But it would seem as if it
did not occur to us that we must also supplement the person in charge of
sick or of children, whether under an occasional eclipse or during a
regular absence.
In institutions where many lives would be lost and the effect of such
want of management would be terrible and patent, there is less of it
than in the private house.[14]
But in both, let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her
head (_not_, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I
provide for this right thing to be always done?
Then, when anything wrong has actually happened in consequence of her
absence, which absence we will suppose to have been quite right, let her
question still be (_not_, how can I provide against any more of such
absences? which is neither possible nor desirable, but) how can I
provide against any thing wrong arising out of my absence?
[Sidenote: What it is to be "in charge."]
How few men, or even women, understand, either in great or in little
things, what it is the being "in charge"--I mean, know how to carry out
a "charge.
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