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    WITH REFERENCE TO THEIR FUTURE POSITION....

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    The education provided should be , for the younger children , of a general nature , and more for the purpose of developing the reasoning

    and thinking powers than for that of filling the memory . The object engage elder g , arithmetic irls in business should and receive and book earn - such keep their ing instruction should own b living be book as particularl would hereafter qualif y attended . be y For of them much thi to to s .

    Arithmetic will notunless followed _xip y -keeping , service in procuring , well remunerated situations , but great numbers of these would be to women -who thoroughly understood this branch

    of business . For open instance , every large shop has its cashier , and the duties of this office might be perfectly well performed by a woman ,

    as indeed they very generally are in France . in A a gain roug , h small way b shop y the s do owner not ; possess but every cashier three s , months the book an s being accountant kept

    comes round who looks over them , strikes the balance , and sets all mistakes to rights ; now why should not this accountant be a woman ?

    Another wide field of employment of the same , kind will probably be ened shortlMr . Ske ' s plan for forming savings' banks in

    connexion op with money y . order y offices can scarcely fail to be put into _execiition before many months have elapsed , and this will occasion a

    demand for a large number of clerks , who must understand accounts well , be thoroughly honest , and yet not require a very large salary if ;

    a combination much more likely to be found in women than men , ducted they were clerks only requiring properly onl instructed y moderate ; and pay a , would staff of do sober real , service well-con to

    -, the An country objection in this to situation the teaching . of book-keeping in schools has

    sometimes been raised on the ground that the systems of keeping accounts are so numerous in trade that almost every shop or office

    adopts a different plan ; ' but in fact , the differences between the and systems a person are onl who y like in learning those to a be forei observed gn langu in age books had made of gram himself mar ,

    master of the system pursued in one grammar would find little diffi author culty in comprehending But the best argument the plan for adopted teaching in g another irls book by -keep a different ing is ,

    . that it is frequently taught at boys' schools , which would not be done if it were found to be of no use afterwards .

    nience A reg of ister employers ought who also mi to g be ht want kept at female the school book-keepers for the , clerks conve , -

    or saleswomen . A good knowledge of arithmetic short of book-keeping ,

    especially mental arithmetic , would enable girls to become saleswomen in shops . It has been frequently stated that 30 , 000 men are

    emp one loyed can in wish England to see in the a fresh sale generation of articles of of female boys broug attire . ht Now up and no

    sacrificed to this feminine occupation , yet this must happen unless

    a sufficient number of girls are educated to undertake the work in

    With Reference To Their Future Position....

    WITH REFERENCE TO THEIR FUTURE POSITION . 221

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 221, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/5/