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    THE LADIES' SANITARY ASSOCIATION,, 887

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    and his chivalries of war : lie does not strike the unarmed man ; he the woman , and the child . But Nature is fierce when

    she spares is offendedas she is bounteous and kind when she is obeyed . , She spares neither woman nor child . She has no pity : for some

    awful , but most _g-ood reason , she is not allowed to have any pity . Silently she strikes the sleeping child , with as little remorse as she

    would strike the strong man , with the spade or the pickaxe in his hand . Ah ! would to God that some man had the pictorial eloquence to put

    before the mothers of England the mass of preventable suffering , the mass of preventable agony of mind and body , which exists in

    England year after year ! And would that some man had the melodramatic eloquence to make them understand that it is in their

    power , in the power of the mothers and wives of the higher class , I will not say to stop it all ,- —God only knows that , —but to stop , as

    I believe , three fourths of it . " It is in the power , I believe , of any woman in this room to save

    three or four lives , human lives , during the next six months . It is in ladiesand it is so easy . You might save several

    dail lives your a business piece power , if or you , with chose , , without dail , leasure I believe , or interfering if you choose with with your

    your y daily frivolities , , in your any way y p whatsoever , , . Let me ask , , then , those who are hereand who have not yet laid these things to heart :

    , Will you let this meeting to-day be a mere passing matter of two or three hours' interest , that you shall _g"o away and _forget for the

    next book or the next " amusement ? Or will you be in earnest ? "Will learn—I it openly—from the noble chairman , how

    it you is to be in earnest say in life how one of amid all the easy artificial complications of English ; society every in the nineteenth you , century ,

    < can find , a work to do , and a noble work to do , and a chivalrous work to do , —just as chivalrous as if you lived in any old fairy land ,

    such as Spenser talked of in his ' Faery Queene ; ' how you can be as chivalrous nowand as true a knight-errantor lady-errant in the

    present century , , as if you had lived far aw , ay in the dark ages of violence and rapine ? Will you , I ask , learn this ? Will you learn

    to be in earnest , and to use the position , and the station , and the talent that God has iven youto save alive those wlio should live ?

    And will you remember g that it , is not the will of your Father that is in Heaven that one little one that plays in the kennel outside

    should perish , either in body or in soul ?" We have selected Mr . Kingsley _' s speech , because the excellent

    address delivered by Lord Shaftesbury in his capacity of chairman has been duly reported in the daily papers . Various other

    gentlemen also spoke on the occasion , and bore emphatic testimony to the

    value of woman ' s work in sanitary reform .

    The Ladies' Sanitary Association,, 887

    THE LADIES' SANITARY ASSOCIATION ,, 887

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 387, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/27/