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EWJ-1863-06-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In the portrait of the Emperor to which I refer, his Imperial Majesty is represented standing. He is dressed in the uniform of a general officer—unfortunately, I think, for the brick-coloured trousers, the epaulettes and decorations, give a vulgarly official look to what, otherwise would be a classic, although not a cl... | 1 | 4,203 | 115 | 4,318 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_41 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 42 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Napoleon, and at the other a _fauteuil_. Behind is a fire-place, such as one sees in the private apartments of the Tuileries. The tone of the whole is sober, and even severe. It is the antithesis of the "sensation" style of portrait, or _genre_ picture. There is nothing in it of regal grandeur, or Imperial luxury—no at... | 1 | 4,075 | 333 | 4,408 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_42 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 42 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In reproducing faithfully the features of his sitters, Flandrin does more than depict them physically. He treats the face as though it were but the outward sign of an invisible and living soul. He has most especially treated thus the head of the Emperor. On it is marked Napoleon’s character, his habits, and the history... | 1 | 4,075 | 333 | 4,408 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_42 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 43 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | "The Birth of Venus," by Cabonel, is fresh, lovely, and poetic as any of the creations of the Greek poets. The Goddess of Love is represented lying upon a smiling sea, of that light blue tint which is only to be met with in the Archipelago. A few crisp breakers which assume a shell-like form, waft her across its surfac... | 1 | 3,949 | 313 | 4,262 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_43 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 43 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The “Chevalier Nigra,” by Fagnani, reminds one of those Florentine portraits alluded to by Macaulay in his Essay on Machiavelli. The eyes are calm, but their calmness is like that of the still water in the proverb. They express the faculty of thought; feeling rather than penetration, the less subtle faculty of the two.... | 1 | 3,949 | 319 | 4,268 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_43 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 44 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Henriette Brown has disappointed the public by not exhibiting any of her works this year. Rosa Bonheur has in like manner allowed her brother Auguste to rank as first among the animal painters. But a great number of female artists figure in the catalogue, and will in all probability bear away as large a percentage of t... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,503 | 7,221 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_44 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 45 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | for the shadows. We had much trouble with courtships on board ship; all was innocent enough it is true, and in nine cases out of ten the girls came to my confessional concerning sundry quarrels and divers fits of jealousy; but though we looked at these proceedings with a very lenient eye, it interfered amazingly with t... | 1 | 4,075 | 618 | 4,693 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_45 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 45 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The mate fortunately had presence of mind enough to call for a light and ask for names; this, with the pistols, had its desired effect, and all slunk back and retired. Oh, how like rats in a hole we felt that night, and how wearily the hours passed, as with hot cheeks and parched mouths we sat or rather rolled about ti... | 1 | 4,075 | 307 | 4,382 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_45 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 46 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | strange mixture of shy and cynical faces, looking as if scarcely decided whether they were glad or sorry for my advent on the main deck. I suppose I looked a little frightened, for by-and-bye one man came up a little closer and said, "We're a funny lot, Miss Rye, but we won't hurt you." So we began (they sang capitally... | 1 | 2,987 | 899 | 3,886 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_46 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | bays running inland, the shore of which is often white with the whitest sand, to which you must add a corresponding picture on the opposite side, you will have some idea of the extreme glory of the scenery. We are staying at present with Mr. Douglas, the banker, a kind host: I and as I am now seated, the town lies to m... | 1 | 3,755 | 778 | 4,533 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_47 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | ------
There was a grand 'bachelors' ball the first week after we landed, to which we of course got invitations, and of course did not go. The races are on now, and we got invited for these too; but we declined this also, as (all higher considerations on one side) we thought it unwise to be seen too much in public. I... | 1 | 4,075 | 253 | 4,328 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_47 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | modation, if the situation is particularly good. The consequence of this is that the town is half tents, some quite white, with little glass windows and a long flue chimney; others brown, battered, and broken-down, with a mud fire-place at the side which serves somehow for chimney and oven all in one. Yesterday we noti... | 1 | 2,859 | 975 | 3,834 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | are not in great favour, being too fast for the old inhabitants, or vegetarians.
