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EWJ-1864-06-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | looked at the poor prophetess, but they looked only on a corpse; while the distended frame had at once collapsed, and was of ordinary dimensions. All were in amazement at the sudden death and at the speedy change. Joanna Southcott died, exactly as the clock struck four, on Tuesday, December 27th, 1814, at the residence... | 1 | 3,051 | 608 | 3,659 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 52 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Who departed this life December 27th, 1814,
AGED 65 YEARS.
When through all thy wondrous days Heaven and earth enraptured gaze, While vain sages think they know Secrets Thou alone canst show; Time alone will tell the hour Thou'lt appear in greater power.
What now is our own verdict as to the character of Joanna Sout... | 1 | 3,051 | 531 | 3,582 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 52 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | To the Memory of JOANNA SOUTHCOTT, | 1 | 4,075 | 13 | 4,088 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | interest. Joanna is called "The Woman;" her rambling works, "The Woman's writings;" her followers, "The Church of the Woman;" is there not beneath these feminine appellatives, the expression of a want that woman should say her word upon religion, that she should assume her office with regard to it? Do they not seem to ... | 1 | 4,203 | 241 | 4,444 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | EXPERIENCES OF A SOLDIER'S WIFE.
I sit by the fading fire alone And dream o'er the days that are passed and gone, Many a time and oft. "What they killed each other for I couldn't well make out."
An eye-witness is or ought to be rather an important personage, one whose revelations are generally looked upon with a cert... | 1 | 4,203 | 143 | 4,346 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | text | 5 | Such an eye-witness I stumbled upon very unexpectedly, not long ago, and thus it was. I had stepped in to visit for an hour or so, a dear old woman, with whom I have had many a pleasant chat, within the last few months, for so long had been the date of my acquaintance with her. She was very old, very infirm, with a tir... | 1 | 4,203 | 93 | 4,296 | B0C1R5 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XLII.—"A PLACE CALLED WATERLOO." | 1 | 4,203 | 14 | 4,217 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | title | 4 | " And all but he departed !" | 1 | 4,203 | 10 | 4,213 | B0C1R4 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | night's sleep. She had been so unfortunate as never to have learned to read, for as she often said,—" Young girls weren't cared for in them days like they are now." She subsisted on a trifle from the parish, a stray gift, and the little she could earn in mending and tailoring for poor neighbours, and darning stockings ... | 1 | 2,923 | 611 | 3,534 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | beholden to her, and I thought as I could get to him easily, and so I set off along with another young woman, whose husband was out there too; but if we had but have known what we was to go thro', and what treatment we should get, I question whether we shouldn't have stopped in Old England." "Where did you land?" "At a... | 1 | 2,987 | 637 | 3,624 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "How it all comes back, when one begins to think," she continued presently, and then bursting out into a laugh almost | 1 | 4,203 | 24 | 4,227 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | youthful,—" Them bugle calls, it seems to me, miss, they always sounded at a some particular time when they wasn't wanted. I must tell you about a meat pie as I made once. We had reached a little village when we was on the march, and you know in an enemy's country, you're bound to make free, though some may do it more ... | 1 | 3,691 | 533 | 4,224 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | “Not always: once we was on the march, and the waggon I was in broke down. It was night, and we had to go—how far do you think before we could halt again?—twenty mile! and I was ill and worn out at the time, like a many others. To give you an idea how tired I was, it was bitter cold, freezing hard, but I said to my hus... | 1 | 4,075 | 164 | 4,239 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | 272 "A PLACE CALLED WATERLOO." | 1 | 4,075 | 15 | 4,090 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | My old friend remembered incidents with perfect clearness, but was greatly puzzled to determine the places where they occurred; it was all France in her mind. Napoleon would have been charmed with her firm persuasion that every acre of it was his ground.
"In what part was this?"
