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EWJ-1860-09-01 | 20 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | .
(To be continued.) | 1 | 3,825 | 6 | 3,831 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_20 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 21 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | FIRST IMPRESSIONS.
If any enterprising English lady or gentleman wishes to see another quarter of the globe in addition to their own Europe before they die; if they wish to get out of Christendom; if they wish to see strange beasts, strange plants, and new races; if they wish to ride on camels, to eat porcupine and wi... | 1 | 2,859 | 672 | 3,531 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_21 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 21 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | ( 21 )
III.—ALGIERS. | 1 | 3,825 | 11 | 3,836 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_21 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 22 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | white and flowing, the linen head-covering bound round by a fillet of camel's hair cord; their faces, long, handsome, and expressive, their feet bare, and their hands and arms in continual action as they discuss evidently the merits and price of a miserable little white Arab horse, whose tail is dyed red and whose magn... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,385 | 7,103 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_22 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | in all attitudes of prayer; standing, kneeling, squatting cross-legged, or prostrate, with their foreheads on the ground; the only sound to be heard is the purring of a number of beautiful cats and kittens who seem to belong to the place.
At the entrance of the mosque, on the steps leading down to the port, a sort of ... | 1 | 4,075 | 281 | 4,356 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_23 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | It is the old town, or the upper town, or the Moorish town, into which the traveller must penetrate to see what is really African, Eastern, and par excellence Algerian; and certainly it is a wonderful place. Enchanting and disgusting, dirty and poetical. Here go with the Arabian Nights in your hand, or rather in your h... | 1 | 4,075 | 454 | 4,529 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_23 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 24 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | away from the world all their treasures, and if all were as it looks in that instant we are spying, a most happy existence the inmates must lead. The Negresses, whom we meet continually carrying fruit, bread, and wine, or attending children, are very remarkable figures; they are much taller than the generality of women... | 1 | 3,949 | 335 | 4,284 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_24 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 24 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Leaving the town by the Casbah, or Eastern gate, we find ourselves on the side of a steep hill, intersected by ravines covered with aloes, cacti, and olive-trees. The whole of the Tell, or sea-shore range of hills on which Algiers is situated, is very fertile, almost every kind of European tree growing upon it, with th... | 1 | 3,949 | 438 | 4,387 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_24 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 25 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | The tombs are in very beautiful proportion to the height of the walls and low-arched doors; these tombs are surrounded by tall groups of the palm-metto, which, with its straight stem and its mass of fan leaves at the top, is, on a smaller scale, quite as beautiful as the great feathery palm-tree. The side of the hill s... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,358 | 7,076 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_25 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 26 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | manufacture of paper, ropes, and carpet weaving—and carrying them on donkeys to the town, and also by herding goats and cattle. The cactus here grows most luxuriantly, and is sometimes fifteen feet in height, with a woody stem, measuring above a foot round; this is the prickly pear, and the fruit is much eaten by every... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,254 | 6,972 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_26 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 27 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | bles cannot be undertaken, for if a shower should come up, shelter in a cave or under a mass of reeds, or in a hospitable colonist's cottage, can always be obtained, and the showers are never of long duration. The quantity of rain which falls in November is not more than two or three inches; sometimes the month passes ... | 1 | 3,051 | 683 | 3,734 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_27 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 27 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | - We saw a very striking picture, one never to be forgotten; a Negro dressed only in a burnous, the hood over his head and the skirt girded up, with his bare black legs and arms, walked out into the sea, holding a little pot of incense, which he placed on a rock against which the blue waves broke in diamonds and pearls... | 1 | 3,583 | 85 | 3,668 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_27 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 28 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | stood and prayed with clasped hands, the snow peaks of the Atlas rising in the far distance behind him. The whole ceremony was very interesting, intensely so, in every point of view, religious, philosophical, and artistic, as I said to