I have just been interrupted—Mrs. Valpy, senior, has been here, and she says the difficulty of dealing with the barracks is to be taken off my hands. The gentlemen have, through their sisters and wives, heard my condemnation of the barrac... | 1 | 3,627 | 738 | 4,365 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Yours ever most affectionately, MARIA S. RYE.
Mrs. FERNES WEBER, 11, Charter House Square, London, E.C.
Mrs. Douglas is a friend of Mrs. Reed's and Miss Sturch's—B. L. S. B. and B. R. P. will like to know this.
Many ladies have written to me about servants to go to Nelson—I shall hope to make arrangements with Miss ... | 1 | 4,075 | 106 | 4,181 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --... | 1 | 4,075 | 205 | 4,280 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | I sent you by the mail of the 12th from here a long circular letter. I was very glad to hear the Duke of Newcastle had so kindly forwarded the schedules of my women per Robert Lowe; I need not ask if, for I feel sure that you have thanked him in my name. I had another ride with Miss W—— and the groom on Saturday; we we... | 1 | 4,203 | 539 | 4,742 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | DUNEDIN, Tuesday, March 17.
The Argus, taking for its text some remarks which recently appeared in this Journal treats its readers to an article in exceeding ill taste on the subject of Miss Rye and female immigration. Shortly after this lady's arrival we drew attention to the apparent want of cordiality with which sh... | 1 | 4,203 | 368 | 4,571 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | EXTRACT FROM A NEW ZEALAND PAPER.
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, VOL. VII. SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1866. | 1 | 4,203 | 49 | 4,252 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | prehensively expression—marriageable age, with whom the subject of matrimony would not possess a fund of enticing interest? Even if they were procurable, their eligibility might be doubted. Women must lose a considerable portion of their womanly instincts before they cease to desire the conversion of their single lonel... | 1 | 2,859 | 837 | 3,696 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | -ANOTHER MAIL FROM MISS RYE.
267 | 1 | 4,203 | 15 | 4,218 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 52 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | land, and are entitled to an hospitable reception; but with no one to assert the claim, the responsibility is likely to be forgotten. So it was in Dunedin; the immigrants who came out prior to Miss Rye's arrival, besides being received in a wretched hole, unfitted for human habitation, were subjected to barbarously res... | 1 | 4,075 | 302 | 4,377 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 52 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Have any of our readers ever known what it is to have their enthusiastic interest excited in some particular object? Have they devoted unremitting attention; and month on month of time to it? Have they thrown their whole being into it, and at last, by the dint of perseverance, carried out their purpose, whatever it mig... | 1 | 4,075 | 551 | 4,626 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 52 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | Otago Daily Times, Feb. 24th, 1868. | 1 | 4,075 | 18 | 4,093 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | have gone further. She may have pictured a nice comfortable clean home in which the immigrants would be received for a few days after their landing, pending their procuring employment. Such the anticipations;—now let us look at their realization. The cordial reception is changed into cold indifference, the pleasant hom... | 1 | 4,075 | 575 | 4,650 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | It is a bitter return to Miss Rye for selecting Otago as the first test of her experiment, that not only should she herself be received with scant cordiality, but that she should be doomed to appear to keep bad faith with those who have trusted themselves to her protection. The government, too, have a sad wrong to answ... | 1 | 4,075 | 274 | 4,349 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | On the 12th of last month the graduates of the University of London, in convocation assembled, rejected by a considerable majority the moderate proposition “that the Senate should be requested to consider whether the objects of the University as declared in the charter would not be promoted by making provision for the ... | 1 | 3,115 | 532 | 3,647 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | XLII.—THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON AND THE GRADUATION OF WOMEN.
