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EWJ-1862-09-01 | 31 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The girl’s domestic experience would be limited to the condition of the household in which she might be placed; and this probably would be so low in the scale of civilized life, that, while her feelings | 1 | 3,825 | 43 | 3,868 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_31 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 32 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | and affections are gaining the home roots whereby woman's nature can alone be nourished, she would be running the risk of forming habits that may bar her progress, and cause her to swell the ranks of the helpless among whom she lives.
There is something more than "The Family System" wanting for pauper girls in Ireland... | 1 | 3,051 | 548 | 3,599 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 32 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The virtues of our female population do not produce spontaneously the same sort of household conveniences and comforts as those indispensable to English family life. This condition cannot be got rid of. It is an idiosyncrasy. There are people in Ireland, | 1 | 4,075 | 57 | 4,132 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 33 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | as well as in France and Italy, who cannot conform to the habits and manners of their Saxon neighbors; but who, nevertheless, attain a civilization and refinement of their own. Differences are not necessarily inferiorities. Our girls "don't feel it in their bones" to wash, cook, and polish; and they do not readily yiel... | 1 | 3,115 | 564 | 3,679 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 33 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | There is great ground of complaint for the way in which the needlework manufactures of Ireland have been slighted. While they have been doing more than any other agency to elevate our depressed female population, and have formed a passage from pauperism to independent life which has been largely useful, the Vol. x.
D. | 1 | 4,075 | 73 | 4,148 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 34 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | notice taken of their efforts has not been such as to make them firm and increase their extent. Of one branch of these alone the advantages are manifest. The durability of the demand for them will be coequal with the existence of the sex and the "fashions" of the world, and it is certain that on one branch of them mach... | 1 | 2,859 | 677 | 3,536 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 34 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | * Ten years' income from needlework manufactures, £15,440,000 Sum used for emigration, 5,690,360 Balance spent at home, 9,749,640 | 1 | 3,825 | 57 | 3,882 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 35 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | The senior and greater of these two needlework manufactures was not the principal assistance in this proceeding. Sewed muslin, though in action since 1822, had not taken this effect on the community until the industrial impetus of 1850 began its fermentation in the social body; and even then, it was not in the ranks of... | 1 | 3,563 | 483 | 4,046 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 35 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Carrigaline, Coachford, and Cloyne, purely agricultural localities, derived some valuable assistance from this employment, though it cannot be said of any of them, as it may of Clones, that the crochet harvest was only second in importance to the grain crop. Of the 12,000 workers at this lace in the area including Cork... | 1 | 3,949 | 148 | 4,097 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 36 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | are many that are now respectably and profitably engaged in other occupations, while several became domestic servants, and others married. One of the number, in reply to inquiries on the subject, said: "A good lot of girls never looked back since the day they got their first crochet-hook."
No doubt many ladies who int... | 1 | 3,371 | 492 | 3,863 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_36 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 36 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | This division of labor makes this manufacture very beneficial to the poor families of the south. In the north and midland counties, the work is done on a different plan. The whole piece is finished by each hand in Clones, New Ross, and Kildare. The pressure of need was not so expediting in these places, and opportunity... | 1 | 3,949 | 118 | 4,067 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_36 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 37 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | sidered, and the competition in each separate portion of the article allowed for, the individual instances of workers in Cork making money by it deserve peculiar notice, as demonstrating cleverness in construction and developing qualities of a high order. The four little daughters of a “gingle-man,” (cabman,) who had t... | 1 | 3,627 | 424 | 4,051 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_37 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 37 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | . It will be hard for Irish women to suppress the rising of jealousy, when they view the lovely productions of their sex in the International Exhibition, and feel that for such occupation they have peculiar talents, and no means whatever of cultivating them. By a recent arrangement, there is access to the Government Sc... | 1 | 4,203 | 148 | 4,351 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_37 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | are left to their own devices, with an insufficient education to enable these to subserve their proper interest.
