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    SANITARY LECTURES. 5 3

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    As Many Readers Of The English Woman's J...

    Dividing the means of improving * the dwellings of the poor into the three following classes : —firstGovernment measures ; second ,

    the action of public bodies , of voluntary , associations , and of emloyers of labor ; and third , personal influence , Mr . Roberts assigned

    p " a large portion of the last to women , as follows : — u Although the power of aiding directly in the removal of existing

    structural defects in the dwellings of the poor is not very generally possessed est benefit by in ladies pointing , their out influence to others al may , and be exerted in which persuading with have the them alread great to

    been carry referred into operation to . * , Ther those e remedi is a wide measures field here for the exercise of y ladies' influenceThey can impart instructioncan exhort ,

    encou-. , rage shines , stimulate with such , and attractive , above lustre all , can in the manifest crowning that grace sympath of Christian y which

    charit _" Ladies y . can exercise a personal influence by either teaching or free admission

    causing to be taught , the benefits resulting from a of air and from personal and household cleanliness . They can

    facilitate pure the attaining of such articles as whitewash brushes and ventilatorsas well as the mending of broken windows . They may

    also enforce , more eciallon wives and mothersa careful attention to the , details esp which y conduce so much to , health and domany

    mestic comfortand render home attractive rather than repulsive to husbands and sons , They can likewise be instrumental in

    promot-. ing on home those comforts habits of 'the temperance fool ' s pence - which , whereb enable y husbands the publican to expend is

    enriched to the impoverishment and incalculable injury of the laboring classes .

    the " best Ladies kept have cottages , by the , greatl best owme cond n uced t of premiums to the health and and rewards the com for

    fort of their occupants . " lecture * The on following woman ' s very parish beautiful workbear words so , directl from the and Rev forcibl . Charles y on this Kjngsley point ' s ,

    , y your that " A they famil large may y to proportion be do fitl their y quoted of duty your here by parish their : — dependants work will be . to You influence wish to the cure men the of

    your evils under men rel which atives . they It is labor a mockery . The for greater you to part visit of the these fever are -stricken in the hands _cottag of e while your husband leaves it in a state which breeds that fever . Tour

    busilized beaut ness is i times ful to middle go ; to not him -age merely legend and to say tell melt , ' Here us man , has is ' s a been heart wrong woman to is , ri in p g ity ht ' earnest s , function itV but to This that awaken in _^ , all as if many he uncivi it will to a -

    b not duty self repair . -sacrifice But the the wrong . man Be b must sure y justic this see e , that method she the will w , woman if ill possible conquer ( as . in Do those but : old say , legends 4 If you ) , will

    will not y not new-roof dress that till cottage it is done , if you I will will not ell make the horse that drain , I will me . I pawn

    the that bracelet buy you a are new you in earnest gave me and , but he the wil ; thing l feel that shall s your be done message . ' you Let is gave him a divine see , , I say one , ,

    which he must obey for , very shame and weariness , if for nothing else . "

    Sanitary Lectures. 5 3

    SANITARY LECTURES . 5 3

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 53, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/53/