"Well, I don't know the name, it's whe... | 1 | 3,755 | 449 | 4,204 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | "I never shall forget what happened one night, miss, to a poor woman, as I was very fond on. She didn't belong to our company, but we was together a great deal. I dare say you've never seen a regiment on the march?"
No, indeed, I had not.
"Well, the soldiers goes first, then the guns, and then the baggage waggons and... | 1 | 4,075 | 132 | 4,207 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | .
"It was a famous victory." | 1 | 4,075 | 7 | 4,082 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | she was very young, and all in a confusion round, and the order came to march, and what to do we didn't know; and the stores of blankets for the wounded was just passing, and we begged so hard of an officer, passing at the time, to please to let us have one for the poor thing to lie on, and he said, 'Yes, yes, in a min... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,335 | 7,053 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_58 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | " Aye, aye; the tears, the tears I shed, I thought my heart would break; but how little we see—he has been safe, safe all this time, and I am nearer to him now than I was then. I could almost wonder why it cost me so much, but I blamed myself for bringing him to die in a foreign land, and I didn't see then how God orde... | 1 | 2,987 | 629 | 3,616 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | " For every worm beneath the moon, Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out its own cocoon." | 1 | 4,075 | 29 | 4,104 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 60 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | I've no doubt there was the same dismal pondering in times of doubt and distress, as to whether or not this chequered life were worth having after all—but that was long ago; she had no doubt now.
" But there must be some pleasure in that wandering life; I knew a lady, an officer's wife, who always persisted there was ... | 1 | 2,923 | 627 | 3,550 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_60 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | time, if you like to hear it. I sit here and think a good deal, and I don't light the candle in the evening, because you see the lamp outside does very well."
So I stole down the stairs, and left her in the gloaming thinking over this phase of her rather eventful life. She was very lonely, very poor, often very suffer... | 1 | 3,825 | 131 | 3,956 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | THE GOLDEN SIDE-COMB.
-- THERE was a princess once who had a fairy for a godmother. Princesses don’t have fairy godmothers now, and some people are incredulous enough to believe that they never had, but for my own part I think that “once upon a time” (whenever that may have been,) it is as likely as not that they had;... | 1 | 3,825 | 364 | 4,189 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XLIII.—GATHERINGS FOR GIRLS. | 1 | 3,825 | 12 | 3,837 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 62 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | “I pray you what did such and such a one say of me?” But the roses answered, “Do you not know that what is said under us must never be revealed?” “The fountain will tell me then,” said the princess. “No,” replied the fountain, “I am in such a constant whirl, that I cannot attend to anything but my own business.”
So at... | 1 | 2,859 | 631 | 3,490 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_62 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 63 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | been telling tales of me," thought she, "I will have them all shot in the morning."
So she went into the palace to tell her mother, and as she passed along the corridor, she met one of the maids of honour. The maid of honour said, "Good morning, your royal highness," but the little princess, who could see into her hea... | 1 | 2,987 | 562 | 3,549 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_63 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 63 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "None, to make a pleasing face," returned the queen; "a good heart will shine in the eyes and make them sparkle like | 1 | 4,075 | 29 | 4,104 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_63 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | diamonds; a kind heart will make a pleasant smile play round the mouth; and a gentle heart will give a loveable look to the whole face, that will win people to love you."
The princess hung down her head: "I must have a good, kind, gentle heart, and if I am really amiable, people will think well of me. I will try for a... | 1 | 4,203 | 202 | 4,405 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Notes on Wild Flowers. By a Lady. London: Rivingtons, 3 Waterloo Place.
It might almost be said that no one can fully enjoy the country who has not some knowledge of botany, and even so much acquaintance with the science as may be acquired from the perusal of this very interesting volume, would be found to considerabl... | 1 | 4,203 | 285 | 4,488 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XLIV.—NOTICES OF BOOKS.