Children for whom the public purse is chargeable should be individualized and personally superintended, and their progress recorded and directed. Not only for their own sakes, but for the benefit of the tra... | 1 | 3,825 | 305 | 4,130 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | : "It is one of the happiest features of our social condition that men are daily more and more acknowledging the advantages of women's co-operation in active public work, and that the number is daily increasing of educated women, who seek out the means of exercising their peculiar gifts and qualifications in schemes of... | 1 | 3,825 | 290 | 4,115 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 39 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the earnest devotedness of John Howard can be said to animate those of his. When, a few years since, our then War Minister, the good and wise Sidney, Lord Herbert, called to the aid of the suffering soldiery the courage, and the tenderness, and the self-denial of women, the well-born, the accomplished, and the opulent ... | 1 | 2,987 | 612 | 3,599 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_39 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 39 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | * Paper read at The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland. "The Workhouse System." Mr. S. O'Shaughnessy. Dublin : Webb, Printer. † Lectures on the MS. Materials of Ancient Irish History, by Eugene O'Curry. Dublin : Duffy, 1861. | 1 | 4,203 | 66 | 4,269 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_39 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 40 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | avoiding the small portions of the country where the other sorts of lace prevail, and maintaining its distance from sewed muslin and other kinds of embroidery, it stands the representative of an inherent power in an old stock. That the Spaniards used it for some of their ornamental work favors its Milesian ancestry; bu... | 1 | 3,825 | 185 | 4,010 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_40 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 40 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | READER! I will not apostrophize you as benevolent, kindly, courteous, friendly, &c. &c.—leaving you to select the adjective in which you most delight—hoping for your own sake and for the sake of some others, that you are each and all of these things, or you will care little to accompany me to the unromantic and unfashi... | 1 | 3,825 | 402 | 4,227 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_40 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 40 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | VII.—A VISIT TO AN UNFASHIONABLE LOCALITY. By Y. S. N. | 1 | 3,825 | 25 | 3,850 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_40 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | been temporarily inconvenienced by the suspension of traffic in that particular neighbourhood, consequent upon work eventually to be of public benefit, but perhaps the public are little aware that what is simply inconvenience to them, is positive loss to the "Association" and the poor afflicted ones dependent upon it. ... | 1 | 2,923 | 583 | 3,506 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_41 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | * Euston Road is part of what was formerly the New Road, and is by no means difficult of access, although distant for residents in Belgravia. | 1 | 3,825 | 33 | 3,858 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_41 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 42 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | really in Marylebone Road, and not very far surely from that other Road for which I was so anxiously on the look out. Determined upon keeping straight on without diverging to more tempting streets on either hand, I had to thread my way amongst very unaristocratic occupiers of the pavement, resolutely declining numerous... | 1 | 2,987 | 595 | 3,582 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_42 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 42 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | I had not found my way only to make purchases, but to see for myself a little of the occupants of the building. A door at the back of the shop opened immediately upon a long, narrow and dark | 1 | 4,075 | 42 | 4,117 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_42 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 43 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | passage-like room, where brush-making in various stages was going on, the sightless workers all seated in a row before a long wooden table with their implements and materials close at hand.
All seemed working with a will, systematically, and without interfering in any way with each other. One to whom my companion held... | 1 | 2,923 | 643 | 3,566 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_43 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 43 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | For those to whom its situation in so unfashionable a locality | 1 | 3,703 | 13 | 3,716 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_43 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 44 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | may prove a hindrance to benefiting this Institution, it will be a satisfaction to know that there is a stall at the Crystal Palace, specially devoted to the sale of goods manufactured in the Euston Road; also that blind travellers visit nearly all the suburbs of the metropolis, who will gladly receive orders and exhib... | 1 | 3,115 | 557 | 3,672 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_44 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 44 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | * During the past year, the whole number directly benefited has been 170; of this number, 93 have been supplied with work at their own homes, at sums varying from 24s. to 1s. 6d. per week, 39 have been instructed and employed at the Institution, and 58 have received pecuniary help, and have participated in the religiou... | 1 | 3,825 | 96 | 3,921 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_44 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 45 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | "After three months' instruction, 4 of those who were recently admitted as pupils earned respectively 5s. 6d. per week for themselves.
