The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-09 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 9.

IT is encouraging to see bow the speakers on
the subject of the Employment of Women, at the
recent meeting of the Society, auccessivela
applied themselves to the essential point of the
whole case—that of qualification for employments.
The time is past now for petulant complaint of the
hardship of women being unemployed or underpaid,
as if the fault rested with the employing and
paying party. The bad training, or want of
training, of the women, is the one fatal mis-
chief. It is this which dooms so many to starva-
tion, which renders it so difficult for the well-
qualified to win their way against general prepos-
session, which almost justifies prevalent preju-
diem, and which therefore indicates the course to
be pursued. As Lord SHAFTESBURY observed,
the necessity of training women to their work is
quite as great in the lower as in the middle and
upper classes. Cooks, and housemaids, and
sempstresses are as little fitted to do work which
deserves good pay as the majority of governesses.
From this it follows that, excellent and beneficent
in their way as are such societies as that of
which the Report was read on Friday, and such
schools and offices as Miss Boocazirrrr's school,
and the printing and law-copying offices, they can
do little towards ameliorating the condition of
poverty-stricken women till parents do their
domestic duty better than they seem at all inclined
to do at present. As the report related, the
other day, the demand for employment which re-
quires no previous training, " easy " occupation, is
beyond all management ; and on the other hand,
we know from Miss NIGHTINGALE'S latest edition
of her " Notes on Nursing," and from every other
chief of any department of female labour, that
there is, now and always, a pressing demand for
labour and service which is not to be had. Well
may these chiefs of female industry turn away with
disgust from lamentations over the want of a field
for the industrial employment of women when they
themselves are inviting women to come and work for
good wages, and can get none worthy of the
hire ! Miss NIGHTINGALE declares, on her own
part, that within three years she bad received
" several hundreds of applications " to recommend
qualified matrons or superintendents of ina.itu-
tiona, and nurses, for public institutions or private
practice ; and the women were nowhere to be
found. There is little use in urging the opening
of new branches of employment while the public
can point to the existing neglect of the special
functions of industrial women. By all accounts,
the case of domestic service is as bad as the
nursing department. In the National Schools,
there is loud and incessant complaint of the un-
fitness of female teachers for their business. These
facts are admitted and duly dwelt upon in the
societies which have risen up to help the very
large class of hunger-bitten women who are one of
the reproaches and perplexities of our time.
The Report read on Friday urges upon
parents the duty of not only provid-
ing a more careful early education for
their daughters, but endowing them with
a training to some special occupation which might
put independence within their reach, and Mr.
KINNAIRD moved a resolution on the duty of
parents as to education, in this view. Lord
SBA rrcezurzY also explained that one way in which
the society worked was by urging it on the clergy
of all denominations to rouse parents to do this
justice to their female children. If this can be
done with any considerable effect, the grand diffi-
culty will have been overcome, and our country-
women will have a clear prospect of doing well for
themselves, without any championship on our
part. There is plenty of demand for genuine
ability in all times and nations, and in all stages of
civilization.

But how far we are from any realization
of this prospect, any one of us need only
sound the circle of his own accinsintanoes
to lee. How many fathers do we observe
providing the best attainable teaching for
their little daughters, because they ought to pro-
vide it at any sacrifice to themselves! How many
mothers are them who make it their business to
train their little girls to do in the beet possible
ways whatever they attempt! and who are them-
selves qualified to train novices in household arts,
from dusting the china to nursing the sick I How
many fathers do we know who do not recoil from
the very mention of professional pursuit or high
and clear attainment of any sort for their
daughters! D 0 we not see them haggling (per-
sonally or through their wives) with the managers