— | 1 | 4,203 | 11 | 4,214 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | In correction of a single very slight inaccuracy, we may observe that it was not the chestnut which was called Jupiter's nuts by the Greeks, but the walnut, as evidenced by the botanical name of the latter Juglans, Jove's glans or acorn. We believe too that no machinery has yet been introduced capable of superseding th... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,210 | 6,928 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | adduces on the subject are by any means conclusive. It is a graver error that, having assumed such a task, she does not seem to have taken any pains to qualify herself properly to fulfil it, for though she speaks of her “experience and observation,” she does not venture to assert that she has made any personal trial of... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,272 | 6,990 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_66 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 67 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | "perils" from the risk of "accidental poisoning." On the same plea our invalids might be deprived of their arrowroot, our desserts of castor-sugar, and our tea-pots of their watersoftening grain of soda, since all these are equally open to the | 1 | 4,075 | 64 | 4,139 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_67 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 67 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | charge of appearing in the suspicious form of white powder, and therefore might just as well excite like ghastly forebodings.
Furthermore, that the use of this compound in making pastry is not economical is supposed to be sufficiently proved by the fact that "I have not found that the use of the Baking Powder at all d... | 1 | 3,051 | 535 | 3,586 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_67 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 68 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | them by their cook. Especially would it be found economical as compared with what would be involved were the lady's proposition adopted of promising that personage an annual "gratuity" amounting to an addition of "as much as a third or fourth of the annual stipulated wages" on condition of her taking a pledge of total ... | 1 | 2,923 | 573 | 3,496 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 69 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | But Mrs. Dall has found that there are very many abodes tenanted by free men and women where yet this most blessed visitor has been voluntarily as strictly forbidden to enter as ever it has been forcibly shut out from the gloomiest dungeons where tyranny has immured helplessness. How much need there is in her own count... | 1 | 2,923 | 666 | 3,589 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | adopted, it would doubtless render both pleasant and profitable what is now too often undertaken as a painful and almost fruitless task. Undeniably admirable as is the system recommended, the advice hardly gains force from the illustrations given of some of the conclusions to which the writer was led during his use of ... | 1 | 4,203 | 251 | 4,454 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | To the Editor of the English Woman's Journal.
MADAM, The reader of the Times newspaper is familiar enough with the piteous appeals of "Paterfamilias" respecting the increasing scarcity of good domestic servants, but—if we may trust the Australian papers and the letters of private correspondents—the deficiency is not c... | 1 | 4,203 | 365 | 4,568 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XLV.—OPEN COUNCIL.
... | 1 | 4,203 | 10 | 4,213 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 71 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | labourer. Think of that, ye poor "slavies," who lead a life of toil and wretchedness for one shilling per week and the scantest of board and lodging in those abodes where the principal apartments are let to "single gentlemen." Australia would have seemed, an El Dorado—an earthly paradise—to the poor, begrimed, hard-wor... | 1 | 3,051 | 775 | 3,826 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_71 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 71 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | CAMBRIDGE LOCAL EXAMINATIONS FOR GIRLS.—The Report of the Cambridge Examiners having now been published, it appears that 88 girls | 1 | 3,703 | 35 | 3,738 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_71 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 71 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XLVI.—FACTS AND SCRAPS.
— | 1 | 3,703 | 13 | 3,716 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_71 |
EWJ-1864-06-01 | 72 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | presented themselves for examination in 1863, 43 of whom were juniors and 40 seniors, all however being under the age of 18. In the Preliminary Examination both classes acquitted themselves very well, except in the one subject of Arithmetic, wherein but a small proportion of marks were attained by any of the candidates... | 1 | 3,051 | 788 | 3,839 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-06-01_page_72 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 1 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | PUBLISHED MONTHLY.
Vol. IV. November 1, 1859. No. 21.
XXII.—THE MARKET FOR EDUCATED FEMALE LABOR.