"In the last Annual Report, reference was made to an inmate of the Institution, who is totally deaf and blind; and as the circumstances connected with his case show forcibly what may b... | 1 | 3,051 | 600 | 3,651 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_45 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 45 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | " Concerts by blind performers are given at the Institution, which are greatly applauded by the visitors. These performances, which take place every third Friday in the month, are conducted | 1 | 3,949 | 36 | 3,985 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_45 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 46 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | by Mr. Swanson, (blind) organist of Blackheath Park Church, and the Society owes much to Mr. James Lea Summers, the celebrated blind pianist, for his services on these occasions. Any lady or gentleman who will favor the Association by attending one of the performances, may obtain a ticket from the Director, at the Inst... | 1 | 3,115 | 557 | 3,672 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_46 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 46 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | “There are at present twenty-one inmates of the boarding-houses established for the benefit of the pupils who are anxious to find a home; and many of the inmates are boarded gratuitously, and in other cases, parishes and friends contribute to their maintenance.” And here my extracts from the Report must terminate. If t... | 1 | 3,949 | 68 | 4,017 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_46 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | foregoing statement of facts have interested a single reader sufficiently to induce him, not only to send a contribution, but “to go with his guinea,” and inspect the Institution in person, I shall have double cause to rejoice in my own visit to this “Unfashionable Locality.”
The friends of the Association will regret... | 1 | 3,435 | 505 | 3,940 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_47 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | To the great want of organization in every department of female labor very much of the distress existing among self-supporting women is attributable. There appears hitherto to be a generally prevailing idea that men’s minds are formed of different material to women’s. This is practically at least shown by the masculine... | 1 | 4,075 | 62 | 4,137 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_47 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | VIII.—THE NEEDLEWOMAN AS NURSE.
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EWJ-1862-09-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | hood strengthened and cared for, whilst the latter is left to trail in careless negligence, like some untrained flower, which, uncultivated, catches hold of any support that it meets with in its path, or which strikes its roots in unprepared soil that hardly promises depth enough of earth for common growth. Were the pr... | 1 | 3,435 | 490 | 3,925 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | By thus acting, I am happy to say, that through the agency of the Institution for Needlewomen, many a poor woman, who was living upon the bare pittance obtained by ill-paid needlework, and whose self-respect and comfort were fast waning from the want of life's common necessaries, has been placed in independence. Not th... | 1 | 3,949 | 147 | 4,096 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | unfilled which promise remunerative hire to those who can efficiently fulfil the duties required. Among others, that of nurses for the sick. What sphere of usefulness can be more suited to our sex, and where, in return, does sympathy and gratitude so mingle, as to lay a claim for future provision? yet how difficult it ... | 1 | 4,075 | 204 | 4,279 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Not many months since, I was making inquiry at the Society's work-rooms for a woman whom I missed. The matron informed me that she had not been at work for some weeks from illness, but that Mrs. T—— could tell me all about her, for she had been nursing her. I accordingly sent for the latter, who came the next day to vi... | 1 | 4,075 | 471 | 4,546 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | before, Mrs. T———had sold her last change of dress, to purchase the necessary linen her sick friend was obliged to take with her into the hospital. For this she had raised three shillings and sixpence, all of which was bestowed as I have named; thus unpretentiously carrying out the command, “Do unto others as ye would ... | 1 | 3,755 | 536 | 4,291 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Mrs. T—— had been brought up in girlhood in easy circumstances, residing with her parents till about twenty-four years of age, when she married a medical man in a country town. During his lifetime they inhabited a pretty villa on the outskirts of the town, keeping two servants, and living happily upon the small income ... | 1 | 3,583 | 191 | 3,774 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | not tell me; probably they made her some allowance; but at any rate she found some means of livelihood during the few succeeding years, when she again married. Her second husband was a clerk in a lawyer's office, with a fixed salary; and once again she found herself mistress of a pretty little cottage and had servants ... | 1 | 3,627 | 495 | 4,122 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | ~ Here was the time when, had an organized machinery for the employment of women been in being, Mrs. T—— might have taken counsel as to what she was most fitted for, and been placed out at once, thus forestalling the after misery into which she fell. She was essentially fitted, both by experience, age, and disposition,... | 1 | 4,203 | 151 | 4,354 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 52 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | She was for weeks incapacitated for work, the nerves of her eyes having been strained by the slight concussion of the head; indeed, when she recovered, it was always afterwards an effort to fix her sight on her work, and thus her needle lagged while time flew by, and her gains consequently became diminished. For two fu... | 1 | 3,583 | 424 | 4,007 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 52 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Without divulging all her history, Mrs. T_____ said she related a portion of her troubles, adding she was very sorry she did not suit, as she would have liked so to have nursed and waited on the lady; for that indeed she felt quite competent, for she had had sad experience of what sickness was. I do not exactly remembe... | 1 | 3,583 | 253 | 3,836 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | stringent, and precluded her admission. The Principal was, however, so pleased with Mrs. T____’s manner and appearance, that she at once took her on as a supernumerary out-nurse, recommending her to a family who were wanting such a person. Mrs. T____ came back to me overjoyed; never was an opening to independence haile... | 1 | 4,075 | 197 | 4,272 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Mrs. T—— went, and I received a note from her after a few days, to say she was very comfortable, that her patient was improving, and that the doctor said she was exactly the kind of person he wanted. She added she would come, and return, as soon as she could, the money I had lent her. At the end of a fortnight she appe... | 1 | 3,755 | 497 | 4,252 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | looked up to as the person on whom hope seemed to be suspended, and was provided with everything she could desire. Of her own accord her mistress raised her wages to 17s. per week, regretting that they were not rich people, or she would gladly have doubled them. The invalid, under Mrs. T______’s care, improved, and rec... | 1 | 3,307 | 576 | 3,883 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Mrs. T____'s case has been one of the most successful of my recommendations, and I truly rejoice at having been, through God's blessing, the means of raising her from the abject want in which I found her plunged. Once having found a road to independence, with a recollection of the trials she has passed through, I have ... | 1 | 3,583 | 110 | 3,693 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | : I have written this article in the hope of impressing, both upon individuals themselves, and also the friends of those who want employment, the need of weighing—first, what they are best fitted for, and then, exerting themselves to secure such posts of labor. Were this more generally done, we should not find so many ... | 1 | 3,947 | 437 | 4,384 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | There is a great demand in the present day for fresh fields in which ladies may work. Would that a few enterprising ones would break down the wall of pride, which condemns so many sick persons to the association of vulgarity, and, stepping over the breach, take up their posts at the bedside of sufferers, giving thus di... | 1 | 4,203 | 208 | 4,411 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | turbulent children whom she cannot manage, and with whom she has nothing in common, would gladly exchange her present lot, and become a lady-nurse. There, doing out care and sympathy to some grateful recipient, and relieving her own heart and enlivening her patients by an exchange of thought, she would feel far happier... | 1 | 3,825 | 224 | 4,049 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | THE PETITION of SUNDRY LIFE TENANTS, or hereditary denizens of the said Manor, Humbly sheweth :—
That by custom of this clime, Even from immemorial time, We, or our forefathers old, (As in Withering's list enroll'd,) Have in occupation been Of all nooks and corners green, Where the swelling meadows sweet With the wavi... | 1 | 3,825 | 215 | 4,040 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | IX.—TO THE LORD OF THE MANOR OF MERDON. | 1 | 3,825 | 15 | 3,840 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | To himself we've heard him say, " Thanks that I may lither stray; Worn with age and sin and care, Here to breathe the pure glad air, Here Faith's lesson learn anew Of this happy vernal crew. Here the fragrant shrubs around, And the graceful shadowy ground, And the village tones afar, And the steeple with its star, And ... | 1 | 3,235 | 222 | 3,457 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Now our prayer is, here and there May your Honor deign to spare Shady spots, and nooks where we Yet may flourish, safe and free. So old Hampshire still may own (Charm to other shires unknown) Bays and creeks of grassy lawn Half beneath his woods withdrawn. So from many a joyous child, Many a sire and mother mild, For t... | 1 | 3,235 | 199 | 3,434 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Paris, August 18, 1862.
