Her parents at first objected to her sharing the fate of an unpractical dreamer; but at last they consented, and in 1769 Pestalozzi led his wife into his new house at Neuhof, full of happi-ness and hope... | 1 | 4,075 | 438 | 4,513 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_12 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 12 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Pestalozzi did not succeed in his agricultural experiment—he could not deal with money; the table drawer was his money box; each took out of it what he wanted. The Zurich firm investigated the failing business, withdrew with great loss, and left the unfortunate man to his fate. Another attempt to establish a dairy farm... | 1 | 4,075 | 231 | 4,306 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_12 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 13 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | blishment for fifty children that same year. Whilst they worked, he and his wife taught them to speak, to sing, to count, to pray, to use their senses; thus forming their minds and warming their hearts.
But Pestalozzi was too good to be able to master unruly boys; all kinds of irregularities broke in; he was cheated o... | 1 | 3,243 | 567 | 3,810 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_13 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 13 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In this time of great misery and poverty, Pestalozzi again came to Zurich. Many of his friends considered him past all help, when by a lucky chance, the painter Füssli (or Fuseli, as he was called when settled in London) accidentally discovered his friend's talent for writing. At that time the government was about to a... | 1 | 4,075 | 92 | 4,167 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_13 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 14 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | soldiers in their stead. Many did not like the innovation, among others Pestalozzi and Füssli; the former in a humorous mood wrote a pasquinade on a slip of paper. It lay on Füssli's desk, when in the course of conversation he took it up, read it through, re-read it with astonishment, and then called out: "Who wrote th... | 1 | 2,987 | 690 | 3,677 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_14 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 14 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | ---- . . . . Zschokke, one of his life-long friends, who was at this time sent to Stantz as pro-consul to establish order in the desolate place, was grieved to see that Pestalozzi was looked upon either as a simpleton | 1 | 4,075 | 57 | 4,132 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_14 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 16 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Often, when they were perfectly quiet, he would ask them with a kind smile: “Is it not easier to become good and reasonable when you are quiet, dear children, than when you make a noise?” When they embraced him and called him father, he would say, “Children, can you deceive your father? Is it right to kiss me, and to d... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,255 | 6,973 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_16 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 17 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | him to the grave, when the progress of things connected with the war compelled him to give up the school. The French again entered Stantz; and the orphan asylum was turned into a hospital; the good man was obliged to disperse the children, who all sobbed and cried in taking leave of “Father Pestalozzi.” Now, again, the... | 1 | 4,075 | 398 | 4,473 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_17 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 17 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | After eight months, an examination was held in presence of the Inspectors of the district, who were well satisfied and convinced that the children's faculties had really been developed. Unfortunately, after a year, illness obliged the devoted teacher to give up the promising school; but Burgdorf had made him acquainted... | 1 | 4,075 | 261 | 4,336 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_17 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 18 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | promised as pupils, and they kindly paid in advance. He took Krüsi with his orphans to the castle, and they worked conjointly. More pupils were confided to their care; at last, notwithstanding continual pecuniary difficulties, with the assistance of three other teachers, they worked successfully. The children had hard ... | 1 | 3,949 | 215 | 4,164 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 18 | 1 | 0 | title | 2 | .
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EWJ-1862-09-01 | 18 | 2 | 0 | title | 3 | .
III.—THE DYING CHILD. | 1 | 3,949 | 10 | 3,959 | B2C0R3 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 18 | 3 | 0 | text | 5 | "I cannot leave thee, Mother, " | 1 | 3,949 | 9 | 3,958 | B3C0R5 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 18 | 3 | 0 | text | 6 | O say not I must die: Lie closer to me, Mother, | 1 | 3,949 | 14 | 3,963 | B3C0R6 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 18 | 3 | 0 | text | 7 | And let me feel thee nigh. | 1 | 3,949 | 9 | 3,958 | B3C0R7 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 18 | 3 | 0 | text | 8 | .
"I care not for my treasures, | 1 | 3,949 | 11 | 3,960 | B3C0R8 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 18 | 3 | 0 | text | 9 | They cannot ease my pain, For me are no more pleasures, I ne'er shall smile again. | 1 | 3,949 | 21 | 3,970 | B3C0R9 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 18 | 3 | 0 | text | 10 | " But the Angel must not tear me | 1 | 3,949 | 8 | 3,957 | B3C0R10 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 18 | 3 | 0 | text | 11 | From thee, my Mother dear; He must not, must not bear me | 1 | 3,949 | 16 | 3,965 | B3C0R11 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 18 | 3 | 0 | text | 12 | .