A PAPER READ AT THE MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE, BRADFORD, 1859.*
I HAVE been asked to prepare a paper on the condition of women in England; and believing that their claims are so far... | 1 | 3,051 | 452 | 3,503 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 1 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | THE ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNAL. | 1 | 3,825 | 13 | 3,838 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 2 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | by their husbands. If a lady has to work for her livelihood, it is universally considered to be a misfortune, an exception to the ordinary rule. All good fathers wish to provide for their daughters; all good husbands think it their bounden duty to keep their wives. All our laws are framed strictly in accordance with th... | 1 | 3,243 | 569 | 3,812 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_2 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 2 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Of course the first resource of these ladies is teaching; nothing else is obviously present to them. Now listen to the result. The reports of the Governesses' Benevolent Institution, one of the largest charities and most efficient organisations for the assistance of industry which exists in the kingdom, reckon fifteen ... | 1 | 4,203 | 82 | 4,285 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_2 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 3 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | educated women, chiefly single or widowed, unsupported by their male relations, and in innumerable cases obliged to support them. But it may be said, "Well, fifteen thousand is a large number; but if an equivalent number of families require teachers, and can afford to pay good salaries, it is mere sentimentality to reg... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,457 | 7,175 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_3 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 3 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | VOL. IV.
M 2 | 1 | 4,203 | 8 | 4,211 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_3 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 4 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | 148 THE MARKET FOR EDUCATED FEMALE LABOR.
"No. 1. Miss S. M. A., aged fifty-nine. 1856. Father a colonel, in active service until Waterloo. Governess upon his death, and that of an only brother. Assisted relations to the utmost of her power. Frequent illnesses have consumed her savings; is now in very delicate health.... | 1 | 2,987 | 862 | 3,849 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_4 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 4 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Here you see are ten cases of most deplorable destitution, arising from the most ordinary causes. Would to God there were any thing remarkable in them; but fathers fail and brothers speculate every day, and the orphan nephews and nieces are left to the | 1 | 4,203 | 57 | 4,260 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_4 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 5 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | unmarried as a legacy from the beloved dead; and in families of sixteen children all must work: there is nothing unusual here; and it is also amply proved that the savings of the average governess cannot support her in her old age. The very highest class of governess is highly paid, just because there are so few; if th... | 1 | 4,203 | 288 | 4,491 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_5 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 5 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | As in natural sciences the discovery of great laws is constantly inaugurated by minute observation of particular facts, let us leave the census alone, and try to examine one family, the type of many thousands. The father, by his labor of head or hand gains sufficient to support his wife, and say three children, one of ... | 1 | 4,203 | 345 | 4,548 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_5 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 6 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | of gaining one. He balances in his mind the expense of training her as a first-rate governess; but the expense would be very great, and he has not courage or energy to look for any exceptional work for his young daughter; he would not make her a clerk or a nurse. So he silences all anxiety for the future, by saying, "S... | 1 | 2,859 | 648 | 3,507 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_6 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 6 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | : And here we come to our second proposition: that all ideas of | 1 | 4,075 | 14 | 4,089 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_6 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 7 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the superior gentility of governesship should be discouraged. It is the overcrowding of the lower departments of that profession which causes such a frightful competition and depression of salaries. There will always be a fair demand and high pay for the very highest class of female teacher, who educates the daughters ... | 1 | 2,923 | 625 | 3,548 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_7 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 8 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | teacher elevated, and nothing would more surely conduce to it than opening the higher offices in the Educational Board to women. There is no reason why