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    2 84 open council.

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    To the Editor of the English Woman's Jou...

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    To The Editor Of Hie Jenglish Woman" 1 S...

    At Bruges I had the gratification of seeing the Superioress , several of the Sisters , and the founder , Canon Maas . He indeed maybe justly regarded as

    the head and heart of the whole . He is an enthusiast of the noblest kind ; and I only wish your correspondent " Z" had heard him give his opinion , and enlarge on his plans and hopes . The whole system of treatment has

    been changed since St . Julian's came into his hands . The former proprietor , who was a man of kindly feelings , had become utterly disgusted with the hopelessness of the attempt to manage properly an establishment of the kind

    by means of irresponsible underlings , and suggested to Canon Maas that he , himself should take the house , put his sound theories into practice , and get a Sisterhood to carry out his views . This was done . The Superioress of one

    tion of the , to Bel inaugurate gian religious the communities good work ; g she ladly came consented to St . , Julian on the ' s , _Canonls and was invita soon - joined by other true-hearted women , ready to devote their lives to the care

    of the most terribly afflicted of all God ' s creatures . The _Carton lives in the hospital . Also in the other house the Director , who is indeed a worthy disinvaluable ciple of the is founder the aid , resides thus afforded on the to premises the Sisters . One b can the readil zeal y and understand wise counsel how y

    of such men . The poor in these establishments , are supported by their under respective In other the _jDarishes parts care of of , Belg Sisterhoods and there ium , hosp is . a At itals regular Caen for inspection the in insane _Normand b are y Government likewise is a very , I believe officers large . ,

    establishment of the kind . Even nowwithin , a few hun y dred , yards of my , home about , a will building be known is in as course an hosp of ital erection for the , which insane , before under many the months care of the are

    world , -famous Sisters of Charity of St . Vincent de Paul , . I remain , dear Madam , yours very sincerely , S . A .

    Dublin , October 19 th , 1860 .

    2 84 Open Council.

    2 84 open _council .

    To The Editor Of The English Woman's Jou...

    To the Editor of the English Woman ' s Journal . Madam ,

    which It is most admirable gratifying Journal to all who is devoted are interested to note in how the surel great and question steadil to public your opinion is breaking down the stiff barriers , of prejudice y and injustice y

    which have so long restricted the exertions of women to a few overcrowded employments . And yet , thankfully as we acknowledge that the shadows are now fading tread away it from in the our li path ht of , and day that undeterred , hard and by obsolete stony as spectres it may be one , we must can

    note now and then strange g out-of , -the-way corners where the sun has , not yet pierced , and where in more , than middle-aged darkness certain goblin forms are seen waving back the " weaker sex" as if their approach would be

    profanation . In how many country churches do we see the wife of the clergyman officiating as organist—and who ever dreamed of objecting to it as an unfit

    occup ( and poor ation pay for it a lad is in y ? most and cases yet , where , ) there the are same many office parishes is undertaken where women for p are ay , deliberatel I know nothing y excluded of the from concerns competition of the . parish of West Hackney except the

    following u Organist advertisement wanted for , the which Parish I quote Church from of the West Times Hackney . . —The duties day will be Good morning Friday , afternoon on Thursday , and evening evenings attendance and on publi on Sundays c festival , s Christmas and fasts - .

    The , organist will , be required to give instruction , in psalmody to the school children attending the church . The committee reserve to themselves , under professional advice , the right of making the selection among the candidates .

    W Salary est Hackney , . £ 40 per , not annum later . than App lications 25 th of to June be sent . La dies the are not eligible" ,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 284, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/68/