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Rh The remedy is equally necessary for the help of institutions and for women.

I would suggest, therefore, that there should be a Training or Deaconess institution, or Parish House, or House of Charity, in every district or large parish, which would form a centre for all works of benevolence in that parish or district. In it there would be residents, or constant workers, as well as another class consisting of associates, or assistants, who should not live in the house, but attend for a few hours daily, as their parents or other relations could spare them. There would be an opportunity of learning all the useful arts of life, useful equally for the future wife and mother, as for the parish helper or assistant in an institution. In the house there would be teaching in cookery, needlework, keeping of stores, accounts, and all domestic occupations, besides visiting the poor at their own homes, under the care