women should not be inspectors and examiners of girls' schools. I would also suggest that the middle-class examinations at Oxford, and other such examinations, be opene... | 1 | 3,703 | 241 | 3,944 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_8 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 8 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | In the month of October, 1855, an aged woman, who had spent all the years of a long life in works of charity, was called away to her rest, amidst the lamentations of Paris. To attend her coffin came the clergy of her parish church, with numerous other ecclesiastics, and a stream of young girls who had been educated and... | 1 | 3,703 | 330 | 4,033 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_8 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 8 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XXIII.—LA SOEUR ROSALIE.*
- | 1 | 3,703 | 12 | 3,715 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_8 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 9 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | The Archbishop of Paris sent his Vicar-General to assist in the ceremony; and a band of soldiers surrounded the bier, and rendered military honours to the one who lay upon it, for she had been decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honor. Finally, amidst tears and prayers and the lamentations of a great multitude, t... | 1 | 3,307 | 540 | 3,847 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_9 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 9 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The arrival of a new man-servant, whom everybody appeared to treat with unaccountable respect, gave the honest child a sense of some doubtful mystery; and in “une petite discussion” with Madame Rendu, she exclaimed, “Take care, I will tell that Peter isn’t Peter.” It was the Bishop of Annecy! Such a revelation from the... | 1 | 3,949 | 100 | 4,049 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_9 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 10 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | all that hung upon her silence; a fatal lesson which Jeanne was not slow to comprehend, when some few days afterwards her own cousin, the Mayor of Annecy, was shot in the public square, for having tried to save the church from spoliation. When La Soeur Rosalie, in later years, recalled these frightful events, she tremb... | 1 | 3,583 | 404 | 3,987 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_10 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 10 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | - It came to pass that one of her friends, fifteen years older than herself, had come to the resolution of entering the Sisterhood of St. Vincent de Paul, an order wholly devoted to works of benevolence, and which Napoleon, then First Consul, had recently re-established in France. When Jeanne heard this she poured out ... | 1 | 3,583 | 294 | 3,877 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_10 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 11 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | characteristic of her whole life that her religious devotion never weakened her human affections; when, amidst the thousand distractions of a busy and useful life, she lost any dear friend by death or separation, she seemed to suffer as much as those who waste their lives in passive loving. One part of this remarkable ... | 1 | 2,923 | 629 | 3,552 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_11 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 11 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | But St. Vincent de Paul called into his community simple souls, | 1 | 4,075 | 13 | 4,088 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_11 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 12 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | selves to the welfare of their fellow-creatures. Had they remained in their families they would have been good honest Christians only distinguished above other women by rather more benevolence, self-abnegation, and piety. In the life of the community they still remain in daily contact with the world, from which they ar... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,291 | 7,009 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_12 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 13 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | it is exceedingly difficult for a Protestant looker-on to decide. Nevertheless, a great work is actually being accomplished before the eyes of an immense mixed population, such as the African shores have never witnessed since the tide of barbarism swept away the foundations of the early church, and made Carthage and Hi... | 1 | 4,075 | 394 | 4,469 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_13 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 13 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Jeanne did not, however, remain long at the Maison Mère. Of a very delicate and sensitive constitution, she was affected by every interior emotion and by every external influence, and had much to suffer in the early days of her novitiate. She felt the slightest atmospheric changes, was frightened at spiders, and could ... | 1 | 4,075 | 274 | 4,349 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_13 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 14 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | whose influence was uppermost during the Reign of Terror; but who, nevertheless, were too well acquainted with sickness and poverty, and had hearts to be touched by the devotion of those who knew how to cherish and forgive.
