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MADAME SWETCHINE. 387
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the took _Restoration part in many "but of her the work articu s lar of ch in arit terest y founde attached d in itself France to after the p
deaf and dumb . , In 1827 the administrative council , to which was created confided two the comites general de patronage direction of one the of men Deaf for and the Dumb boys Institution the other of ,
women , for the girls . These two _, committees , were especiall , y designed to bestow protectors on the deaf and dunib children when the time
first came president for their of leaving the coniniittee the asy of lums ladies . . Madame In 183 Swetchin 7 she adopted e was into the
beaut her own y , many household excellent a young qualities deaf , and and a very dumb bad girl temper , who . had This great girl
she used to take out with her in her morning walks , leaning upon took her arm all Madame , and making Swetchine as far ' s habitual as possible tact a and companion gentleness of to her soften . It
the violent disputes into which Farisse entered with the other servants But the ; men battle and was women won at alike lastParisse came in becam for her e gentle inarticulat and good e anger , and .
utterl with her y devoted for nearl to y her thirty mistress years , , , whom and , watching she served over to the her end on intereste the , living bed d
of death . In 1838 Madame Swetchine became similarly into in a the famil extreme y at Chantill of povert y , who y . had Madame seen better Louvo d s , ays the , but aged then mother fallen ,
teen was Swetchine . bar D el uring y lavished supported the autumn kindness by the which on labors these she of two her spent ladies daug at hter and Chantill , a in girl January y , of Madame seven she
loving p says laced Mademoiselle - counsels the younger When one Louvos as I had assistant , " doubts how in much about an ouvroir good , calling she . " did When 1 and me thoug there by her ht /'
what of chang hold ing it had my . situation her , I mind found . How how kindl full rny she she was showed , of ch me arity of , y
care what and use I exhorted might upon be me to to the atience young . " women Mademoiselle who were Elisa confided Louvos to my is p
at Her the , present care for time her own directress Hussian of serfs one of , whom the first she ouvroirs would never in Paris allow .
to be alienated into other hands , was very touching . Unable to live and Russia among indefati kept them gable her , she informed m correspondence ade them of every the thing . object Her that friends of occurred an incessan in the on her t interior vi that estates gilance she of ,
questioned and it is easy them to much see by more their about replies the , found moral among well-being her letters of the , families on those estates than about the state of her revenues . She is found
pairing promoting the * enfranchisement disastrous transport with of unceasing serfs from car one e , estate forbidding to another or re- ,
and communicating to others in the pursuit of amelioration the same and which she displayed in her own person . A
perseverance energy private dame Swetchine letter , apparentl as endeavoring y from a - female to" fathom friend the , evidentl relations y shows between Ma _«
the serfs and their overseers , and listening to the complaints of run-
Madame Swetchine. 387
MADAME SWETCHINE . 387
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 387, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/27/
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