the Jesuit abbé, who was telling me that all the Catholics and Jews who consulted th... | 1 | 3,115 | 704 | 3,819 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_28 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 28 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | We have some English friends living at Mustapha, and as their house and mode of life is such as English people generally find in Algiers, we will describe it. We found them in a comfortable and large house, built by the French on the remains of a Moorish house, which was in its time very beautiful, having rows of twist... | 1 | 3,825 | 74 | 3,899 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_28 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 29 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | columns, domed marabouts, and beautiful colored tiles ornamenting the arches; all the columns and decorated ceilings were stolen at the time of conquest, or soon after, from the owner, a Frenchman, who had bought the house from a Moor, and transported by the soldiers to the house of General _____, and may now be seen a... | 1 | 3,949 | 389 | 4,338 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_29 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 29 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Our friends’ house looks towards the north and the east; from the windows in front of the house and from the terrace there is an extensive view of the blue Mediterranean, painted with lilac shadows; a little to the east, capes and mountains make the far-distance; the bay of Algiers comes into the flat land like a lip o... | 1 | 3,949 | 344 | 4,293 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_29 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 30 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | stalk we see blue peaks of Atlas rising. To the west we see vine yards, cypress-trees, the port and town of Algiers, and nearly the whole of the Mustapha district, a mass of gardens and villages. We count five houses inhabited by English, all resembling; more or less, the house we are describing; and most of them belon... | 1 | 3,243 | 676 | 3,919 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_30 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 30 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In the garden of this house we found violets, roses, and many other flowers in bloom; among the trees, the castor oil plant, the india rubber and the pepper tree, were the most beautiful in foliage. The high winds were beginning to blow off the leaves from the mulberry, the acacia, the elm, and the other deciduous tree... | 1 | 4,075 | 104 | 4,179 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_30 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 31 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | at all; all the wild trees are evergreens, and are now (November) much greener than they must have been in the great heat, which is their resting time, as the winter is for other trees; the olive, the carruba, the cork, and the evergreen oak, are all as brilliant as evergreens in English gardens; and a multitude of bul... | 1 | 2,923 | 738 | 3,661 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_31 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 31 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Certainly the first impressions of the social state of Algiers are not at all encouraging; but to the new comer these melancholy thoughts | 1 | 3,949 | 28 | 3,977 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_31 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 32 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | are soon chased away by the bright skies, the beautiful moonlight nights, and the enchanting aspect of the country; by the newness of everything, and by the strange intoxicating effect of the exhilarating air, which seems to make all who breathe it forget home, country, friends, troubles, and annoyances for a time, and... | 1 | 3,825 | 86 | 3,911 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 32 | 0 | 0 | text | 2 | "T'he wild joys of living! The leaping From rock up to rock— | 1 | 3,825 | 21 | 3,846 | B0C0R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 32 | 0 | 0 | text | 3 | The rendering their boughs from the palm-trees, The cool silver shock | 1 | 3,825 | 16 | 3,841 | B0C0R3 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 32 | 0 | 0 | text | 4 | Of a plunge in the pool's living water. The haunt of the bear, | 1 | 3,825 | 18 | 3,843 | B0C0R4 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 32 | 0 | 0 | text | 5 | And the sultriness showing the lion Is couched in his lair. | 1 | 3,825 | 17 | 3,842 | B0C0R5 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 32 | 0 | 0 | text | 6 | And the meat, the rich dates yellowed over With gold dust divine, | 1 | 3,825 | 16 | 3,841 | B0C0R6 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 32 | 0 | 0 | text | 7 | And the locust's flesh steeped in the pitcher. | 1 | 3,825 | 12 | 3,837 | B0C0R7 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 32 | 0 | 0 | text | 8 | The full draught of wine, The full draught of wine, The full draught of wine, The full draught of wine, The full draught of wine, The full draught of wine, The full draught of wine, The full draught of wine, The full draught of wine, The full draught of wine, The full draught of wine, The full draught of wine, The full... | 1 | 3,825 | 217 | 4,042 | B0C0R8 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 32 | 0 | 0 | text | 9 | And the sleep in the dried river channel | 1 | 3,825 | 8 | 3,833 | B0C0R9 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 32 | 0 | 0 | text | 10 | Where tall rushes tell The tale of love and loss, And winds that whisper sighs Of yesteryears amiss'd, There stands a lonely tree, Its branches bare and stark, A silent sentinel Of hearts that once did beat.