When Jeanne Rendu thus came under the care of La Soeur Tardy she was sixteen years and a half o... | 1 | 3,499 | 536 | 4,035 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_14 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 14 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Such was the task which this Sister of Charity set herself to accomplish; and for which her pious fervor and clear practical intellect alike fitted her. We Protestants may learn a most instructive lesson from the methods she employed, remembering that we also have a St. Giles and a Westminster to redeem. She began her ... | 1 | 3,949 | 123 | 4,072 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_14 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 15 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | against the miseries and vices of her quarter, never making a backward step, never even standing still; never disheartened, never beaten; resting from one fatigue by changing it for another; replacing work accomplished by some new endeavor; and only laying down her weapons in the hour when God called his servant to ete... | 1 | 3,051 | 613 | 3,664 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_15 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 15 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | La Sœur Rosalie entered into these functions with zeal, and her house of succour soon became a model for others. In after years she was sometimes heard to lament the comparative freedom of action allowed by the authorities in these days, when, under the | 1 | 4,203 | 52 | 4,255 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_15 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 16 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | influence of profound pity, they entered into works undertaken for the relief of the poor with little regard to the strict economy deemed necessary in more normal times. These authorities soon saw her superiority in all that concerned the wise management of the poor, and as she always gave them all possible credit in w... | 1 | 3,179 | 544 | 3,723 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_16 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 16 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "When advancing age, illness, and the numerous duties she was obliged to fulfil prevented her from visiting so much in person, she made it a rule never to close her door against the poor; she always found time for them, and they had precedence of the rest of the world: even when weakened by fever, and forbidden to spea... | 1 | 4,075 | 81 | 4,156 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_16 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 17 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | going down to speak to her people; and did not always succeed. During one of her illnesses, the sister who had charge of the house refused a man belonging to the quarter admission to La Sœur Rosalie. The man lost his temper, and grumbled loudly at not being attended to. La Sœur Rosalie overheard him, came down shiverin... | 1 | 3,243 | 593 | 3,836 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_17 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 17 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | When sickness fell upon a poor family, all the resources of her heart and intellect came out. She prevented the gradual sale of fur-niture, so bitter in these households, when one by one each article is pawned or sold for daily bread; she coaxed the busy doctors to give especial care to her invalids; she kept up their ... | 1 | 4,203 | 92 | 4,295 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_17 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 18 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the terrified woman and kept the children good; and when the sick man recovered, she had acquired a hold over his better nature which she never again relinquished. Among that low and miserable population, crimes of the worst dye came under her knowledge, and she brought round those to repentance who thought they had su... | 1 | 2,859 | 666 | 3,525 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 18 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | .
(To be continued in our next.) | 1 | 4,203 | 9 | 4,212 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 19 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | “Governesses again? we really thought that subject worn threadbare. What do they want? What a set they are! Always dissatisfied; really the airs of governesses are intolerable, nothing is good enough for them,” etc., etc.
Ladies! you of great pretensions, and you of no pretensions, this paper is not addressed to you. ... | 1 | 3,051 | 623 | 3,674 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_19 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 19 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | ( 163 )
XXIV.—THE GOVERNESS QUESTION.
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EWJ-1859-11-01 | 20 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | already formed. A sensible distinction! We happen to know of a gentleman who would not sit in the same pew as the governess! We have heard of one law for the rich, and another for the poor, but we never heard of two gospels.
Let those parents who qualify a daughter for the genteel office of governess, reflect a moment... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,424 | 7,142 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_20 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 21 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | think three meals a day the summun bonum; and as to questions! the nonsensical and irrelevant ones they ask seem to afford ladies positive enjoyment.
The office of preceptor or teacher was not always despised. Philip of Macedon thanked the gods, not so much for having given him a son, as letting him be born when Arist... | 1 | 4,075 | 451 | 4,526 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_21 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 21 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Parents who send their daughters into the world as governesses, thinking it a provision for them, should bear in mind that there is not one thing which ladies so truly begrudge paying for as their children's education. Of course they say they consider it a point of great importance, and _would make any sacrifice_; we r... | 1 | 4,075 | 286 | 4,361 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_21 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 22 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | to beat us in cheapness! In fact these disgraceful offers arise from a beggarly ostentation. It is thought genteel to have a governess whereas such people should place their children in some charity.
