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    ; *' We Should Not Omit To Mention That ...

    peculiar to ourselves " as English , people ; adding that if " ever the combination of female with masculine supervision were imperatively

    needed Miss it Twining is in an answers English to parish my app , workhouse lication h . " y the following written

    statement : 66 It has been asked in what way remunerative employment can be

    houses found for ? There women seem in the to management be two ways and in superintendence which both women of work and

    workhouses ' " The first mi means ght be for most raising materiall the standard y benefited for . matrons would be in to

    offer better salariesso that such women as we find engaged prisons would be induced , to fill these posts . At present the salaries of matrons are far below those of masters while one is sometimes

    ; per eight annum y pounds , and , the so on other in this ( in proportion the same , w the orkhouse matron ) is always forty pounds being - .

    considered subordinate to the master . Surely this is a very strange are arrangement women and wlien children we consider , and of the how men large the a chief proportion part are of sick her inmates and

    infirm . * Yetif the matron does her work conscientiously , post fulfilled is hard enoug is an h impossibility , ; indeed , to . fulfil Another all its most duties fatal as and they monstrous ought to evil be

    . the in thus younger substituting women man in ' workhouses s work for woman by men ' s , is " labor the supervision " or " task of - !

    requiring masters , " the often utmost young , skill and and always jud unsuited gment of to experienced the office ( one women , alas . ) The utmost that can be expected of them is to kethe women at

    such work as hair or oakum picking by what means ep they can ; the whole idea is revolting to common sense and judgment in every

    point of view . "Were the matron made tlie chief person and head of the establishment , all this would be altered ; a " labor-master "

    mi the able ght stores to of work cours , etc , and . e , be as a Htl clerk in y hosp kept mi itals g to ht superintend . be If appointed the present such to keep of race the the men of accounts masters as are act ,

    under must continue them as subordinates as heads , no . educated But no one woman head could whoever of course she might , becould be sufficientand the question then arisesWill the

    guarworkhouses dians , ever agre shoul _. e d to become , pay as what many they persons ought to as be are ? , required There is if then our

    open the other way we alluded to by which women may be usefully and not ruinouslloyed in workhousesThis is by their being

    organised other name as bodies . y emp Women of workers of small , whether means - called miht deaconesses club together , or and by

    live any in far greater comfort and economy than g in separate lodgings ; and such homes , in consideration of fcheir usefulness , might lay

    claim to public support for tlie expenses necessary for maintaining a fund for pensions in sickness and old and for the support of

    age , 53 551 On children the 1 st of while January of males , 1858 * onl , there 88 were 092 . of indoor poor , 42 , 414 women , y

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    222 WHAT CAN EDUCATED WOMEN DO ?

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 222, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/6/