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    TUITION OR TRADE ? 179

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    dice our _entering not run into as counter industrial to non this -domestic hih conception occupations of ? our Does " natural

    prejug one sphere in , the " as field at present of labor it ? does Are to we our not taking told * over up a and very over common again -p that lace their instincts

    much brain work is hurtful to the sex , that it destroys , and mars their beauty , until we are heart-sick of the nonsense ? that have

    It is a relief to meet with those who knowing women possible brains , consider and here it ri we ght shake that they hands should with use all them who maintain to any extent this

    ; just more op than inion . the That maj all ority women of , men knowled or even , will the ever majority stud devote of from women their the entire , any

    energies to the acquirement of ge or y , pure love not onl of y gaining doubt , but information feel convinced , even that were neither it their men duty nor so women to do , will we

    make the attempt . The greater proportion of women , as of men , prefer action to thought ; and many women with rather this natural than activity that of

    will teaching , if a , if choic the e said be offered pursuit , sele does ct not any involve pursuit loss of " caste . " Another false idea to be combatedis the idea that to be a

    governess is considered less fatal to gentilit , y than to be overseer in a shop clerk , . or Girls manager who of take a warehouse " the , trade an accountant of teaching , or , " a do government not enter up

    with sponsibilities upon their the difficult preconceive and work arduous d op with inions demands any of clear " lad ; it y conception ism is " simp they ly of can chosen its find grave nothing because

    reelse to square with them . minds in None themselve " seem gentlewomen s sufficientl by education " y ( cognisant in and the mann of ers the , si by gnificance fact association , that unless of with the they refined term are )

    nothing , apart from , themselves proper can make them what the title , implies . No cramming of little girls or boys with elementary

    kno can sitting German wled perform richl , ge will , y no the attired bring thundering miracle about in a fashionable that if on the a desired piano materiel drawing , consummation no be stammering not room within in p any lacid at themselves more French idleness than or .

    Our reasons for endeavoring , to diminish the numbers of raw and unfit educators are two-foldIn the first lace we consider that the few

    not the many , are qualified . by disposition p , and ability for the , onerous ofiice . And in the second place , we believe that by the

    numchance that bers being numbers of lessened being now remunerated , run those , of who being are in obli a really way ged fit that in for old will the age dut prevent to y have accep the a t fairer alm risk eke s

    either from benevolent societies or generous friends , in order to turn out _' a women scanty living ( as a ;* bod we y ) do from therefore the career , as the of writer governesses asserts , , " advising wish to

    Benevolent _recentl * Ono y hundred been Institution made and by . forty aged -five and app infirm lications governesse for four vacant s , at the annuities Governesses have

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    Tuition Or Trade ? 179

    TUITION OR TRADE ? 179

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1860, page 179, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051860/page/35/