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... | 1 | 3,949 | 205 | 4,154 | B1C0R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 1 | 2 | 0 | text | 3 | PUBLISHED MONTHLY.
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EWJ-1859-07-01 | 1 | 2 | 0 | text | 4 | Vol. III. July 1, 1859. No. 17. | 1 | 3,949 | 20 | 3,969 | B2C0R4 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 1 | 2 | 0 | title | 2 | ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNAL. | 1 | 3,949 | 11 | 3,960 | B2C0R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 1 | 2 | 1 | text | 5 | Vol. III. July 1: | 1 | 1,035 | 8 | 1,043 | B2C1R5 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 1 | 2 | 2 | text | 6 | 1. 1859.
No. 17. | 1 | 1,035 | 14 | 1,049 | B2C2R6 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 1 | 3 | 0 | text | 8 | BY NOBODY IN PARTICULAR.
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EWJ-1859-07-01 | 1 | 3 | 0 | text | 9 | I AM—no matter who; and I live—no matter where; suffice it to say that, in common with the rest of the world, I believe myself quite as capable of forming correct opinions as my neighbours, and thatwhen, a few days ago, I ventured to express that belief to an Intelligent Friend, she quite agreed with me. | 1 | 3,949 | 77 | 4,026 | B3C0R9 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 1 | 3 | 0 | text | 10 | It was a very wet afternoon, the rain poured down in torrents and dimpled the dull muddy pools lying in the worn places of the streets. To go out was impossible, unless we had been able to adapt a full suit of mackintosh to the requirements of a crinoline; to compose our minds to study was equally impossible, while we ... | 1 | 3,949 | 281 | 4,230 | B3C0R10 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 1 | 3 | 0 | text | 11 | " Yes, " said my Intelligent Friend, sighing, (for the I. F. is of a satirical turn,) " but the stupid things people do say. " What stupid things | 1 | 3,949 | 40 | 3,989 | B3C0R11 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 1 | 3 | 0 | text | 12 | - "Very good," said I, "then as you go so much more into society than I do, you shall listen for all the stupid things and report them to me, and they shall help to form the foundation of a monthly article. There is nothing like beginning with something solid." | 1 | 3,949 | 58 | 4,007 | B3C0R12 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 1 | 3 | 0 | title | 7 | XLVI.—THINGS IN GENERAL. | 1 | 3,949 | 9 | 3,958 | B3C0R7 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 1 | 3 | 1 | text | 13 | VOL. III. | 1 | 1,035 | 5 | 1,040 | B3C1R13 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 2 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | “Oh,” replied my Intelligent Friend, “then you seek such a medium for expression of opinion as may be found in ‘Friends in Council’ and ‘Christopher North,’ but you must take care not to plunge into scraps. How exceedingly awkward if the desire of being lively should make you personal. For instance, Christopher was alw... | 1 | 2,923 | 544 | 3,467 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_2 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 2 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "Well," said my Intelligent Friend, "I only know, that at the | 1 | 4,075 | 17 | 4,092 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_2 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 3 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | time of its first circulation, it seemed to be read by readers of every age; even girls of fourteen were engaged upon it, making notes to the edification or detriment of their intellectual faculties, and when one considers the immense range of quotation and the generalisations worked out upon historical facts, which ha... | 1 | 3,371 | 538 | 3,909 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_3 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 3 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | 'The Land of Gossip lies over against our 'ain contree,' and its times and seasons are contemporaneous with our own. Its inhabitants are distorted representations of ourselves, and their words are compounded from a Celtic, Latin, and Saxon stock. Its streets are filled by a moving population, who buy and sell, feast an... | 1 | 3,825 | 94 | 3,919 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_3 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 3 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | .
THE LAND OF GOSSIP. | 1 | 3,825 | 9 | 3,834 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_3 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 4 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | whimsical earnestness, consists in marrying and giving in marriage. There is a beloved queen in that country, whose little children are by turns infant prodigies and *enfants terribles*; and there is a prime minister who is for ever laying secret plots with the diplomates of other countries. Innumerable exciting events... | 1 | 3,819 | 533 | 4,352 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_4 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 4 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | “I have read in fantastic German romances of travelling knights, who, when riding through the green dark alleys of a forest, would suddenly see a figure pacing slowly to meet them, who on a nearer view was indeed another self,—or demon wearing the same aspect,—who taunted them in battles, and crossed them in love, and ... | 1 | 3,949 | 184 | 4,133 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_4 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 5 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | “More terrible than the lonely figure in the wood, more ghastly than the shrouded visitant bearing a message from death, more absurd than your countenance as depicted on the inside or the outside of a silver soup ladle, is, O my dear unconscious friend, your Double in the Land of Gossip! and I call you unconscious, bec... | 1 | 3,563 | 493 | 4,056 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_5 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 5 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "And what is truly wonderful is, that not people only, but also places are subjected to this terrible law of another realm. There is a double London and a double Paris in that mystic land, and the sublimity of the one and the brightness of the other are equally defaced and distorted. Our Doubles go about doing evil dee... | 1 | 4,075 | 147 | 4,222 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_5 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 6 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | aware that a duplicate office of the “English Woman’s Journal,” 14a, Princes Street, Cavendish Square, existed in that region, “open from ten till four;” that it was the scene of the most ludicrous and incredible events, and harbored the most absurd opinions. I replied that such rumours had reached me, and that I had t... | 1 | 3,179 | 577 | 3,756 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_6 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 6 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "The next inaccurate sentence speaks of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, as she calls herself." Now the men who publicly bestowed her diploma in America, and those who recognise it (comprising some of our most distinguished physicians) in England, may be exceedingly silly for so doing; but at least they exonerate her from the | 1 | 4,075 | 70 | 4,145 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_6 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 7 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | imputation of 'calling herself' anything which she is not. We are then told that she has 'just published' lectures, which are really a reprint of a book long since published in America, and well known in England to a large circle of women who take interest in her career. Discarding presently the Dr. Blackwell, on the a... | 1 | 3,051 | 588 | 3,639 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_7 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 7 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | I. F. "But do you imagine that the reviewer knew that he was speaking all this time of an English woman, and of one well known to people whose names figure largely in aristocratic subscriptions, and on charitable committees?" | 1 | 4,075 | 46 | 4,121 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_7 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 8 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | "Query ! whether he did. I doubt whether he can be a Lord donor, since he says that 'an old country like England has the great advantage that such theorists are much more quickly set down for what they are worth.' He does not seem to know that his 'lady doctor' is an English woman, and had he been one of the usual Lond... | 1 | 3,243 | 586 | 3,829 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_8 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 8 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | I. F. "At least you must allow that in this instance he has kept clear of one fault which too often disgraces the columns of the ——. The correspondents of the 'Morning Post' and 'Dispatch' have been remonstrating again and again on the coarseness and slang to be found in the articles of this weekly contemporary. Now he... | 1 | 4,075 | 90 | 4,165 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_8 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 9 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | "Dieu merci! However I believe we really ought to be thankful that for once he has omitted to use the one weapon which can wound a woman deeply. So let us leave him alone in token of gratitude. If you watch the way in which crack writers treat public questions, I think you will see the same constant tendency to shave t... | 1 | 3,949 | 362 | 4,311 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_9 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 9 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | ' Exactly, that is what the — — — is now doing with regard to every question affecting women. The writers, very clever well educated writers, men who are far too highly cultivated, by help of college and class, to fall into any solecisms of grammar or obvious inaccuracies in matters intellectual, persist and will persi... | 1 | 3,949 | 286 | 4,235 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_9 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 10 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | hand of justice, and then—with a cheerful gasp—they will turn right round and say 'Yes, they always thought so, had always foretold the coming change, and were the only people who had in any refined sense been thoroughly consistent throughout.'"