Whilst everybody is supposed to be in the country, the streets of Paris do not look less gay than during the height of the fashionable season. The circulation of private carriages is certainly very limited, and the closed jalousies of all the principal hotels are sufficiently indicative of abse... | 1 | 2,923 | 616 | 3,539 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_58 |
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X. - OUR FRENCH CORRESPONDENT. | 1 | 3,703 | 21 | 3,724 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_58 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | State, the Rector of the "Académie Française," or of the Sorbonne to the Lycées Charlemagne or Louis le Grand. A full muster of the University authorities, and the other learned bodies, also make their appearance in all the pomp and circumstance of official robes and the teachers of the different classes don black or v... | 1 | 3,563 | 508 | 4,071 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | " With her usual courtesy, the Empress apologized for the lateness of her arrival, excusing herself on the ground that a council of ministers, at which she was called on to preside, did not terminate till half an hour later than had been expected. Her Imperial Majesty was then conducted to the Salle de Concours by Admi... | 1 | 4,203 | 136 | 4,339 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 60 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | to the enthusiasm of the moment, and burst into vociferous cries of "Vive l'Impératrice! Vive le Prince Imperial!"
The Empress was no sooner seated than a flaxen-haired child, about eight years old, who had obtained the prize for elocution, came forward and recited an address in verse which was composed for the occasi... | 1 | 3,243 | 529 | 3,772 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_60 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 60 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | According to the original regulations of the founder, the Grand Chancellor presents to the Emperor the name of the lady who is appointed to the post of Grande Surintendante, and nominates all the other functionaries on his own authority. They consist of six lady dignitaries, twelve ladies of the first class, forty ladi... | 1 | 3,949 | 109 | 4,058 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_60 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | of whom 400 are taught gratuitously. They too are nominated by the Chancellor of the Legion of Honor, whether they belong or not to the 100, the expenses of whose education are defrayed by their families. The directress and superior functionaries of this Institution wear decorations corresponding to those worn by the m... | 1 | 3,627 | 457 | 4,084 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | North America. By Anthony Trollope. In 2 Vols. Chapman and Hall.
If any of our readers feel themselves disgracefully and provokingly ignorant of America, scarcely able even to follow intelligently the newspaper accounts of the civil war—let them by all means read Mr. Trollope's book. They will find in these two lively... | 1 | 3,703 | 111 | 3,814 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XI.—NOTICES OF BOOKS.
. | 1 | 3,703 | 10 | 3,713 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 62 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | each side, what they are fighting about, what sort of people the Americans are, how they live, what they think of themselves and of their neighbors—on all these and similar points, the book is full of information, conveyed in the easiest and pleasantest manner. We must not look here for broad views or deep insight. Mr.... | 1 | 3,949 | 257 | 4,206 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_62 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 62 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In discussing women's work, Mr. Trollope remarks, that those who "advocate the right of women to employment, are taking very different ground from that on which stand those less extensive philanthropists who exert themselves for the benefit of distressed needlewomen, for instance, or for the alleviation of the more bit... | 1 | 3,949 | 397 | 4,346 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_62 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 63 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Trollope's acquaintance, they are unable to see that "they have had an easy time of it for these years past," and do not "know when they are well off." We have even met with needlewomen so blind to the advantages of their position, that they would gladly change places with the young women in the Boston library, whom Mr... | 1 | 2,923 | 611 | 3,534 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_63 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 63 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | “What does any tradesman, any professional man, any mechanic wish for his children? Is it not this—that his sons shall go forth to earn their bread, and that his daughters shall remain with him till they are married? | 1 | 3,949 | 48 | 3,997 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_63 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Is not that the mother's wish? Is it not notorious that such is the wish of us all as to our daughters? In advocating the rights of women, it is of other men's girls that we think, never of our own."
