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Public Health; V. Political Economy. In Section II. one of the questions proposed is on, The part of women in teaching, and the advantage of assigning it to them; and in Section IV. What employments are suitable for women? Papers should be in the hands of the Secretary, No. 46, Rue de la Ligne, Brussels, on or before S...
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INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. Visitors are pouring in from the country in great numbers, and it is expected that as the harvest approaches completion, the influx from the agricultural districts will be largely increased. It is understood that the Commissioners intend to close formally on the 18th October. A Committee has b...
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THE FARM. A FARMER'S DAUGHTER. A TALE. CHAPTER I. THE FARM. The farm of which I am about to speak was situated in a pleasant valley, about a mile from the village of ———. It was a large and well-cultivated farm, and the farmer, Mr. Thomas, was a man of considerable wealth and respectability. He had a large family ...
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Whoever has watched the growth from infancy to childhood, and from childhood to adolescence, of a circle of young people, must have seen, over and over again, that saddest of all sights, a premature decay, and early death, at the very epoch when the human being should stand complete in all its powers. Infancy has many ...
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The young student reading hard for his degree, the solicitor’s clerk working hour after hour at his desk, the youth in the counting-house who aspires to become a merchant prince of England, one after another droops, sickens, and dies. At first it is but a weariness in the walk, or an evening headache as the long day’s ...
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XVIII.—PHYSICAL TRAINING. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
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blood is depositing its fatal burden on the delicate tissue of the lungs; havoc proceeds day by day, till the wan sharpened features arrest some watchful eye, and the invalid is taken away from the college or the office, and sent east, west, and south,—to Torquay, to the West Indies, or the Nile. If the strong arm of l...
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When we turn to the young working women we see a different picture. Girls who have not had better early influences about their health than other girls commence an uphill struggle in a profession. They become teachers, artists, writers. They undertake some of the young man’s labours without even his recreations. They ha...
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gold medals, and professional prizes of every degree,—the young working women fight bravely their battle of life for a few years, and then they also droop and sicken, and perhaps die. More often the indomitable energy of their class, which in the nature of things is at present select in will and purpose, carries them o...
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Compare this with any state of the public mind conceivable in our drained, paved, and decently arranged towns, and our reader will perceive that we have no intention of being unfair to the present in comparison with the past. In average duration of life the improvement is still more remarkable. We have before us the 'T...
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Mary and by Mr. Pitt, are too long and intricate to be quoted; but we cannot resist placing a few extracts from this remarkable paper before our readers. : "If," says Dr. Southwood Smith, "if the advancing civilisation of the eighteenth century was accompanied by such a prolongation of life as we have seen was gained,...
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“Now, an increase in the length of life of a population is an expression and a measure of the sum of comfort experienced from the whole collective circumstances that make up national prosperity. In other words, it is an expression and a measure of the degree in which the individuals composing a nation have enjoyed a du...
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in the cradle, the little child in the nursery, the young girl at school, the young woman in her home or in her profession? To a certain extent these are of course the same as war upon the health of boys, and upon such evil agents the sanitary reformer and the physiological writer are already making vigorous attacks. T...
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But when these palmy days are past, and the small creature assumes a hat or a bonnet, a little coat or a little cloak, then, almost insensibly at first, but more markedly year by year, a different system is pursued with the boy and girl; the boys are to be “made hardy,” and many are the baths, or the rides and the tumb...
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their father's smock-frock or their brother's pinafore? I rather think not." Terrible is the gravity of his question, so pained is M. Comenin at the anti-hygienic accusation preferred against him by the lady, that he assures us he would prefer to such accusation being himself set to hem a pocket-handkerchief! Yet we mu...
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"The prevailing system of female education is indeed fraught with the most pernicious consequences: at a period of life when the development of the physical constitution demands the most judicious management, young girls are sent to school, where no other object appears to claim consideration than the amount of mental ...
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pupil is set down to the piano or drawing-table, where she remains in a constrained position and often in a cold room till the whole frame, and more especially the lower extremities, become chilled. . . . While boys have the advantage of a playground, the unfortunate inmates of a female boarding-school are only allowed...
