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    CALLING A SPADE A SPADE. 845

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    sidered ! Lady Bountiful that the women of an Eng and lish children village fell . to She her very especial naturall responsi y con - -

    personal and bility , ersuading and trouble was inclined them in remed to to y adop ing spare t their better neither griefs habits , money curing in , their nor their houses advice ailments , and nor _,

    babie persons p s ; . she She strugg attacke led d hard the to hot introduc , heavy e soap caps and worn water by the ; and to negro she be went to the Infirmarywhere sick slaves were supposed

    , nursedwith a laudable intention of attending to the invalids . As hospitals , are just now a favourite subject with English

    philanthropists , we will give her experience in her own words . " The -l infirmary anted is b a etween large the two two -story rows building of houses , terminating which form the the broad first orangepspace

    to rooms settle me ment . on But m ; y it how entering is built shall of the I describ whitewashed first of e to these you wood ? the But , spectacl and half contains the e whi casements ch four was large , presented of wh -sized ich

    t much here , were as the other , were windowless glazed , and ones these were were darkened obscured by the ith dingy dirt , almost shutters , from which the the cold shivering the inmates had f chimney astened to limmered , in order the to p powerless rotect themselves embers

    of a few sticks . of In wood enormous round whichhowever g as many of the sick women as could approach were , cowering ; some , on wooden , ill too settles rise , and most these of th last em

    poor bur on i ed wretches in ground tattered lay , excludin prostrate and filth g those on blankets the who floor were wh , i without ch too hudd bed led , round mattress ; th , or pil t hey _,

    t heir y str hour ewed of about sickness , left and hardl suffering y y space , lay to , those move , whose upon erh the health floor and . And strength here , are in

    t s h p ent ing in urged unrequited sons on were to th labour even eir unpaid at for that us— task hour those — sweating those who , whose p over ap husbands s the even earth yesterday , fa whose thers , , pro bro e - -

    duce was to buy , for us all the luxuries which health can revel in , all the fectl comforts unable which to can speak allevi the at tears e sickness pouring . I from stood in the at midst this of sad them spectacle ,

    perchild to of their them y -birth . misery Here others , myself lay who women , and had expecting my just emotion broug every ht alike their hour strange my doomed the eyes terrors and offspring incomprehensible and agonie into s the of ;

    and world of miscarriages achin ; others with who — rheumatis here were lay gr m some oaning uo burning n over the the hard with anguish cold fever ground and , others bitter , the chilled disapp draug with ointment hts cold and

    stench condition dampness , and g of here every the they atmosp aggravation lay here like , increasing brute of p which beasts sickness their , absorbed sufferings is capable in , and , combined hysical dirt , nois suffering in e , their and ;

    — , p unvisited sations of by pain any and of illness those Divine , forsaken influences , as it seemed them which ! may to me ennoble , of all take the good dispen notic ; and

    human yet that , O this e God the is , the Thou overseer hosp surel ital efficient y hadst of an not and estate forsaken kind where and the the owners negroes Now are , pray remarkab supposed ly to well be e

    cared for , and comfortable . " , , Mrs . Kemble , bidding the old t midwife , Rose , open to make the shutt the ers

    fire of such amidst windows cries as of horror had glass at her in using hem , proceeded her own hands , when up " rooms have , ni of gg this er en wretched ough , mis lace sis , to left with it ; " her and " clothes ter visi covered ting all with the

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    Calling A Spade A Spade. 845

    CALLING A SPADE A SPADE . 845

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1863, page 345, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071863/page/57/