I. F. "Then let those laugh who win. Only let us take care that we do win... | 1 | 2,923 | 608 | 3,531 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_10 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 10 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | . And saw but one little mouse under a chair. | 1 | 4,203 | 13 | 4,216 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_10 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 11 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | That is to say I took a catalogue and a pencil for the sole and express purpose of noting down every picture painted by a woman's hands, and writing about the said pictures anything that might occur to me.
"And what then?" I. F. "Why, with three notable exceptions, nothing did occur to me."
"What an encouraging idea,... | 1 | 2,987 | 530 | 3,517 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_11 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 11 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | I. F. “Oh, Mrs. Hay’s two pictures are among the successes of the year. They are landscape scenes in the Val d’ Arno, painted very much after the manner of the French school, a little grey in | 1 | 4,075 | 48 | 4,123 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_11 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 12 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | color, but so clear and vigorous; the work of an artist who know what she is about, and whose every touch tells sharp and decisive. And the little boys who people the landscapes are very expressive.” “It delights me to hear of any woman’s pictures being possessed of absolutely excellent qualities, without any reference... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,222 | 6,940 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_12 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 13 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | consider those long winded speculations much more your province than mine. I know you do not think so, in spite of that insidious question; whereas I am not quite sure that very successful female artists do not find that, like Margery Daw, they
' Sold their bed to lie upon straw.'
' Treason, treason, abominable treas... | 1 | 3,825 | 304 | 4,129 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_13 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 13 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Letters of Rahel, 3 vols. 8vo, 1834; and Gallery of Portraits from the social circle of Rahel, 2 vols. 8vo, 1836.
In Frau Rath and Bettina von Arnim we gave our readers biographical notices of the mother and the friend of Goethe: we here offer a characteristic sketch of another woman, also forming one among the circle... | 1 | 3,825 | 232 | 4,057 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_13 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 13 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XLVII.—RAHEL.
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EWJ-1859-07-01 | 14 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | illustrious of her time, impressing every one as peculiarly as profoundly, and winning the most general attention, respect, and esteem."
Rahel Levin was of Jewish extraction, the daughter of an able and opulent man of business in Berlin. She was born there on the first of the Whitsuntide holidays in the year 1771, and... | 1 | 2,923 | 628 | 3,551 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_14 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 15 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | form. There entered the room, a slight graceful figure, short in stature but firmly made, with delicately formed yet full limbs, and remarkably small hands and feet. The countenance, round which curled rich black hair, was expressive of the highest intelligence: the quick yet fixed and penetrating look, caused a doubt ... | 1 | 3,499 | 520 | 4,019 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_15 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 15 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Speaking of the spring of 1807, M. Varn Hagen continues: "Amongst the extensive circle of our society were several of both sexes distinguished by the noblest traits of character; none, however, was more frequently or pointedly referred to than Rahel Levin: consequently the wish to become acquainted with her was often e... | 1 | 4,075 | 136 | 4,211 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_15 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 16 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | dance with the world, even though only in semblance, she still allowed that she usually submitted to the claims of every essential relation of life, and became subordinate to it. On the whole she confronted us the model of a woman, rich in knowledge, refined and cultivated; esteemed by some beyond comparison, acknowled... | 1 | 2,923 | 579 | 3,502 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_16 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 16 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "I gradually became more familiar with the character of Rahel as I observed her in the midst of her social life, where it was | 1 | 3,825 | 27 | 3,852 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_16 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 17 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | evident an immense distance separated her from those who surrounded her. She stood alone, the centre of a wide circle, unknown, misunderstood, uncherished—as she deserved and required, though she was indifferent to outward attentions. Made use of for selfish purposes, or depreciated as opportunity offered, yet none cou... | 1 | 3,435 | 525 | 3,960 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_17 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 17 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | “One amongst this select society demands peculiar notice: Prince Louis Ferdinand, a genial spirit and a hero, whose faults, rather than his many striking virtues, were unhappily fostered by his high position. Here he found his best thoughts and feelings, as well as his secret struggles understood, through a heartfelt a... | 1 | 4,075 | 125 | 4,200 