This is quite true, but Mr. Trollope has forgotten to inquire into the wishes of the girls themselves. Among them, many... | 1 | 2,923 | 664 | 3,587 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | " As to the schools, it is almost impossible to mention them with too high a praise. I am speaking here specially of New York, though I might say | 1 | 4,203 | 34 | 4,237 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | would be more surprising to an Englishman, up to that moment ignorant of the matter, than that he would find by visiting first of all a free school in London, and then a free school in New York. If he would also learn the number of children that are educated gratuitously in the two cities, and also the number in each w... | 1 | 2,987 | 857 | 3,844 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "It is not without a purpose that I have given this somewhat glowing account of a girls' school in New York so soon after my little picture of New York women, as they behave themselves in the streets and street-cars. It will, of VOL. X. F | 1 | 3,949 | 56 | 4,005 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | course, be said that those women, of whom I have spoken by no means in terms of admiration, are the very girls whose education has been so excellent. This of course is so; but I beg to remark that I have by no means said that an excellent school education will produce all female excellences. The fact, I take it, is thi... | 1 | 3,371 | 586 | 3,957 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_66 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | "SIMPLE Questions and Sanitary Facts, for the Use of the Poor." (W. Tweedie.) This little manual is designated "an attempt to teach the simplest natural phenomena, and to explain the functions and structure of the human body." It is mainly a compilation from various trustworthy authorities, much valuable information be... | 1 | 4,075 | 83 | 4,158 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_66 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | .
BOOKS OF THE MONTH.
. | 1 | 4,075 | 10 | 4,085 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_66 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 67 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | among the Irish poor, for whom it appears to be chiefly intended, can scarcely fail to be useful.
"British Columbia and Vancouver's Island," by D. G. Forbes Macdonald, (Longman,) will have an especial interest for those who are concerned in promoting female emigration.
"Reminiscences of the Life and Character of Coun... | 1 | 3,499 | 468 | 3,967 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_67 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 68 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | (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 think it is now a pretty generally acknowledged truth, that the education of girls is not what it ought to be,—I mean more particula... | 1 | 2,987 | 644 | 3,631 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 68 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | XII.—OPEN COUNCIL. | 1 | 4,075 | 8 | 4,083 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 69 | 1 | 0 | text | 2 | It seems to me that the question of ladies becoming physicians ought not to be discussed as a means of livelihood for women, but on far higher grounds—as a mission of mercy towards a class of sufferers far more numerous, and more sadly enduring, and more heroic in their lonely pain, than the world has any idea of. I kn... | 1 | 3,949 | 352 | 4,301 | B1C0R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 69 | 1 | 0 | text | 3 | Do not let any one suppose that I write from an exaggerated idea—from prudery or sentimentalism—I write from lamentable knowledge. My strong feeling is that God's blessing must go with every high-minded woman, who enters into the medical profession from a pure love and pity to such brave and hopeless sufferers as those... | 1 | 3,949 | 75 | 4,024 | B1C0R3 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 69 | 1 | 0 | text | 4 | .
Yours truly, | 1 | 3,949 | 5 | 3,954 | B1C0R4 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 69 | 1 | 0 | title | 1 | To the Editors of the English Woman's Journal.