- From all that love me here." | 1 | 3,949 | 9 | 3,958 | B3C0R12 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 18 | 3 | 0 | text | 13 | .
MOTHER. | 1 | 3,949 | 4 | 3,953 | B3C0R13 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 18 | 3 | 0 | text | 14 | " My precious darling, cheer thee, Thou goest to thy home; Thy Saviour will be near thee, And beckon thee to come. | 1 | 3,949 | 39 | 3,988 | B3C0R14 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 18 | 3 | 0 | text | 15 | " Then when thy God shall call thee Be ready at His voice, No evil can befall thee, | 1 | 3,949 | 24 | 3,973 | B3C0R15 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 18 | 3 | 0 | text | 16 | In thy Father's love rejoice. " And when the Angel flying | 1 | 3,949 | 14 | 3,963 | B3C0R16 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 18 | 3 | 0 | text | 17 | On wings of peace and love, Shall summon thee, when dying | 1 | 3,949 | 15 | 3,964 | B3C0R17 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 18 | 3 | 0 | text | 18 | Lift up thy hands above; " | 1 | 3,949 | 8 | 3,957 | B3C0R18 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 18 | 3 | 0 | title | 4 | .
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EWJ-1862-09-01 | 19 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | " Then shall we know thou'rt rising Above the fear of death, That all things here despising Thou yieldest up thy breath."
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Death's Angel now comes near her with gentle noiseless tread, And softly lays his cool damp hand upon her aching head; The restless little sufferer is still and placid now, And heavenl... | 1 | 3,235 | 270 | 3,505 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_19 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 19 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | True men and brethren! deem not woman's gain Shall be your loss! Which labor of the twain Bears best returns and richest—slave? or free? Be just, then! as true men should ever be, And true love is, which man ne'er cherished yet But he in love his lordship did forget, (For true love yearns to give, to serve, to bless! S... | 1 | 3,235 | 235 | 3,470 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_19 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 19 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | . . . . And for you, | 1 | 3,235 | 8 | 3,243 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_19 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 20 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | A gilded merchandise to buy or sell; A drudge to trample on, or slave to quell,— But a true, God-made help-meet, in your need Who comfort and sweet help shall lend indeed, Needing not yours to stand by, though she cling Thereto for dear love's sake; meet, not to fling Dead weights of household selfishness i' the scale ... | 1 | 3,563 | 422 | 3,985 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_20 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 20 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | A PAPER READ AT THE MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE, LONDON, 1862.
In re-introducing the subject of female emigration, there will be no necessity for a recapitulation of the several reasons that induced us to consider the colonies as fields likely to yield a very fruitful harvest.
* Fro... | 1 | 3,465 | 118 | 3,583 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_20 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 20 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | V.—FEMALE MIDDLE CLASS EMIGRATION. | 1 | 3,465 | 14 | 3,479 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_20 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 21 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | to that large body, the over-worked and under-paid women of this country.
There will be no necessity to repeat again how many persons apply, and apply in vain, for one situation; nor shall I detail the many hideous straits into which thousands of our fellow countrywomen are driven, while seeking daily bread. I feel I ... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,404 | 7,122 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_21 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 22 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | tendency to go wrong; the colonies are the worst possible places to send her, for the temptations to vice are not lessened abroad, all restraint being at once removed, and moreover a false step taken there can never be retraced; 2nd, that the congregation of women in masses has a weakening and deleterious effect on cha... | 1 | 3,051 | 531 | 3,582 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_22 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 22 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | I say peculiar circumstances, not exactly that I believe the isolation or the temptations to be more peculiar or more severe than in London; my own judgment and conviction rather leading me to believe, that a woman who can resist the temptations of London, | 1 | 3,949 | 55 | 4,004 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_22 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | is a woman capable of passing seamlessly through the moral perils of a sea-voyage, and defying the debaucheries of a colony.
