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    INTERFERENCE. 387

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    And this leads to a few practical remarks on the subject o $ our workhouses and other institutions which inay not be altogether

    unprofitable . First , I would remark that the " English Woman ' s Journal" would do good service by ascertaining and giving details

    of all those institutions where women are admitted to any part of the control or management , whether schools , hospitals , or any other

    kind of asylums . There are , no doubt , many in which at least the women ' s and children ' s department , or the household arrangements ,

    are placed under the control and supervision of ladies , and it would "be well for our present argument if all these were known and

    recognised , for a precedent is a great help in urging the adoption of tolerated and any dislike ( apparentl by by a y maj the ) new ority minority suggestion , and there looke . d So is upon no long hop with as e lad but positive y that visitors their susp are efforts icion only

    , simp to hel le p plan will to alway obviate s be this deemed would be " int for erfer gentlemen ence . " ( But whether surel guar y the

    must dians know or others more ) to of say matters openly conn , nobl ected y , and with generousl the management y , " "Women of

    women and children and the household than we do ; we ask them to assist us in this departmentas it is natural and right , and in the

    , established order of God I ' s would providence then that suggest they that should lad . " y visitors This princi , according ple being to

    the size of , the establishment , should be selected , or invited , or actedand then sanctioned and authorised by the superiors or

    guardians cep , , so that they should not be at the mercy , and in fact at ment official the dismissal and who affairs may , ( for uninspected choose it amount to prefer s and to thi unwatched having s , ) of every 1 his . or i Out gnorant her of own this and manage number jealous

    for with and of visitors especial desire her on , for who the co the -op management we eration work mig , ht let with suppose there of the household be matron would , say two be , , matter assisting chosen or four s , , for or and and their six upon advising selected fitness all

    sing things le suggestion connected rest must with the be the control broug women ht of before and the children finances the guardians . and Of course the , with ultimate whom every would always ,

    that rejection or enormity adoption whether of every of proposal expense ; or therefore any other it is kind impossible , could

    any , What take place mischi without eftherefore the knowled could ge arise and from sanction carry of ing the this gentlemen proposal .

    of into the effect difficulties I cannot , which imagine at , present ; and it attend seems the to me labors the onl of y ladies solution in for them to

    refrain workhouses from and wishing elsewhere to make ; for suggestions whilst it , is it impossible is equally certain that if they probably do , they be will dismissed either be altogether denounced from as interfering jealousy , and or they ill-will will .

    And more let us observethat it is just where they are most wanted that they of the are guardians most sure . , to It be is repulsed easy to imag , unless ine supported how the sli by ghtest the authority act of a

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    Interference. 387

    INTERFERENCE . 387

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 337, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/49/