In days of old, 'twas said, A maiden fair did dwell Beneath the shade of yonder tree, Her heart as pure as snow... | 1 | 3,825 | 289 | 4,114 | B0C0R10 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 32 | 0 | 0 | text | 11 | The water was wont to go warbling, | 1 | 3,825 | 9 | 3,834 | B0C0R11 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 32 | 0 | 0 | text | 12 | So softly and well. | 1 | 3,825 | 5 | 3,830 | B0C0R12 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 32 | 0 | 0 | text | 13 | How good is man's life here, mere living! How fit to employ The heart, and the soul, and the senses, For ever in joy."—BROWNING.
B. L. S. B.
IV.—BY A DEATH-BED. | 1 | 3,825 | 54 | 3,879 | B0C0R13 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 32 | 0 | 0 | text | 14 | Death is here : more gently tread ; Whisper softly by the dead. Death is holy--- | 1 | 3,825 | 19 | 3,844 | B0C0R14 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 32 | 0 | 0 | text | 15 | Let thy tears drop very slowly. | 1 | 3,825 | 7 | 3,832 | B0C0R15 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 32 | 0 | 0 | text | 16 | . Was she rich in youth and honor? . From earthly taint and blemish free? Her spirit still is hovering near thee, Full of human sympathy. | 1 | 3,825 | 35 | 3,860 | B0C0R16 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 32 | 0 | 0 | text | 17 | Softly breathe; more gently tread; Hush thy yearnings for the dead: Death is holy— | 1 | 3,825 | 21 | 3,846 | B0C0R17 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 32 | 0 | 0 | text | 18 | Let thy tears fall very slowly. | 1 | 3,825 | 7 | 3,832 | B0C0R18 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 32 | 0 | 0 | text | 19 | Was she sinful, travel-soiled With the dust of years and pains? Judge her tenderly, for God Has now forgot her human stains. | 1 | 3,825 | 33 | 3,858 | B0C0R19 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 32 | 0 | 1 | text | 20 | From rock up to rock — The rendering their boughs to The cool silver shock Of a plunge in the pool's lip — The haunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing | 1 | 1,165 | 44 | 1,209 | B0C1R20 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 32 | 0 | 1 | text | 21 | Is couched in his lair. And the meat, the rich draught With golddust divine, And the locust's flesh steeped The full draught of wine, And the sleep in the drier Where tall rushes tell The water was wont to grow So softly and well. How good is man's life here, How fit to employ The heart, and the soul, and the For ever ... | 1 | 1,387 | 119 | 1,506 | B0C1R21 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 32 | 0 | 2 | title | 22 | VILLA T. L. S. B.