The 'Times' thus began a leader last year apropos to unqualified clerks in public offices: 'Cheapness is one thing, and... | 1 | 3,949 | 441 | 4,390 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_22 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 22 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | But as beforesaid, it is not to combat prejudice and inhumanity that this paper is written; it is to entreat parents to pause, ere they thrust their daughters into this wretched career: let them remember, that a governess has no chance of improving her fortune eventually like professional men, who endure early struggle... | 1 | 3,949 | 237 | 4,186 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_22 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | as worthless! The writer saw a letter recently from a lady, saying "they had lately parted with a very valuable governess, who had been with her four years, because they wished a younger person."
"Oh genius! thy patrons, more cruel than they, First feed on thy brains, and then leave thee to die."
Cardinal Ximenes sai... | 1 | 2,987 | 682 | 3,669 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_23 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The agents tell “the nobility and gentry,” they have numerous * The insects which prey upon the dying elk. | 1 | 3,949 | 24 | 3,973 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_23 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 24 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | accomplished ladies on their books, yet are constantly advertising for governesses; rather strange if their statement be true, surely the booked ought to have the first chance. On other days, the agents advertise and ticket their wares (vide the "Times") exactly like the drapers and mercers selling their goods, at an A... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,512 | 7,230 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_24 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 25 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | school-room, hearing them all alive and merry below; never once do we find her in the drawing-room; verily if the wine of a governness's temper turns to vinegar it is not surprising. The governness seems born to be a *souffre douleur*, as the French say.
The good feeling and right spirit shown in these attacks on the ... | 1 | 2,987 | 657 | 3,644 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_25 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 25 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | *Isaiah 42. † Matthew 22. ‡ Prov. 17. || Psalm 41. § Prov. 22. ¶ St. James 2. ** Prov. 28. †† Acts 10. | 1 | 4,203 | 57 | 4,260 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_25 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 26 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | you not to mind trifles. La Rochefoucauld said, "Nous avons tous assez de courage, pour supporter les maux d'autrui." Some young persons are fitted by nature for the governness life; to be with a duchess or countess is their supreme goal; they are not the rose, but have been near it. Let them fulfil their vocation by a... | 1 | 3,949 | 131 | 4,080 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_26 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 26 | 0 | 0 | text | 2 | Once more we strenuously entreat parents not to doom their daughters to the wretched life of governesses. Give them a trade. Do not be led away by insane ideas of silly pride. Continued uprightness will ennoble their station; the governess, however well conducted, remains a governess; may starve gently, and sink into h... | 1 | 3,949 | 87 | 4,036 | B0C0R2 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_26 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 26 | 1 | 0 | text | 4 | .
Sons of Italy arouse ye! | 1 | 3,949 | 9 | 3,958 | B1C0R4 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_26 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 26 | 1 | 0 | text | 5 | Now's the hour to strike the blow! Burst the hated chains that bind ye— | 1 | 3,949 | 18 | 3,967 | B1C0R5 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_26 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 26 | 1 | 0 | text | 6 | Lay the Double Eagle low! . | 1 | 3,949 | 8 | 3,957 | B1C0R6 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_26 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 26 | 1 | 0 | text | 7 | Lift on high the flag of Freedom, Rally round your gallant king; Wills united, hearts unfitching, To the shock of battle bring. | 1 | 3,949 | 33 | 3,982 | B1C0R7 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_26 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 26 | 1 | 0 | text | 8 | Let "Sardinia" be the watchword— She, the valiant and the free, She that never to a tyrant | 1 | 3,949 | 28 | 3,977 | B1C0R8 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_26 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 26 | 1 | 0 | text | 9 | Deigned to bow the dastard knee. | 1 | 3,949 | 9 | 3,958 | B1C0R9 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_26 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 26 | 1 | 0 | text | 10 | Be but firm—the proud usurper | 1 | 3,949 | 8 | 3,957 | B1C0R10 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_26 |
EWJ-1859-11-01 | 26 | 1 | 0 | text | 11 | Shall be humbled in his might! On! the God of battle's with ye: | 1 | 3,949 | 19 | 3,968 | B1C0R11 | EWJ-1859-11-01_page_26 |
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