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_17 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 18 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | ture and fate had not denied love. What arose when the feelings of such a soul were involved, feelings which raised her on high, only to dash her in pieces, may be guessed; a mere glance thereon surpassed all I had ever surmised. The sorrows of others seemed utterly insignificant compared with hers. The letters and jou... | 1 | 3,949 | 404 | 4,353 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 18 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "At an early period, far earlier perhaps than any other similar opinion had been formed, Rahel was impressed by the gigantic power of Goethe and charmed by his genius. While she placed him beyond comparison and pronounced him to be our greatest poet, she enthusiastically extolled him as her authority and guide in the i... | 1 | 3,949 | 257 | 4,206 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 19 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | in literature. Moreover, when the two former rendered their homage at last, (not without hope of reward,) Rahel pursued her way in utter forgetfulness of self. She had become acquainted with Goethe in Carlsbad, and he enjoyed her society with respect and sympathy; at a later date he esteemed her still more, without bei... | 1 | 3,755 | 459 | 4,214 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_19 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 19 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Napoleon counted many admirers, who beheld his triumphs without thinking it possible that he would soon carry his fame into the very heart of Germany. A voice which now and then attempted to rouse the spirit of the nation, and render it alive to the danger of a neighbour such as Napoleon, was not listened to. Personal ... | 1 | 3,825 | 179 | 4,004 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_19 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 20 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | with every year. The world seemed under the spell of the mighty conqueror. Yet this general degradation contained also the germs of future regeneration. Hatred of the French developed a public spirit, which otherwise it would have required centuries to produce. Patriots like Müller, Gentz, Fichte, Perthes, and others, ... | 1 | 3,179 | 537 | 3,716 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_20 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 20 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "Let us remain active and diligent. Life is given to us as a task. We must learn to comprehend, to bear, and to grapple with it. We must not over value it, because individually it is uncertain; yet on the other hand, we can never value it sufficiently, because it is all we know, by virtue of which we can alone imagine ... | 1 | 3,465 | 88 | 3,553 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_20 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 21 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | “ May God grant courage and discretion to my beloved country men! Our poor land suffers severely, but every one shows courage and the desire to assist as much as is in his power. Every passenger in every street vents his enthusiasm and vows aloud not to stay behind in the approaching struggle.”
“ April 27th. “ I felt ... | 1 | 3,115 | 531 | 3,646 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_21 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 21 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "No word of our terrors, or of the different rumours that reach us. Vandamme, led by Russians, passed our town yesterday. What a sight these wounded soldiers are! The women begin to claim them as guests, provide them with food, and assist them in the streets. I am afraid of another battle." | 1 | 4,075 | 67 | 4,142 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_21 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 22 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | "September 16th.
"I cannot write much, but I know you will be satisfied to learn how I live. The battle of Dresden has brought us numbers of wounded. Last week these poor sufferers lay crowded upon charities in the narrow streets unsheltered from the pouring rain. I shall never forget that spectacle. Government had no... | 1 | 4,075 | 403 | 4,478 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_22 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 22 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | « Napoleon offered peace to the Emperor of Austria, which happily was not accepted. I am glad to render myself useful. In several parts of the city I have established cookeries, and am in connection with physicians and commissaries. The necessary accounts, correspondence, and discussions claim all my time. My countryme... | 1 | 3,949 | 246 | 4,195 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_22 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | friendship, discretion, justice, faithfulness, and true refinement unite us again. * * * * How sad that we must live apart in a time when successive events keep heart and soul in daily and constant vibration.
Rahel remained in Prague till the following year. Varnhagen was with the allies in Paris, where he sustained a... | 1 | 3,179 | 553 | 3,732 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_23 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | After the marriage, which took place at Berlin, on the 27th of September, 1814, M. Varn Hagen and his wife went to the congress of Vienna, and remained there until July of the following year. Here Rahel became as usual the soul of the select circles to whom she belonged; as well as at a later period at Carlsruhe, where... | 1 | 4,203 | 83 | 4,286 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_23 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 24 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | husband was appointed Prussian Consul and afterwards Resident Minister. Being recalled in 1819, she returned with him to Berlin, and lived in some retirement for two years, after which time, and for several years in succession, she made short journeys to Töplitz, and elsewhere, for the recovery of her health.