B. L. S. B. | 1 | 1,035 | 20 | 1,055 | B0C2R22 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 33 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | Whisper softly—gently tread; Hush thy chidings near the dead: Death is holy— | 1 | 3,825 | 22 | 3,847 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 33 | 0 | 0 | text | 2 | Let thy tears drop still more slowly. | 1 | 3,825 | 8 | 3,833 | B0C0R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 33 | 0 | 0 | text | 3 | Thou art weary—she at rest, Free from earthly strife or pain; Thou hast sorrows—she has joy; Wouldst thou wish her here again? | 1 | 3,825 | 36 | 3,861 | B0C0R3 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 33 | 0 | 0 | text | 4 | She is God's—more softly tread, Hush thy envy for the dead: Death is holy— | 1 | 3,825 | 21 | 3,846 | B0C0R4 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 33 | 0 | 0 | text | 5 | Let thy dropping tears cease wholly. | 1 | 3,825 | 7 | 3,832 | B0C0R5 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 33 | 0 | 2 | text | 6 | E. G. H. | 1 | 1,035 | 6 | 1,041 | B0C2R6 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 33 | 1 | 0 | text | 8 | It has been remarked that, in some respects, London resembles a dwelling which, 'though it presents a general appearance of order, contains closets and other receptacles of miscellaneous lumber that might astonish any one curious enough to pry into them.' There is some truth in this simile. In our business thoroughfare... | 1 | 3,825 | 284 | 4,109 | B1C0R8 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 33 | 1 | 0 | text | 9 | But who, among all the hurrying throng, has observed that narrow entry there, next to the unpretending window, behind which gems of purest water lie silently twinkling? It is not intended that you should observe it, and if your eye should glance in that direction it is probable that you will judge it to be merely a con... | 1 | 3,825 | 131 | 3,956 | B1C0R9 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 33 | 1 | 0 | text | 10 | But, assuming the "proper study of mankind" to include somevol. VI. D | 1 | 3,825 | 20 | 3,845 | B1C0R10 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 33 | 1 | 0 | title | 7 | V.—NOTES OF BYWAYS.
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EWJ-1860-09-01 | 34 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | thing else besides dressed up blocks and dummies, or the question of what we shall eat or what we shall drink, it might not be uninteresting or unprofitable to contemplate wrecked human nature as it is presented in some of these unnoticed byways. Not that we should deem it quite prudent to pay too closely into the myst... | 1 | 3,243 | 610 | 3,853 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 34 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | But we have intimated that it might not be prudent to explore this region minutely, and our errand demands that we hasten to the next turning, which is very similar at first sight, but assumes a totally different aspect as we proceed. We are agreeably surprised on emerging from the narrow passage to find ourselves in a... | 1 | 3,949 | 102 | 4,051 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 35 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | It would perhaps be best not to note matters too particularly, for some of the blinds look rather dingy, nor can we think a mignonette box quite appropriate for the bleaching of nightcaps. Still, the flowers which are ranged on the sooty sills appear in the best spirits, and give evidence that whatever else is neglecte... | 1 | 3,371 | 558 | 3,929 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 35 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | These people had one daughter, an only child. Jemima worked at the banding of cap fronts, and had her machine in a small back parlor, where she also slept. She worked ten or twelve hours daily, and earned about ten or twelve shillings per week, which, as her parents were well to do, was all absorbed in dress and amusem... | 1 | 4,075 | 130 | 4,205 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 36 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | The tinkle of the muffin man's bell brought the young lady out of the parlor; it being her pleasure to have muffins for tea; as it seemed also to be the pleasure of most of the inhabitants of Salter's Buildings to enjoy that luxury. She was arrayed in a flounced silk dress, not old, not worn, but totally unfitted for o... | 1 | 2,859 | 665 | 3,524 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_36 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 36 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The child received a large slice upon her muffin, thanked Mrs. Joslyn, and withdrew. | 1 | 4,075 | 21 | 4,096 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_36 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 37 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | " Them's second floor front," said the latter, anticipating my curiosity. " Yes," she went on, " that poor dear she's tried every mortal thing almost, and it strikes me that they've been pretty near starving; I know it, but they're close. They're punctual with the rent too, but they don't deceive me. You see when ladie... | 1 | 3,243 | 598 | 3,841 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_37 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 37 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | It is said, that “where there is a will there is a way,” I have nothing to remark on this adage, except that I don’t believe it. There are inaccessible “ways,” and interdicted ways, and ways too difficult for unaided effort; however, I had a “will” to find an introduction to Miss Keyworth, second floor front, No. 4, Sa... | 1 | 4,075 | 101 | 4,176 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_37 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | "The mind is its own place." When I entered the room, and stood by the cheerful invalid as she reclined on her bed, I no longer remembered I was in Salter's Buildings. The very atmosphere seemed changed. From the window I could see where the smoke rose sullenly from the chimneys of Fernell's Rents, but at what a distan... | 1 | 2,923 | 631 | 3,554 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | It was rather hard for a girl over whose head twenty summers had scarcely flown, to have the charge of the maintenance of a child | 1 | 3,825 | 27 | 3,852 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 39 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | of six; but care, oh yes, care and economy would enable her to do it, and Providence would reward the undertaking.