— | 1 | 3,949 | 26 | 3,975 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | who opposed it, that the adoption by the meeting of the proposition before it would involve the laying down of some general scheme of education for the middle-class women of England, differing materially from that laid down for the men, and the definition, by some authority or other, of what are and what are not the pr... | 1 | 3,949 | 381 | 4,330 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The objects of the University of London, as declared by its charter, are to hold forth to all classes and denominations of Her Majesty’s subjects, without any distinction whatsoever, an encouragement for pursuing a regular and liberal course of education, and to ascertain, by means of examination, the persons who have ... | 1 | 3,949 | 224 | 4,173 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | class should be treated alike, and that some should not be excluded from, while others are admitted to, benefits given to the class to which they belong.
While on the subject of the charter, we may mention that it has been stated that the University could not under it legally grant degrees to women. We do not believe ... | 1 | 4,075 | 277 | 4,352 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | To refuse what is asked then, is in effect to say either that a regular and liberal course of education is of no advantage to a woman, or that the course of education which is found to work well when followed by men, would prove useless or injurious if adopted by women. We assume, it will be observed, that the training... | 1 | 4,075 | 334 | 4,409 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | has less tendency to educate them than has man's. If then, as we contend, liberal education be literally mental exercise, where are women to seek, or why should they seek, this exercise from other sources than those resorted to by men? What is there in ancient or modern languages, mathematics, or the elements of scienc... | 1 | 3,307 | 516 | 3,823 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Practically we believe that scarcely any woman would proceed beyond the mere ordinary Bachelor's degree, as this would suffice for the purposes we have indicated, without involving any severe strain upon a woman's powers. But, apart from the direct benefit to the graduate herself, we believe that the change we are advo... | 1 | 4,075 | 92 | 4,167 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | graduation or not. A standard of efficiency would at once be set up, and by degrees the measure and kind of education required of its graduates by the University of London would come to be generally recognized as the goal towards which all efforts for the education of women must tend.
We have hitherto assumed, what we... | 1 | 3,371 | 497 | 3,868 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_58 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | As we have before said, there seemed to be in the minds of the graduates present, no little fear of ridicule from the world in general, and from the older Universities in particular, and of a consequent depreciation of the worth of London degrees. With reference to this we would remark that, constituted as is the Unive... | 1 | 4,075 | 110 | 4,185 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_58 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | instruction; and we do not believe, moreover, that the world has so low an opinion of woman's intellect as such a fear implies.
Finally, we would venture to remind the University of London that no amount of respect for the history, or timid subserviency to the traditions, of either Oxford or Cambridge, will give it a ... | 1 | 3,949 | 208 | 4,157 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Hints on Self-Help for Young Women. Price 1s. By Jessie Boucherett. S. W. Partridge, 9, Paternoster Row.
This manual of woman's work is dedicated by Miss Boucherett to the Presidents and Committee of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women, of which she was herself the founder four years ago, and contains no... | 1 | 3,949 | 353 | 4,302 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XLIII.—NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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EWJ-1863-06-01 | 60 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | do not cohere by any law of organization to the body politic. Here and there the “sweaters” have, it is true, organized a certain grinding and wholly material order, wherein a certain proportion of them find place; but it may be doubted whether the remedy is much better than the disease.
It is quite clear that women w... | 1 | 4,075 | 475 | 4,550 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_60 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 60 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | - Regarding the absolute necessity of dogged perseverance and business application, and its power of supplying the want of brighter parts, Miss Boucherett says, “I myself knew an instance of a girl who used to attend the village school I sometimes visited, where she was thought dull by her companions and teacher, and o... | 1 | 4,075 | 200 | 4,275 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_60 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | received a high salary, and the respect due to a person in a position of trust. For several years she held this situation, and ended by marrying very respectably, having doubtless a good sum of money laid by to begin housekeeping. It sometimes struck me that when this young person returned to her native village for a h... | 1 | 4,075 | 259 | 4,334 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Miss Boucherett's chapters comprise the following subjects. The Benefits of Self-help; Perseverance, Business Habits, Choice of a Business, Emigration, Duty and Independence; Money, How to Waste It—How to Keep It; Self Respect,—Example, Influence; Benefit Societies for Women; General Usefulness,—Conversation; Head-work... | 1 | 4,075 | 371 | 4,446 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 62 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Those of our readers who have not seen this little book, cannot do better than spend a shilling in buying it, since no one has better right or more knowledge than Miss Boucherett in speaking on this subject, which has of late years attracted so much public attention. | 1 | 4,203 | 55 | 4,258 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_62 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 62 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Mr. Murray's list of forthcoming works comprises the "Diary of Mary, Countess Cowper, Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales, from the original manuscript in the possession of the family." This is the work (says the Publishers' Circular) of which Lord Campbell, in his "Lives of the Chancellors," remarks, "Lord... | 1 | 3,499 | 518 | 4,017 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_62 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 62 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | .
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BOOKS OF THE MONTH. | 1 | 4,203 | 10 | 4,213 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_62 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 63 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | of “Art Lines for Illuminating,” and other art publications. It is dedicated (without their permission, say the modest authors) to the Ladies of England. It is a protest against the universal adoption of any colour in articles of dress, whether fashionable or otherwise, as a practice “which must ever prove painful in i... | 1 | 2,923 | 591 | 3,514 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_63 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | resident in Florence and Rome, was intimate with Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
" My Mothers' Meetings" is a series of familiar conversations and addresses suitable to be read at such gatherings. They are written by a Friend belonging to a well-known family in the Quaker body, and published by Alfred Bennett, Bishopsgate... | 1 | 3,435 | 521 | 3,956 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | . We have received new editions of some pretty little stories written by an author long resident in Paris, who does not affix his name. 'The Grateful Sparrow,' now in its fourth edition, was originally printed in Household Words, and is reprinted with the permission of Mr. Dickens; it is a very pretty romance of family... | 1 | 4,203 | 116 | 4,319 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | "How I became a Governess," is also in its second edition. It is reprinted from Good Words, where it appeared Nov. 1, 1860. It tells the story of an English governess in France. By the same author is also a musical lesson book, entitled "Little by Little; a series of graduated lessons in the art of teaching music." The... | 1 | 4,203 | 200 | 4,403 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | (As these pages are intended for general discussion, the Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed.)
To the Editors of the English Woman's Journal. May 20, 1868.
Ladies, In the English Woman's Journal for March, 1868, in the chapter headed "Fever in its Social Aspects," I find a quotation ... | 1 | 4,203 | 411 | 4,614 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XLIV.—OPEN COUNCIL. | 1 | 4,203 | 9 | 4,212 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | though vulgar in its origin, deserves well to be incorporated in the English language, because it expresses a definite idea, better than any other yet proposed; and moreover, an idea offering a certainty—so soon as it shall be widely realized—of abounding happiness to the human race.
This is indeed a subject which sho... | 1 | 2,923 | 825 | 3,748 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_66 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "The following words, which I find in the first article in your number for | 1 | 4,075 | 15 | 4,090 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_66 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 67 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the present month, have induced me thus to trouble you with a few of my thoughts.—"Every addition by means of labour to the resources of society—every act of ours, by which we change a comparatively valueless material into a useful commodity, adds so much to the riches of the world." This is a perfectly true propositio... | 1 | 2,859 | 905 | 3,764 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_67 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 68 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | not the case. The full number carried away, year by year, is supplied out of the ranks of once moderate drinkers, who topple over the line, and take their places among the degraded. Fathers and mothers, which of your children will you devote to this sad fate? As you fondle your little ones, who make a heaven of your ho... | 1 | 4,203 | 315 | 4,518 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 68 | 0 | 0 | text | 2 | I remain, Ladies, respectfully yours, James Haughton. | 1 | 4,203 | 15 | 4,218 | B0C0R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 68 | 0 | 0 | text | 3 | 35, Eccles Street, Dublin, May, 1868.
-- Newspaper, March 4th, 1929. | 1 | 4,203 | 33 | 4,236 | B0C0R3 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 68 | 0 | 0 | text | 4 | MY DEAR NELSON, Martin with you.