"In 1831... | 1 | 2,987 | 672 | 3,659 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_24 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 24 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "In her youth, as well as in her more advanced years, in health, as well as disease, propositions of the highest kind, the facts of the spiritual world, the perceptions and anticipations of a more elevated | 1 | 4,075 | 46 | 4,121 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_24 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 25 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | connection were with Rahel the favorite objects of reflection, and in her conversation were the subjects to which she always returned. She now often spoke of death with serenity and cheerfulness, and of her own death as if she feared it not, but rather desired to contemplate it with something like inquisitive scrutiny.... | 1 | 3,949 | 461 | 4,410 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_25 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 25 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | - "Her friend, Madame von Arnim, having urged her to consult a celebrated homoeopathic physician, Dr. von Necker, she consented; but after a trial of some weeks, Rahel felt that her danger only increased, that her strength became more impaired. On one occasion she said to Dora, who was speaking of summer, 'Ah! if you k... | 1 | 3,949 | 256 | 4,205 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_25 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 26 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | times united. That which I so long regarded as a reproach, a bitter sorrow—to be a Jewess, I would not miss now for any reward; With tears she added: 'My heart is refreshed within me, I have thought on Jesus and wept over his sorrows, I have felt for the first time that he is my brother. And Mary! how much she endured;... | 1 | 3,883 | 529 | 4,412 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_26 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 26 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "As the night of the 6th approached, her symptoms appeared somewhat better. Rahel felt an irresistible desire to dress herself, and, as she would not be denied, it was done with caution. She was lively while this was proceeding, showed much satisfaction at having accomplished it, seemed to be refreshed, and anticipated... | 1 | 4,075 | 203 | 4,278 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_26 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 27 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | wards. The physicians who were sent for found her laboring under nervous palsy; in about half an hour she became unconscious, and shortly after this noble being breathed her last. Thus she vanish from among us, without word or look of farewell, leaving behind her, in the words of one of her biographers, ‘a fame both gr... | 1 | 2,923 | 663 | 3,586 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_27 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 28 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Those women who are engaged in the work of education, can do much to elevate the physical condition of society by instructing their pupils in the elements of human anatomy, physiology, and hygiene. No other branch of secular knowledge is of such universal, every-day utility and importance as these. The mental, moral, a... | 1 | 3,243 | 522 | 3,765 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_28 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 28 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | XLVIII.—THE DETAILS OF WOMAN'S WORK IN SANITARY REFORM.
(Continued from page 227.) | 1 | 4,075 | 32 | 4,107 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_28 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 29 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | tions in physiology, and making a certificate of ability to teach it a title to an increased allowance of pay." The Committee of Council for Education in England and the Commissioners of Education in Ireland then co-operated with the Board of Trade in the introduction of physiology into schools. A series of nine beauti... | 1 | 2,923 | 582 | 3,505 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_29 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 29 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | † Mr. Thomas Hopley; see “Lecture on Bodily Exercise,” Part 2. London, 1868. | 1 | 4,075 | 29 | 4,104 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_29 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 30 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | it would be difficult, in many cases impossible, to find a single one, who, after having lived under the regime only a few months, would be pronounced by the well practised medical man as not evidencing symptoms of functional derangement." A whole legion of medical writers have for many years been complaining thus; but... | 1 | 2,987 | 646 | 3,633 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_30 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 30 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | + See "English Woman's Journal" for August, 1858, article on the "Opening of the Swimming Bath for Ladies;" and "Why do not Women Swim?" a tract issued by the "Ladies' National Association for the Diffusion of Sanitary Knowledge." London : Groombridge, 1858. | 1 | 4,203 | 73 | 4,276 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_30 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 31 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | if she is thoughtful and conscientious, she devotes herself to an unmerciful course of study, under the idea of "improving her advantages;" whatever she is, she votes exercise a bore and a hindrance, and takes as little as she can. This state of things is a necessary result of the plan of education usually adopted; gir... | 1 | 3,115 | 563 | 3,678 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_31 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 31 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | - In many schools for girls of the poorer classes also, the health of the pupils is much injured through bodily inaction and other preventable causes. The lady-visitors and supporters of such
* Mr. Thomas Hopley's "Lecture on Bodily Exercise." Part 2, page 31. | 1 | 4,075 | 67 | 4,142 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_31 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 32 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | schools may do very much to remedy these evils. A visitor fulfils her task of inspection but very imperfectly if she confines her attention to the mental and moral condition of the children: she should look upon the school not only as a nursery for minds and souls, but also for bodies, and should see that it is favorab... | 1 | 2,923 | 633 | 3,556 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 32 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | † See Mr. Thomas Hopley's " Lecture on Respiration." London : Churchill, 1855. | 1 | 3,703 | 29 | 3,732 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 33 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | make them comfortable. The school forms should all be suited to the height of the children, so that their feet can rest comfortably on the floor, and all over-crowding must be prevented. All the forms should be provided with backs, as to sit without a support for the spine is to most children very injurious.