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The same cry is taken up by another French physician, Monsieur A. Fourcaut, in an elaborate treatise upon Pulmonary Phthisis. In the chapter entitled ' Influence des Professions Sédentaires et de la Réclusion,' he enters into details concerning the Hôpital Général at Lille, an establishment containing 1200 persons, the...
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of death. We also read in the same chapter a description of an establishment at Marseilles, where, “in a climate which recalls that of Italy, are found numerous cases of phthisis. This malady develops itself in the educational establishments where young girls are brought up; the heat of southern climates does not pres...
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In the chapter devoted to "Temperaments," he dwells upon the delicacy, activity, and high gifts of the temperament denominated nervous;—but he also lays great stress on the excess of nervous susibility common to the inhabitants of large towns, and to women of rank who lead a sedentary life, devoted chiefly to the arts,...
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of the laws of health has a direct tendency to develop consumption in those constitutions which possess any natural taint; all special systems of pretended cure are stigmatised as useless and hopeless: tubercles are but a symptom, and the only way in which they can be hindered from making their appearance, or arrested ...
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kingdom; Glendale and Rothbury, in Northumberland, are the healthiest rural districts." Between 1840 and 1850, Glendale and Rothbury lost annually fifteen out of every thousand of their population; Liverpool killed off thirty-six. This calculation excludes the year 1847, which, if thrown into the scale, would, by reaso...
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We should translate these statistics thus: where the men are exposed to the influence of unwholesome employments, they fall a sacrifice in greater proportion than the women; but in districts where the men pass all their time out in the open air, and the women are proportionately more confined within doors, the balance ...
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can keep them well, until the fatal hour of forced inaction teaches them the bitter penalties of disobedience? Many of the evil influences of a profession are for the individual worker wholly unavoidable. The young wrestler for bread or for fame cannot take up at will his or her abode in Glendale or Rothbury. London o...
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First and foremost among the means of health to the dwellers in great cities ought perhaps to be reckoned the exercises of the Gymnasia. If, instead of the unwholesome custom of midnight dancing, the English people could by any turn of fashion or stroke of commercial policy find the leisure for a certain amount of recr...
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ing girls, who require strengthening, they are invaluable;—but they are not wholly what we desire to see, nor what probably their professors would desire, for the bulk of the population. It appears to us, that, if we wish to cope with the ever-increasing development of our enormous towns, we must endeavour to provide p...
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If we cannot institute systems of elaborate physical training, such as those practised by the different Greek communities;—systems little akin to the busy unaesthetic temper of the English people, let us at least try to recover our love of sports; not merely the sports of the country, now, alas! largely discontinued by...
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the sports of the town. We have in our over-grown cities to meet a totally new set of conditions. Till egress by railway is rendered easier we must provide for recreation within our parish boundaries. The parks are not enough; they are never used for games, and no man or woman past extreme youth can be seen in them ind...
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XIX.—RACHEL. MADEMOISELLE RACHEL Felix was born on the 24th of March, 1820, of poor Jewish parents. To gain a precarious livelihood, she and her young sister used to sing in the streets and cafés of Paris. Rachel accompanying herself to a little cracked guitar. The wonderful expression she gave her songs, the fire of ...
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extremity of the well-known cemetery of “Père la Chaise,” and it is here the great tragedian lies at rest.
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Mademoiselle Rachel's reputation for economy almost amounted to the accusation of avarice, yet she could be generous and liberal to those whom she loved or wished to serve and encourage, as the following anecdote will show. Mademoiselle Rachel's affection for her sister Rebecca was extreme. Her beauty and winning manne...
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A young author, very poor, and yet already of some celebrity in virtue of his poetical successes, had just finished a comedy in three acts, written in verse. He read it to the committee of the Théâtre Français; it was accepted on condition of certain alterations; these he made according to his own ideas, spoke of them ...
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* A well-known establishment in the Palais Royal, where every luxury in and out of season is attainable.
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“I wish for the finest and rarest fruit you have.” She was shown all the impossibilities of the season, and made her choice. “Would you not like a pineapple for the centre, madame?” said Chevét. “How do you sell your pineapple?” “Seventy francs.” It was in 1849, and pines from the Antillas were scarce. “It is too dear!...