And so the child was placed in an establishment of very humble note, and Miss Keyworth entered on her new career. But the child was sickly, and pined among strangers; so changed was she, indeed, when in t... | 1 | 2,923 | 661 | 3,584 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_39 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 39 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | But conscience repudiated these representations, and testified to higher and purer motives than were attributed to her. - With such a consoler she could endure reproach. She was drawing nigh to the | 1 | 4,075 | 44 | 4,119 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_39 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 40 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | end, and seemed to have attained an altitude so serene, that her haughty visitor gradually softened a little, or at least ceased to speak of the sufferer's past misdoings, and vouchsafed an occasional smile. Smile! Mrs. Norton smile? Well, I do not know how otherwise to designate it. It was a motion of the features wit... | 1 | 3,371 | 595 | 3,966 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_40 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 40 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | And in the midst of the scene of tears, poor Jemima appeared. She had just returned from a ball, and wore a tinsel-spangled muslin, and a profusion of other finery, which, though of an inferior description, must have been expensive. She looked appalled. It was indeed a change from the low revelry she had been sharing. ... | 1 | 3,949 | 121 | 4,070 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_40 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | It was a dreary night within and without, but the storm seemed abating; the wind had sunk, only now and then giving out a shivering gust, like a child that is sobbing in its sleep.
And the morn arose bright and bold as if it had had nothing to do with the wrecks of the night before. London awoke, and the strife for we... | 1 | 3,691 | 476 | 4,167 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_41 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | AMID the din of war, the strife of parties, the bustle of ever-increasing commerce, the excitement of rapid locomotion, the enlargement of views, and the superabundant energy displayed in all directions, and in every sphere of action in this sign-full and wondrous nineteenth century, it is pleasing to hear now and then... | 1 | 4,075 | 134 | 4,209 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_41 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | VI.—THE DEAKIN INSTITUTION.
— | 1 | 4,075 | 12 | 4,087 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_41 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 42 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | broad field of battle," yet lacking most of the assistance that men meet with; wanting the goal for which men labor, and kept back by a delicacy of physical and nervous development of which men know nothing. That woman needs this aid is so well-known a fact that it would be idle to attempt to substantiate it. It is sca... | 1 | 2,987 | 624 | 3,611 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_42 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 42 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | . 1. That the name of the Institution shall be, “The Deakin Institution,” for granting annuities to unmarried women. 2. That the funds of the Institution shall be invested in govern- | 1 | 3,949 | 42 | 3,991 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_42 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 43 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | ment securities, or other real security, in the names of three trustees, and that all future subscriptions, donations and legacies to the Institution, and all surplus or unapplied income, shall be from time to time invested in like manner.
3. That the annual income only of the funds of the Institution shall be applied... | 1 | 3,563 | 456 | 4,019 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_43 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 43 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | 9. That Mr. Samuel Scott Deakin, the nephew of the testator, and every present and future donor of fifty pounds at one time, shall be a life governor of the Institution; and the Rev. Thomas Sale, M.A., Vicar of Sheffield, and the Rev. William Mercer, M.A., Incumbent of St. George’s Church, Sheffield, shall respectively... | 1 | 3,949 | 170 | 4,119 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_43 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 44 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | donors of one hundred pounds shall be entitled to two votes, and so on in proportion for every additional fifty pounds donation, but so that no governor shall have more than five votes in the whole; and any person who shall have been a subscriber of five hundred guineas and upwards per annum for three successive years,... | 1 | 3,051 | 598 | 3,649 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_44 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 44 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "The board have to acknowledge an act of liberality by Mrs. Moore, daughter of the late Rev. Thomas Radford, formerly incumbent of St. James's Church, in this town, which deserves the special notice they desire to take of it. Some years back, Mrs. Moore. | 1 | 4,075 | 58 | 4,133 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_44 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 45 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | wrote a small work entitled 'Mary Morton,' for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and she has lately written a second part, 'Mary Morton and her Sister,' for which the Society has sent her fourteen pounds, as an acknowledgment on their part of its value and usefulness.