The visit... | 1 | 3,051 | 585 | 3,636 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 33 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | * Such patterns of clothing for women, children, and infants, may be obtained from the Ladies' National Association for the Diffusion of Sanitary Knowledge, 17, Egremont Place, Brighton; and also by application at the office of the "English Woman's Journal."
VOL. III. | 1 | 4,075 | 66 | 4,141 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 34 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | destruction—many from walking the earth with the invisible brand of Cain upon their brow.
We may do much to prove the reasonableness and advantage of obedience to the Biblical precepts by showing that they are calculated for the welfare not only of the soul, but of the body, for present, as well as future happiness. R... | 1 | 2,923 | 608 | 3,531 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 34 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | * "Aphoristic Notes on Sanitary Statistics of Workhouses," by Dr. Roth; page 3. London : Groombridge. | 1 | 4,075 | 30 | 4,105 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 35 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | were to pay intelligent attention to the sanitary condition of its inmates. “The Workhouse Visiting Society,” an admirable association, from the working of which a vast amount of good may be confidently expected to result, appears, judging from its printed rules,* to intend only to devote systematic attention “to the m... | 1 | 2,923 | 632 | 3,555 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 35 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | *Inserted in the "English Woman's Journal" of August, 1858. Article "Workhouse Visiting Society." VOL. III.
2A 2 | 1 | 3,949 | 39 | 3,988 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 36 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | of their duty with regard to the physical elevation of their dependents. Nobler words on this point can hardly be found than those of the writer whom we have before quoted—the Rev. Charles Kingsley: “A large proportion of your parish work will be to influence the men of your family to do their duty by their dependents.... | 1 | 3,307 | 520 | 3,827 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_36 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 36 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | [The above paper will in the course of a few days be reprinted as a tract for general distribution, and be sold at the English Woman's Journal Office, together with the other tracts issued by the Ladies' Sanitary Association.— Ed. E. W. J.]
* "Practical Lectures to Ladies," page 56. | 1 | 3,583 | 72 | 3,655 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_36 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 37 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | XLIX.—MINERVA MEDICA.
For E. B.
In ancient Rome a temple stands, Around whose aged feet The tide flows up from many lands, And eddies through the street.
The human tide that ceaseless pours To break its waves on Rome, And gathers from a thousand shores Its scallop shells and foam.
That temple's shrines are empty no... | 2 | 3,418 | 344 | 3,762 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_37 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 37 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | And how from farthest east to west, And by the unknown sea, What goddess was so well beloved, So much revered as she!
A sweeter faith is now enshrined In Athens and in Rome, Her honors everywhere declined, Her priests without a home.
And even what she nobly taught, And what she symbolled then, Is banished out of huma... | 1 | 1,165 | 114 | 1,279 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_37 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 37 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | ( 325 ) | 1 | 1,165 | 6 | 1,171 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_37 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | A TRUE STORY.