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" Mlle. Rachel seemed to seek for emotion and excitement as well off the boards as on, and in the following anecdote appears to have satisfied this craving in rather a characteristic manner. One evening one of her most intimate friends was at her house. It was getting late, and she bid him adieu: during the preceding h...
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in his carriage near her street, with a servant on the watch. Soon he heard her gates open, and presently the tragedienne's equipage crossed the boulevards, and took the way to the bridges: the observer continued to follow. But let us shorten this recital, and come at once to the motive of this nocturnal expedition. Ra...
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then she fell back dozing. At length, about midnight, she awoke calm, as if from a long sleep. She conversed tranquilly with those who surrounded her bed, and wished to write to her father, but had not strength. She began then dictating the letter wherein her last wishes are contained. She was unable to finish it, and ...
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GENTLY the sunset shades are slanting O'er peaceful English homes; Softly the breezes hymns are chanting To the moon, who slowly comes, And looks athwart the poplar crests Thro' windows curtained warm and white, Where hush'd throughout the shining night Babes sleep on sleeping mothers' breasts! Oh! wake not, babes, no...
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For where large stars are fiercely gleaming, And the flaming orient sky, brass-bound, With a lurid ominous light is beaming, The wild beasts spurn the reeking ground, As if their shudd'ring sense was 'ware, As they seek their silent terrible lairs, Of nameless horrors, wild despairs; White-limbed girls forlornly flying...
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Death follows Joy, Woe heralds Death, The gates part wide, yet both lead on To one vast shrine, where Holy Faith Sees through all change, the changeless One. Through Light and Dark—in East and West— One goal to all—one Father's breast.
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In its ancient and more general sense, Engraving may be defined as the representation of objects by means of incision, on plates of metal, blocks of wood, or on precious stones: but in later times this term is commonly applied to impressions of figures executed by incision upon wood or metal, communicated to paper by a...
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almost certain conjecture that the manufacture of cards suggested to the monks the idea of employing the art of wood-engraving for the purpose of circulating the marvellous deeds of the saints; and indeed woodcuts of sacred subjects appear to have been known to the common people of Suabia and the adjoining districts by...
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* From two Greek words, meaning, From wood I inscribe. † This print is now in Earl Spencer's library.
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engravers of these two countries began to illustrate their sets of prints with such portions of texts as should render them instructive as well as amusing to the lower classes, it is impossible to determine. One of the first ways employed to take impressions was to charge the block with black tint, and then to lay upon...
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The first book which appeared with a date and the printer's name is a Psalter printed by Faust and Schoeffer, at Mentz, 1457; the large initial letters, engraved on wood, and printed in red and blue ink, are said to be the most beautiful specimens of this kind of ornament ever produced. Only seven copies of this book a...
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that Heineken considers it an authentic testimony that the artists employed on such a work were persons trained up and exercised in their profession; the art of wood-engraving being no longer in its cradle. Another very celebrated illustrated book of this date is a book of fables, printed in 1462, at Bamberg, by Pfist...
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of materials from one place to another; sometimes finding employment in a monastery, and occasionally taking up their temporary abode in a small town, removing to another as soon as public curiosity was satisfied, and the demand for the productions of their press began to decline. As they seldom put their names or that...
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One of the peculiar advantages of wood-engraving is the effect with which strong shades can be represented, and of this Albert Durer has availed himself with the greatest skill; neither ought it to be forgotten that to this great man we owe the discovery of etching. The art of imitating drawings—called chiaroscuro—by m...
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pressions from two or more blocks, was cultivated with great success in Italy, by Ugo da Carpi, about 1518, who, if not the inventor of this art, greatly improved it. Most of Hugo da Carpi's chiaroscuro are from Raffaelle's designs, and it is said that that divine painter himself drew some of the subjects on the blocks...
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The woodcuts which occur in German books printed between 1700 and 1760 are certainly of the most wretched kind—contemptible alike in design and execution. This art in Italy was about the same period equally neglected, and the few cuts then published at Rome are of the humblest character. In England too, little wor- thy...
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Jackson says that the life of Berwick affords a useful lesson to all who wish to attain distinction in art, and at the same time to preserve their independence. He diligently cultivated his talents, and never trusted to booksellers or designers for employment. He did not work according to the direction of others, but s...