"Previously, Mrs. Moore had stood as ... | 1 | 3,307 | 502 | 3,809 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_45 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 45 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | At the close of the poll, the chairman declared that a lady residing in London, and a lady residing in Sheffield, had the greatest number of votes, and they were thereupon unanimously elected. We find likewise, from the newspaper report, that the sum of £25 was presented as a thank-offering from a lady on the election ... | 1 | 3,583 | 118 | 3,701 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_45 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 46 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | itants is now seventeen, of whom four are resident in London, eight in Sheffield, one in Ashton, one in Ripon, one in Barnsley, one in York, and one in Manchester.
The principal and most attractive feature in this Institution is the peculiarity it possesses of extending help to those at a distance from its centre, and... | 1 | 4,203 | 328 | 4,531 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_46 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 46 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | As many readers of the English Woman's JOURNAL are deeply interested in sanitary reform and in the Ladies' Sanitary Association, it is believed that a part of these pages may be suitably occupied by a few extracts from the Association's fourth course of lectures delivered at the Kensington Museum during the past month.... | 1 | 4,203 | 260 | 4,463 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_46 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 46 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | VII.—SANITARY LECTURES.
· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·... | 1 | 4,203 | 212 | 4,415 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_46 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | establishment and support of a school kitchen. It was further aided by an almsbox and by special subscriptions, and once by a collection after a sermon. So came our funds."
"Next, with regard to the building used as a kitchen. Many who have visited it came expecting to see a capacious kitchen and a great deal of appar... | 1 | 3,499 | 497 | 3,996 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_47 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "To explain still further our plan of working in this kitchen, I will describe the account-books which we have used from the time of its establishment, four years ago, till the present time. One book is called the Order-book, and in it are entered the names of the persons who require food and of those who request us to... | 1 | 4,075 | 142 | 4,217 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_47 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | figure | 4 | Total Income, 1855-6 ditto, 1856-7 ditto, 1857-8 ditto £ s. d. £ 47 2 8 £ 78 14 0½ £ 67 11 10 £193 8 6½
Total Expenditure, 1855-6 .............. £ s. d. £ 43 10 10 Ditto ditto, 1856-7 .............. £ s. d. £ 59 11 4½ Ditto ditto, 1857-8 .............. £ s. d. £ 74 0 0 Balance in hand .............. £ s. d. £ 16 6 2 | 1 | 1,111 | 188 | 1,299 | B0C1R4 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | table | 3 |
1855-6. 1856-7. 1857-8. Total.