Was she right? I think most women will say yes; while men, judging as I do from those to whom I have given an outline of my aunt Anne's life, will pronounce against her. They whose intellect and judgment I ought to rely upon, either question the reality of her devotedness, or at the best allow her to be ... | 1 | 2,987 | 623 | 3,610 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | ( 326 )
L.—RIGHT OR WRONG? | 1 | 3,949 | 14 | 3,963 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 39 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | light and darkness so pleasant to those who have youth and hope for their theme. In that attitude, her pale cheek colored by the reflection of the flames, you could trace her affinity to the pictures on the wall; she had the delicately arched eyebrows and aquiline nose common to all the by-gone De Vismes, and the hand ... | 1 | 2,923 | 612 | 3,535 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_39 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 39 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | But these anticipations were slow in being realised. I was very young, and but little taught before my marriage in the only know- | 1 | 3,825 | 29 | 3,854 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_39 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 40 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | ledge that would avail me now. I had looked to my husband to be instructed in the things belonging to my rest; I had leaned upon him for everything, even to be led towards Heaven: and when he was taken from me my soul rebelled. I arraigned the counsels of the Most High, and said “God has forgotten to be gracious.” Abov... | 1 | 2,923 | 630 | 3,553 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_40 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 40 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Oh, I was sad— I was very sad!— otherwise I should have been without excuse! | 1 | 4,075 | 23 | 4,098 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_40 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | I care not to record the outpourings of bitterness with which my companion had become painfully familiar, but that never elicited a word of chiding or a symptom of impatience. “My child,” she said, “you but repeat the cry which miserable humanity will raise so long as this earthly life endures, with its unsolved myster... | 1 | 3,051 | 669 | 3,720 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_41 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | I saw it all at last, dull wretch that I had been! All that, but for the absorbing egotism to which I had given way, I should have comprehended long before: how this woman, so calm, so saint- | 1 | 3,825 | 50 | 3,875 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_41 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 42 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | like in her life, so tender in her sympathy, had been drawing from her own experience the lessons she had inculcated; and after the wreck and rendering of her fairest hopes, had taken up her cross, and meekly trod the path assigned her.
The depths of my soul were stirred by that paradoxism of voiceless anguish of whic... | 1 | 3,051 | 585 | 3,636 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_42 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 42 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "I must begin very far back, many, many years ago, when I was a girl of eighteen, the eldest of the family, happy, joyous, and free from care, entering into all the amusements with which Guernsey then abounded, when a young Englishman, a cousin of my mother's, | 1 | 4,075 | 69 | 4,144 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_42 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 43 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | who was of an old Cumberland family, came over to see us before joining his regiment on foreign service. He was but one or two years older than I, and we formed a boy and girl attachment,—a mere fancy, my father called it,—and when we asked him if we might consider ourselves engaged, he laughed outright, said he would ... | 1 | 4,075 | 453 | 4,528 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_43 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 43 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "A few weeks before he died, a packet, forwarded by our friends from Guernsey, where it had been addressed, was brought to me, as in my mother's harassed and wearied condition it had become one of my duties to receive and answer whatever letters came to the house. The well remembered handwriting sent the blood rushing ... | 1 | 4,075 | 220 | 4,295 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_43 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 44 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | crying my father's dying state, my mother's broken health, my young sister requiring to be directed and watched over, asked him how could I expect a blessing if I forsook them, helpless and dependent as they were? I did not speak of the future, for though I would have waited for him all my life, contented with knowing ... | 1 | 2,923 | 666 | 3,589 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_44 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 44 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "I used to divine what was passing in her thoughts, when often for hours together she would silently watch Alice, her youngest | 1 | 4,075 | 25 | 4,100 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_44 |
EWJ-1859-07-01 | 45 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | born and best beloved, as she bent over her embroidery at the foot of the sofa: her brown curls, just tinged with gold, falling in masses about her fair round neck; her face, whenever she looked up, flinging back her hair, smiled brightly on her mother winning an answering smile and look of admiration, which it needed ... | 1 | 3,371 | 527 | 3,898 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-07-01_page_45 |
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