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Box-wood, when not well seasoned, is extremely liable to warp and bend, and even the engraver's hand, if very warm and moist, will to a slight degree affect it. Such slight warping in the course of engraving is however easily remedied by laying the block with its face, i.e. the surface on which the drawing is made, dow...
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Before the block is used a little powdered Bath brick, slightly mixed with water, is rubbed over the suface, and when this thin coating is perfectly dry it is removed by rubbing the block with the palm of the hand. The object of this is to render the surface less slippery, and to afford a better hold to the point of th...
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any part. Had such-a work as the 'Treatise on Cattle' been printed at a common press without the blocks having been lowered, the cost of printing would have been at least double, and the engraving, after so great a number of impressions had been taken, would have been considerably injured if not quite spoiled. Of all ...
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The prizes for persevering and intelligent students are numerous, and consist of money, medals, and books. Mrs. M'Ivan, who has charge of the female students at Gower Street (some 200 in number), says "that her pupils continue to receive offers of employment from
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manufacturers, who are willing to engage them in industrial occupations suited to females. Under the head of Applied Design (by which is meant designs for calicoes, silks, carpets, paper-hangings, pottery, jewellery, lace, glass, &c.), there are twenty-six money-prizes, varying in value from two to ten pounds each. For...
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- The official report for 1857 says, "That the female teachers in the training school attain great excellence and take high class certificates in geometry, perspective, free-hand drawing, painting, &c.;" but unfortunately there seems some public apathy in engaging their services, arising perhaps from the doubt of a lad...
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will however conquer any minor difficulties of this description. Meanwhile, a certain number receive appointments under Government as teachers of the different classes, and many are drafted into the various schools scattered over England and Wales. The annual sessions, each lasting five months, commence on March 1st a...
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Wood-engraving requires no artistic skill; it is simply a matter of patience and perseverance, and every one knows that women are not, as a body, deficient in these two qualities. In fact, where neither reason, revelation, justice, nor common sense demand the sacrifice, untold years of monotonous labour and duties are ...
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The remedy to this great evil, we are convinced, lies not so much in the hands of the children as, in the hands of parents and guardians, who (unless there is an ample provision for the whole family) ought to consider it quite as much their duty to apprentice their daughters at an early age to certain feminine occupati...
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- In conclusion, we, can only say that we know, by personal acquaintance with the trade, editors, and others connected with jour
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nals, that there are now, and likely to be for years, plenty of openings for good engravers—that unskilled labour is of no value in the literary market—that it is necessary to bestow a certain amount of close application upon whatever branch of art may be taken in hand as a profession—that this training may be received...
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A Fragment upon the Martyrdom of that youngest of the Saints, the young Master of Wardour: by that poor Servant of his father's house, Patience Morley, 7th May, 1679. I was close to the door of the brown parlour, when I suddenly came upon Mistress Faith, whose looks were sad but serene. "Oh, dear Mistress Faith!" crie...
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is what the Frasthans call an attainted traitor? Do you know the penalty of resetting, supplying, or intercommuning with such a one? That to correspond by word, writ, or message; to supply him with meat, drink, or harbour, is denounced under the highest pains? What are you all thinking of? Why, they will take him and s...
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unknown to us: and my lord is away. No, Heaven has pointed out my Arthur most unmistakeably; and who am I that I should stand in the way of Heaven? As to thee, my child, though there have been some who cared not to take from their extensive flocks, but rather plundered the poor man of his one lamb, please God, that sha...
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During supper I cast a wistful look ever and anon upon my lady I dared not urge her further but I trusted she would understand me. However, she would not so take me. When supper was over, according to custom, I lighted her to see her children safely laid in their beds. On coming to my young mistresses' chamber she was ...
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My lady went back and kissed him again—a most unwonted thing
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for her to do. "Be faithful," she said, and left him and closed the door. The next morning passed heavily. The day was unusually hot, marvellously close, far more like August than May. I was languid and slack in my business, while my lady, on the contrary, was more inspecting than ordinary. I fear I had many impatient...
