The Archive · 1899

Women as Journalists

proved an interesting subject for dise ion. The Duchess of Sutherland occupied the chair and myad women to do their utmost to raise the tone of the papers on ed. There is journalism and journ said the fair chairwoman, one. true sister and helpmate of literature, the other distant and wholly unnecessary cousin, Tt was, she feared, tov often this latter which held out a bait to women to write in a slipshod fashion of cloth chiffons, and trivialities, but she would mind such that impertinence was personalities character studies.

AND INDUSTRIAL, pers were real isolation for women and children, the scientific treatment of domestic service, which introduced the vexed question of lady-helps and the general insufficiency of domestic servants. Miss Clementina Black read the opening paper, and said the chief reason for the in: difference of our servants was. the want of early training. They were taken from cutiely different' swroundings and it ften came as rear surprise to them to find that dit set of plates were required for each course and that during the day. As hospi nurses were trained sv should domestic servants be.

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