Ladies, | 1 | 3,949 | 15 | 3,964 | B1C0R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 69 | 1 | 1 | text | 5 | Ladies,
It seems to me that not to be discussed as a grounds—as a mission of of and more sadly enduring has any idea of. I know they do how much more women under similar c make an enormous error nature of things that the dured by women, as a soliciting a doctor's aid. stances to have come mus enough; perhaps to other ... | 2 | 1,450 | 249 | 1,699 | B1C1R5 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 69 | 1 | 1 | title | 6 | . July 15th, 1862. | 1 | 505 | 13 | 518 | B1C1R6 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 69 | 1 | 3 | text | 7 | A LOVER OF INVALIDs.
. | 1 | 505 | 9 | 514 | B1C3R7 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 69 | 2 | 0 | text | 9 | International Exhibition, Proces Court, Class VII. b, 1634.
Ladies, | 1 | 3,949 | 22 | 3,971 | B2C0R9 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 69 | 2 | 0 | text | 10 | I am obliged by your polite mention of my undertaking in your July number. Should your space permit, I should be happy to explain, through the medium of your pages, some of my motives in making this centre, and address you from this my public study. | 1 | 3,949 | 55 | 4,004 | B2C0R10 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 69 | 2 | 0 | text | 11 | Being invited to try to do something in connexion with the purposes of this great international gathering, I considered that to introduce a prayer for universal peace would meet the sentiments expressed in the building. The next object was to make this useful to the assembled nations by giving translations from the Eng... | 1 | 3,949 | 144 | 4,093 | B2C0R11 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 69 | 2 | 0 | text | 12 | YOURS respectfully, — | 1 | 3,949 | 7 | 3,956 | B2C0R12 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 69 | 2 | 0 | title | 8 | To the Editors of the English Woman's Journal. | 1 | 3,949 | 11 | 3,960 | B2C0R8 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 69 | 2 | 1 | text | 13 | - LADIES, | 1 | 505 | 5 | 510 | B2C1R13 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 69 | 2 | 3 | text | 14 | -LAVINIA JONES. | 1 | 505 | 8 | 513 | B2C3R14 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | LADIES.
Will you allow me a place in your Open Council for a few remarks on Miss Parkes' Paper on the "Balance of Public Opinion in regard to Women's Work"? I desire to eliminate a meaning which I conceive to be latent in that article, rather than to differ from it. Fully coinciding in Miss Parkes' concluding remarks ... | 1 | 2,923 | 848 | 3,771 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | To the Editors of the English Woman's Journal. | 1 | 3,825 | 11 | 3,836 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 71 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | acknowledged to be as tenable a ground of independence as any other occupation. We should not then have a multitude of women working hard and efficiently and yet regarded as unproductive by those for whom they work. Believe me, Ladies, yours very respectfully, E. W. F. | 1 | 4,203 | 66 | 4,269 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_71 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 71 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | The Queen and the Royal family have spent the month at Balmoral. We are enabled to state that the marriage of the Prince of Wales will take place some time next year. The probability is that the Princess Alexandra of Denmark will be the future Princess of Wales. The Princess Alexandra is in her 18th year. She is the el... | 1 | 4,203 | 315 | 4,518 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_71 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 71 | 0 | 1 | text | 5 | COTTON SUPPLY.—An important conference has been held by a deputation from the Executive Committee of the Manchester Cotton Supply Association, with the commissioners and other representatives of countries contributing cotton samples to the International Exhibition, the object being to discuss the most likely means of e... | 1 | 4,203 | 243 | 4,446 | B0C1R5 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_71 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 71 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XIII.—PASSING EVENTS.
PUBLIC AND POLITICAL. | 1 | 4,203 | 16 | 4,219 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_71 |
EWJ-1862-09-01 | 71 | 0 | 1 | title | 4 | .
SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL. | 1 | 4,203 | 10 | 4,213 | B0C1R4 | EWJ-1862-09-01_page_71 |
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