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Arthur threw his arms round her neck, and then said, poor child! "I will try not to disgrace you, dear mother." Up to this moment we had all sat motionless in dull bewilderment, staring senselessly with fixed gaze at him; but now we rose with one cry and threw ourselves on the beloved youth. Oh what a wail echoed throu...
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. Master Arthur knelt down before his revered mother. “Bless you, God bless you, my dearest child!” said she solemnly, with wonderful firmness of voice: “God hath blessed thee! though the youngest of all, thou art the first martyr of our house, thou—” Here something seemed to choke her. She folded him in a long, long e...
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muskets at Master Arthur's body. Her son, however, was still standing as when she spoke, gazing upward with beaming countenance. I had never thought to have seen one so young look so glorious. He might have been the youngest of the angels. Suddenly he made a sign as if for a moment's grace, and stepping up to the offic...
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Notwithstanding the wonderful way in which my beloved lady was supported to bear and go through her sainted son’s testimony, her bodily health failed afterwards, and, in one short year, so sensibly, that she was afflicted with paralysis, and confined to her easy chair for the rest of her honoured life. As the beloved l...
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grievously bemoan her son Arthur. My Lady Thirconnel, Mistress Esther that was, often brought over her little son Arthur, for he was so like his sainted uncle that the venerable grandmother found him the delight of her eyes. Now the picture of his uncle hung up in the long cedar gallery, and was often shown to the chil...
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IT was a time of sadness, and my heart (Although it knew and loved the better part) Felt wearyed with the conflict and the strife, And all the needful discipline of life. And while I thought on these, as given to me My trial tests of faith and love to be, It seemed as if I never could be sure That faithful to the end ...
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And speaking thus, He led me far above, Till there, beneath a canopy of love, Crosses of divers shape and size were seen, Larger and smaller than mine own had been. And one there was most beauteous to behold, A little one, with jewels set in gold :--Ah, this, I thought, I can with comfort wear, For it will be an easy o...
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This may not be, I cried,—and looked again To see if any there could ease my pain; But one by one I passed them slowly by, Till on a lovely one I cast my eye. Fair flowers around its sculptured form entwined, And grace and beauty seemed in it combined; Wondering I gazed, and still I wondered more To think so many shou...
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And while I thus my chosen one confessed, I saw a heavenly brightness on it rest; And as I bent my burden to sustain, I recognised my own old Cross again! But oh, how different did it seem to be, Now I had learned its preciousness to see! No longer could I unbelieving say— “Perhaps another is a better way.” Ah, no! h...
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THE tendency of recent legislation has been to remove some of the disabilities under which women peculiarly labour. The act 20 & 21 Vict., c. 85, has made important changes in the Law of Divorce, and gives to married persons facilities to get rid of the miseries of unfortunate marital connexions, not before permitted ...
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disgrace upon the guilt; but an injured husband may now, in a petition either for judicial separation, or dissolution of marriage, or in a petition limited to such object only, claim damages from any person on the ground of his having committed adultery with his wife, in the same manner as in an action for criminal con...
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This order of protection to the property of the wife must within ten days thereafter be registered in the County Court, within whose jurisdiction the wife resides; and the husband, and any creditor, or any person claiming under him, may apply for its discharge. Provided also that if such persons shall seize, or continu...
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empowered to bring) to restore the specific property, and also for a sum equal to double the value of the property so held or seized after such notice; and if any such order of protection be made, the wife shall, during the continuance thereof, be and be declared to have been during such desertion of her, in the like p...
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XXV.—EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF LIFE, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION OF GIRLS. By ELIZABETH BLACKWELL, M.D. “Observe how in all ages our ancestors have endeavoured to express their ideals by beautiful forms, through which the spirit might freely shine; they saw more clearly than we do, that the condi...
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"And if the tone of the muscles is destroyed, if they are weak, relaxed, unfit for duty---the tone of all the organs will be destroyed in corresponding degree. Thus from the neglect of exercise during youth, we have this formidable result to the body, a weakness of the whole muscular system. Now the time would fail me ...
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"Let me recapitulate the special evils which will thus arise to the whole material frame when the muscular system is not called into exercise, and developed as its structure and important functions demand. I have called your attention, 1st. To the congestion of the various organs, and consequent impairment of their fun...
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