Indeed, the women we have hitherto sent abroad, have for the greater part undergone such a baptism of sorrow here, that unless we are greatly mistaken, the remainder of their lives, however "lig... | 1 | 3,051 | 560 | 3,611 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_23 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Of the necessity which exists for using great discrimination in sifting the evidence of both friends and opponents to this movement, I shall adduce two instances. About twelve months ago, I was | 1 | 3,825 | 38 | 3,863 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_23 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 24 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | introduced to a lady of rank who had just returned from the colonies. Being a person of position, she was well acquainted with Government House and the _élite_ of the town; being also an active and benevolent woman, she was practically acquainted with ragged schools and the outcast population,—she could tell of the pur... | 1 | 3,499 | 491 | 3,990 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_24 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 24 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | There are evidently two classes of women who may very safely be sent abroad. Firstly, a few really accomplished governesses who can and who do command from £40 to £100 a year in England. Such ladies would be sure to obtain in the bush employment far superior in a monetary point of view to that in which they are at pres... | 1 | 3,703 | 145 | 3,848 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_24 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 25 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | engaged in some out-of-door cheerful occupation or amusement; really, and not nominally, one of the family. It is very necessary that such candidates should be musical; indeed an undue importance is in the colonies attached to musical talents. Such persons may emigrate to Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane, and Nata... | 1 | 3,051 | 565 | 3,616 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_25 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 25 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | * Adelaide. Algoa Bay. Auckland. Canterbury. Cape Town.
Fremantle. Hobart Town. Launceston. Melbourne. Moreton Bay.
Nelson. Otago. Natal. Sydney. Wellington. | 1 | 3,825 | 56 | 3,881 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_25 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 26 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | any more of that class. During the past two months I have had considerable experience on the subject, and I am now inclined to give much greater encouragement to the emigration of really accomplished women. I am now tolerably well known as taking great interest in the condition of governesses, and am receiving constant... | 1 | 3,179 | 541 | 3,720 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_26 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 26 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | These are the women who are most especially to be pitied, and whose cases require your greatest assistance. ... Formerly we drew our best and most trustworthy servants from these classes, i.e. as far as these classes then existed; now we offer them the seductions of local position and fame through our National schools,... | 1 | 3,949 | 88 | 4,037 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_26 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 27 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | and shut our ears to the licence allowed in some warehouse work rooms. We see with little concern silly mothers teaching by example, if not by actual precept, these poor young souls just entering on the solemn battle-field of life, that showy dress, the theatre, Rosherville, and a quick barter in the marriage market, a... | 1 | 3,051 | 662 | 3,713 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_27 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 27 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | I proposed the introduction of such a class of women into Australia, last December. Perhaps you will permit me to inform you how that proposition was received. The Melbourne Herald | 1 | 4,203 | 36 | 4,239 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_27 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 28 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | printed my letter, and the following comment was subjoined:— “Miss Rye proposes sending out women to these colonies of a class a little above that of ordinary female servants. As our space was so occupied with Parliamentary proceedings, it is quite possible that the letter was overlooked, or that it did not at all even... | 1 | 3,435 | 510 | 3,945 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_28 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 28 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "Let such only determine to throw away their pride, and come prepared to face the world with courage in the colonies, and they must do. Wages vary about the place (and for many miles round in a populous and thriving district) from £20 to £40 per annum, with such food, indulgence as to natural enjoyments, and general tr... | 1 | 4,075 | 130 | 4,205 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_28 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 29 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | handshakes of a settler's life. The mail closes to-morrow; so I have only time to write this hurried letter, to encourage you and others in your kind efforts. I may address you again on that subject, and shall be found one amongst many who will aid your undertaking when sufficiently developed."
The present rate of wag... | 1 | 3,115 | 563 | 3,678 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_29 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 29 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Let me warn all intending colonists, wherever their lot may be cast, that unless they work well and walk uprightly they will inevitably fail to reap the advantages to which we have been just alluding. Let no one delude you into believing, that competence, and comfort can be obtained in Australia without work. Be con- | 1 | 3,949 | 71 | 4,020 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_29 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 30 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | tent that both may be realized by average abilities and moderate exertion. Some mistakes and some disappointments must necessarily arise in carrying out this scheme, but with a right selection of candidates and a fair start, I am as certain of success as if the finger of prophecy pictured the result.
MARIA S. RYE.
Ju... | 1 | 3,825 | 78 | 3,903 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_30 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 30 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | PART II.
NEEDLEWORK v. DOMESTIC SERVICE.
Though the employments of women are but small matters compared to the great subjects with which legislators have to do, they may afford some clue to information derivable from no census calculations, and which no statistics can supply.
In the State provision for the education... | 1 | 3,947 | 389 | 4,336 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_30 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 30 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | VI.—CULTIVATION OF FEMALE INDUSTRY IN IRELAND. | 1 | 3,825 | 21 | 3,846 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_30 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 31 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | remedial effects are discernible, assistance should be administered. Industrial culture must be undertaken according to this rule in order to achieve success. Institutions and projects not so regulated must be utterly abortive, and, while they attest good intentions, make remarkable the ignorance of those who attempt t... | 1 | 2,987 | 554 | 3,541 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_31 |
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