I had been wishing I might have an opportunity of seeing Miss Rye, in order that I might suggest the very thing you mention, midwives. In the valley of the Wairarapa, which runs some eighty miles, and has only a scattered population, there were say, at most, three midwives; and I have ... | 1 | 4,203 | 378 | 4,581 | B0C0R4 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 68 | 0 | 0 | text | 5 | Many thanks for your kindness in sending me your Journal, containing the pleasing intelligence of our mutual friend Miss Rye's safe arrival. May the many prayers offered up, and good wishes, be realised, and may she succeed to the utmost in her mission. | 1 | 4,203 | 51 | 4,254 | B0C0R5 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 68 | 0 | 0 | text | 6 | I think you have heard of my working men's club, in Duck Lane, Westminster, which has been so successful. I enclose my paper on the subject; | 1 | 4,203 | 35 | 4,238 | B0C0R6 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 68 | 0 | 1 | text | 7 | Mr DEAR C—,
I had been wishing I might have in order that I might suggest the very valley of the Wairarapa, which is said to have been the scene of many a poor woman left alone near her till within a few minutes of the last quarter of an hour. Those that per week, and then refused to do a single thing—neither could a ... | 1 | 1,462 | 207 | 1,669 | B0C1R7 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 68 | 0 | 2 | text | 8 | - James Haughton. 1868.
Nelson, March 4th, 1868. | 1 | 1,099 | 27 | 1,126 | B0C2R8 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 69 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | which I wrote at the request of the editor of the Ragged School Union Magazine, and appeared in the May number.
I am fully convinced from an experience of two years and a half, that if a club is to be permanently successful, it must be managed entirely by the men themselves—of course with one friend as the head, who w... | 1 | 2,987 | 737 | 3,724 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | . A report has lately been published upon M. Barbier's plan for International Schools. The international jury, of which Mr. Cobden, M. Michel Chevalier, Sir James Kay Shuttleworth, and Dr. Johnson are members, are the authors of this report, which is published by Dulau, Soho Square, MULLE. CHARLOTTE JACQUES has gained ... | 1 | 3,115 | 714 | 3,829 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | ( 286 )
XLV.—PASSING EVENTS.
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EWJ-1863-06-01 | 71 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | visitors of the house, every pains has been taken not only to render medical benefit to the poor women who are received, but as far as possible to exert upon them a good moral influence.
The number of patients seeking aid from the Infirmary has steadily in-creased as it has become more widely known. The number attende... | 1 | 2,923 | 793 | 3,716 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_71 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 71 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | . A fixed rule will be established with regard to the preliminary education | 1 | 4,075 | 13 | 4,088 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_71 |
EWJ-1863-06-01 | 72 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | to be required of Students, and all applicants for admission will be expected to pass a previous examination in accordance with its requirements.
Thus two important objects would be secured, both indispensable to the progress of the medical education of women at the present time.
First, the opening for them of a good... | 1 | 2,923 | 778 | 3,701 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-06-01_page_72 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 1 | 0 | 2 | text | 1 | THE SPEECHES OF THE RT. HON. WILLIAM EWART GLADEW, LATE LORD CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND. IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, DURING THE SESSIONS OF 1834, 1835, AND 1836. WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE LATE LORD CHANCELLOR. BY SAMUEL WALWORTH, ESQ. LONDON: PRINTED FOR SAMUEL WALWORTH. 1837. | 1 | 505 | 139 | 644 | B0C2R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 1 | 1 | 0 | text | 3 | PUBLISHED MONTHLY.
Vol. XI. April 1, 1863. No. 62. | 1 | 4,075 | 29 | 4,104 | B1C0R3 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 1 | 1 | 0 | text | 4 | XII.—FACTORY WOMEN AND SERVANTS.