Meat Dinners 1,160 1,589 3,124 5,873
Puddings 180 99 384 663
Mutton Broth (quarts) ... 27 71 98
Beef Tea (ditto) ... 15 29 44
Gruel (ditto) 34½ 29 85 148½
Soup (ditto) 1,376 969 ... 2,345
Calves'-foot Jelly (ditto) ... 3 ... 3
| 1 | 4,069 | 183 | 4,252 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | book, in which are seen the funds contributed, the sources whence they came, and the manner in which they are expended. All these books are kept by the children themselves. So, at the very time when they are supposed to be employed in cooking only, they are taught the very important art of book-keeping. They thus acqui... | 1 | 4,075 | 122 | 4,197 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | text | 5 | “At first we confined the distribution of the food to those sick persons who were not in receipt of parochial relief; but as we went on, it occurred to us that in connexion with many Unions, indeed I believe with almost all, the relieving officer is in the habit of ordering occasional extra relief to the out-door poor.... | 1 | 4,075 | 267 | 4,342 | B0C1R5 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | "Food supplied during the three years ending September 30, 1858. | 1 | 4,075 | 19 | 4,094 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | sons with food from our kitchen. This is now actually done. When the relieving officer has to order extra relief in sickness, he sends an order to us for so many dinners. Our charge is threepence per dinner, and thus eighteenpence provides a sick person with six good dinners, and he gets the full benefit of the meat hi... | 1 | 3,627 | 503 | 4,130 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Dr. Lankester stated his strong conviction that very many both of the prevalent “Sanitary Defects and Medical Shortcomings” are attributable to the gross ignorance of sanitary science which exists among us. He called special attention to the fact that this ignorance prevails as much among the rich as among the poor, an... | 1 | 3,583 | 141 | 3,724 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | lectures, tracts, and other means specially for the instruction of the members. The lecturer also urged upon all women the necessity of earnest self-instruction in sanitary science, upon the ground that if in this matter they do not teach and take care of themselves, they must in most cases go untaught and uncared for,... | 1 | 4,011 | 446 | 4,457 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "If you were to ask me to give a lecture on nursing; I should just look through Miss Nightingale's book very carefully, and endeavor to impress upon you the necessity of reading it, and studying nurs- ing in the light of the physiological knowledge of which I have just spoken. You will find by experience how well she h... | 1 | 4,075 | 213 | 4,288 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | such things as Allopathy or Homoeopathy in nature; these are merely the terms which men who have opinions rather than facts in their heads play off against each other. I would advise you not to adopt the one system or the other. With regard to home doctoring; I would say, however, that—as it is a most dangerous thing t... | 1 | 2,987 | 583 | 3,570 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | * For full directions as to the mode of reporting to the medical officers of health, see “The Health of the Parish,” price 2d. (London: Jarrold and Sons, 1860.) | 1 | 4,075 | 45 | 4,120 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 52 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | off. Only think of a poor mother of a family having all that unnecessary trouble, in addition to all her other cares and toil! And think how that acts. Her children do not get washed enough. Their clothes do not get washed enough. It is impossible for them to be cleanly under such circumstances. We must not go idly tal... | 1 | 3,883 | 442 | 4,325 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 52 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | “When a cottage is in such a ramshackle state that it is impossible for the wife to keep it clean, she becomes a slattern, everything goes to ruin, and the man is disgusted and flies to the beer-shop. If, on the contrary, the wife feels she can, by a little exertion, make the cottage decent and respectable, she does so... | 1 | 3,583 | 255 | 3,838 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Dividing the means of improving the dwellings of the poor into the three following classes:—first, Government measures; second, the action of public bodies, of voluntary associations, and of employers of labor; and third, personal influence, Mr. Roberts assigned a large portion of the last to women, as follows:—
"Alth... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,435 | 7,153 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | The fourth lecture of the course, on "Dress and Social Habits in relation to Deformity and Disease," was delivered by Ernest Hart, Esq. The subject of this lecture is so specially interesting and important to women, that a fuller report of it will be given in a future number than the present space permits.
The fifth l... | 1 | 4,203 | 130 | 4,333 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | The Oldest of the Old World. By Sophia Mary Eckley. R. Bentley, New Burlington Street.
Egypt and Palestine, the Great Desert and the Red Sea, have long lost the mysterious charm with which, as perilous places, inaccessible save to a few intrepid adventurers, they used to rise before our youthful imaginations. If we ha... | 1 | 4,011 | 440 | 4,451 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | VIII.—NOTICES OF BOOKS.
— | 1 | 4,203 | 10 | 4,213 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1860-09-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | we could see and appreciate the author’s intention, and that we were not sorry to have here and there a few sentences reminding us of the great facts connected with the different localities. Facts, too, which in spite of ourselves we were compelled to acknowledge, may be known and remembered by schoolgirls, but have le... | 1 | 4,075 | 380 | 4,455 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1860-09-01_page_55 |
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