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    52 LADIES 9 INSTITUTE.

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    -«©*——1st The December Number Of This Jo...

    is to intended twenty , it to is unnecessary la want to seri dwell ousl at and length increasin . Thi l s department felti . e . h y

    scientific training supp , to y turn to practical y account the ordinary gy desul , tory educ The ation of girls advance ' schoo w ls . ich has ' " V been made during the last few

    years in rap the employment of female labor , and the success which has even more recently attended its partial introduction into railway

    stations , etc ., warrants , and indeed necessitates , the practical training of girls and adults for those more responsible situations long filled by

    women in France , and from which there is every reason to believe Eng shall lishwomen have replaced will inefficiency no longer and be excluded trained female when labor once be efficiency readily

    , obtainable . There are few among us who are not familiar with the painful

    and embarrassing position in which women of cultivated minds and tastes , reared in ease and comfort , find themselves when suddenly

    h obli owever ged to work lished for their their livelihood acquirements . However are for carefull the most y educa part ted de- ,

    sultory ; accomp and , in the first , hurry and shock of loneliness and selfdependence , their powers become paralysed , the real hardships and

    discomforts of their position assume forms so gigantic as often to shadow their whole futureand lend to honest laborin itself a

    happiness and a delight , g , loom and despair from which , there is often no after escape .

    A woman thus situated knows not where to turn . Her friends are equally puzzled . Knowledge she may have , but she knows not

    how to use or impart it . Learning and teaching are two very different thingsas she learns now probably for the first timeand

    when she flies , to that refuge for the destitute , the governess , ' s vocationshe finds her want of experience an insuperable- bar to

    the few lucrative , situations it has to offer . Now the plan we are about to submit has a remedy in view for

    this evil . An adult class for the training of women thus thrown upon their resources will form a prominent feature ; and , whether as

    governess or book-keeper , clerk or secretary , the advantages in obtaining a situation as member of a first-class institution are

    selfevident . and It sitting is proposed -room to in give one a being home appropriated to fifty Lady to -Residents each , with ; a the bed- use room of

    room public and their being drawing friends reserved -room while exclusivel , library the library , y and for and the dining dining use -rooms of -rooms the ; Lad the will y-Residents be drawing acces-

    -Bible to out-door , Lady-Members , according to the rules of the Institution .

    A house is at this moment in the market , which offers rare advantages both as to situationpriceand conditions of purchaseand

    the immediate co-operation of , all parties , interested in the subject , is

    earnestly invited .

    52 Ladies 9 Institute.

    52 LADIES INSTITUTE .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1859, page 52, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031859/page/52/