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EWJ-1863-04-01 | 1 | 1 | 0 | text | 5 | No one, perhaps, will deny the general statement, that the advance of the manufacturing prosperity of our country, and the consequent absorption of our female population in tending the varied and beautiful mechanism employed, has, in a very material degree, interfered with the development of the household capabilities ... | 1 | 4,075 | 342 | 4,417 | B1C0R5 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 1 | 1 | 0 | text | 6 | What then can be done? We cannot get mistresses to do what they themselves know nothing about, and have no need to do, because it would be a good plan thus to train working women. Besides, the great manufacturing tendency of the age cannot, and will not, and ought not to be checked. Surely we are not so cowardly, or so... | 1 | 4,075 | 144 | 4,219 | B1C0R6 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 1 | 1 | 0 | title | 2 | ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNAL. | 1 | 4,075 | 11 | 4,086 | B1C0R2 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 1 | 1 | 1 | text | 7 | Vol. XI.
XII.—FACTS.
No one, perhaps, will of the manufacturing absorption of our femaleful mechanism employ with the development of women. It could not the pictures of the days of eighty or ninety years us, either through trascriptions in the litera households of the same delight of our grandm to spin, to weave, to ... | 3 | 2,241 | 288 | 2,529 | B1C1R7 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 1 | 1 | 1 | text | 8 | VOL. XI. | 1 | 505 | 5 | 510 | B1C1R8 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 1 | 1 | 2 | text | 9 | APRIL 1, 1863. | 1 | 505 | 12 | 517 | B1C2R9 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 1 | 1 | 3 | text | 10 | No. 62. | 1 | 505 | 6 | 511 | B1C3R10 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 2 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | But that while this transition from domestic industry to that of the factory has been and is so rapidly going on, the middle classes ought also to be equally forced into some new forms of social industry is very evident. If they, as a class, can no longer be like the woman “who seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willin... | 1 | 2,987 | 587 | 3,574 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_2 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 3 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | infinitely more useful and happy than it would otherwise have become? Again, the child taken from the school to the factory need not be lost sight of, and the life there need not, and in some cases does not, crush out of the girl all those tenderesses, those loving energies, which bear out the proverb of “where there’s... | 1 | 2,859 | 673 | 3,532 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_3 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 4 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | at least over the social life of factory hands, is a subject of greater importance, since it is an unusual remedy, which, if once generally resorted to, would go far to check the deterioration of the female population in factory districts, as regards domestic virtues and acquisitions. Probably most of the readers of th... | 1 | 2,987 | 580 | 3,567 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_4 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 4 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "For be it remembered, these girls are not getting even the ordinary training of home life. They have never been in service, | 1 | 3,949 | 28 | 3,977 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_4 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 5 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | and they are not going into service. They are out of the woman's sphere, and they are, in a great measure, deprived of the ordinary chances of culture which Providence allots to those who are "gathered together" in families. Yet the life of the district will not therefore stop; they will marry and rear children, the fo... | 1 | 2,987 | 579 | 3,566 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_5 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 5 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "I never shall forget the scene in a cottage one day when a child, fell into a bad fit, and though the neighbours were washing, and there was plenty of hot water within a stone's throw, the bewil- | 1 | 3,949 | 47 | 3,996 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_5 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 6 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | dered mother and grandmother, a couple of aunts, and a dropper-in, sat moaning and exclaiming, while the visitors ran for a tub in one direction, and a pail in another, and probably saved the child's life by giving it a bath. I have seen on board a Thames steamer, a sickly baby, under a year old, sucking away at the le... | 1 | 4,139 | 456 | 4,595 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_6 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 6 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | ... That which is taught in the school to the girls must be carried out in practice with the mothers, so far as the resources of the poor allow. A woman in the position we are describing has the power of saving many lives in the course of the year. Not a day passed of all the many I have spent at Halstead, that people ... | 1 | 4,075 | 202 | 4,277 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_6 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 7 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Numerous cases occurred in which the superintendent was the means of drafting sick people into special hospitals, arranging everything for their transit and reception; and among a country population, living remote from any of our great centres, this sort of active kindness, which seems so simple, is of rare and utmost ... | 1 | 3,883 | 435 | 4,318 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_7 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 7 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | - ''It is evident that for duties so multifarious and undefined, the first requisite is character,—a certain share of mental and physical force. The work is laborious, and it would be useless to employ a sickly or feeble person; it is also peculiarly anxious and responsible, and a nervous temperament would never bear t... | 1 | 3,949 | 186 | 4,135 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_7 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 8 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | I have merely been an eye-witness is, that being much accustomed to see and converse with ladies who might naturally think of undertaking such a post, I know how stringent should be the demands of an employer in regard to the mental and physical power of a missionary. It is not simply a trained teacher from our normal ... | 1 | 4,075 | 186 | 4,261 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_8 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 8 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | FROM THE GERMAN OF OTTILIE WILDERMUTH.
