On this page

• Text (1)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    400 THE LADY J S DILEMMA.

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    U P And U ]^Y I Son Must Is Going Get Hi...

    And All The The _eyes eldest s darted cho were ol stood was here fixed then before and intentl in darted a classes map y , there as , of th the at children to pointer hun point g against great new the about and laces the small wall , out ; ,

    And one might almost , smile to see , the lady ' s great p surprise ; _^ " The When Duchies children and small the repeated Provinces all Danubian the Princi and palities Fren , ch

    In words almost , as accurate as those , we gain from Trench , ; And They where told where the famous all the rivers was rise born that the feed husban the Mississi d of Xanti ppi , sage .

    The lady said , " This surely is an almost , useless task . " ppe And " The in Inspector the maps 's especiall coming y shortl , we y wish , Ma them 'am—we to excel don ' t ; know what he'll ask ,

    As Lest other when schools he makes , and report thus incur of us discouragement , we should not and stand blame so well , And The lad bring y felt a slur the , reasoning it may be , , and on the turned Governess her to ' s a name class . "

    That She listened round a with pupil astonishment -teacher had , to arranged hear grammarian itself to parse s young . They Anatomize marshalle the Very d all roots the parts of our of fine Speech English and tongue with no ; hesitation

    Of every kind of "Verb they showed Mood , , Tense , and Conjugation , . : The those lady triump felt her hant ignorance , eager , eye and s , was how afrai little d ladies to show know ;

    And So passed here , again to where she almost another felt class inclined was then to run in full _away disp . lay , Such miracles in Hule of Three ! such mental calculation !

    "Whilst Billions and Q , uintillions ran in easy numeration . . ; But now at last she called to mind , the thing for which she came ,

    And Could strai she g hav ht went e half to -a- the dozen Governess shirts made , her business bthe children there to there name ? . About her shirt work , she must say , she was y particular .

    But The one mistress might looked read upon along her the face form , s she , to knew scan her they workers 'd not the o ' er power , . " We've very few good workers now '—our time is

    fullvery And So many little other interest things is felt have about been the put sewing foremost too in the school—Compared with many other things the children , have to do !

    Of The course learned consider Gentlemen needlework who come beneath , with their College observation education . , It But is as we interest gain a of grant of books to , and out money their rules for the schools ,

    our course carry . To I wi give sh that importance ladies competent to the things were that " made women Inspectors ought too to , do ;

    We should not then be posed to find young people who could sew ; And 'Tis nothing were but own encouragement inion asked th I at certainl children should want , you know . my op

    The But time 'tis with that that ' s spent as other in needlework things , , in is order never y to thrown excel , say away , ; There must be time and practice both , before they do it well . "

    The lady looked at all the work , and sadly shook her head ,

    She plainly saw that at the school her shirts could not be made . She went away—what next she didI need not now relate , ,

    She But reconciled I have heard her it mind , as a to fact wh , at that she from had that opposed very before date , , That must hmachines

    we ave to sew , now hands can sew no more _.

    400 The Lady J S Dilemma.

    400 THE LADY S DILEMMA .

• Citation
  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1860, page 400, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021860/page/40/