(Continued from page 33.)
The Pastor replied: 'Dear Elise, I will not do violence to your heart and to your will, but if you can venture to trust me, you may rely upon my honourable endeavour to gain your love, and upon the quiet power of domestic life to bring you happiness. Go... | 1 | 4,075 | 387 | 4,462 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_8 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 8 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XIII.—CONSTANCY MISPLACED. | 1 | 4,075 | 13 | 4,088 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_8 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 9 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | was correct, that two honest hearts who pursue the same path must live happily together, time must show. It is always a hazardous experiment to effect a union in the confidence that love will come afterwards; it has failed many a time.
Stern had not a very bright courtship; Elise had too often to struggle against her ... | 1 | 3,371 | 541 | 3,912 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_9 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 9 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | - Stern and Elise had wished that her mother should share their home, but the good old lady thought it better to leave the young people to themselves, and retained her former dwelling, which was not very distant from them. The liberty of ordering and arranging in her own household, the as yet light cares of housekeepin... | 1 | 3,949 | 95 | 4,044 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_9 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 10 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | animated and rejoiced her heart, and she was often obliged to force herself with repentance to the nourishment of a grief, to which her heart did not as formerly incline itself.
The honeymoon is but a childish expression for the first weeks of matrimony: a more appropriate name should be found, but still the time shou... | 1 | 3,825 | 352 | 4,177 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_10 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 10 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Elise soon began to reproach herself for allowing so much happiness to creep into her heart, and endeavoured to atone for it by making the memory of her brother, of Oscar, of that one day of bliss, and of the long night which followed it, the subject of conversation with her husband. It would have been well if the Past... | 1 | 3,825 | 266 | 4,091 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_10 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 11 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | estrangement which can disturb conjugal happiness, misunderstanding. "He does not understand me, that which is the soul of my life does not affect him in the least," thought Elise with bitter sorrow. She consecrated the room upstairs, in which she had placed the weapons of her brother, and all the relics of her short s... | 1 | 4,075 | 184 | 4,259 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_11 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 11 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | This state of matters was reached by slow degrees; it was only the quiet garden for the dead in her heart which Elise desired at first to retain for herself; everything else she was willing to share with her husband. As girl and young lady she had been diligent and fond of study, and in the days of her mourning, litera... | 1 | 3,819 | 435 | 4,254 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_11 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 12 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | beside his wife and rest his mind by pleasant conversation or enjoyable silence which is often more delightful to men than women can exactly understand. When at such a time his wife brought out her Greek dictionary, her Plato, or her Plutarch, it was only an annoyance to him. "Oh, my dear" he would say, "please let the... | 1 | 2,859 | 600 | 3,459 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_12 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 12 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Elise intended to fulfil her household duties, but she lacked the | 1 | 3,949 | 13 | 3,962 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_12 |
EWJ-1863-04-01 | 13 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | humility to perceive her deficiencies. The uncomfortable feeling which the consciousness of any omission brought upon her, she as-cribed to her husband; and when she was in reality aware of her fault, he failed in the generosity which is always the accompaniment of a fine nature, and which shows itself in the good-humo... | 1 | 3,949 | 100 | 4,049 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1863-04-01_page_13 |
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