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    425 NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    are the most influential instructors of the next—not merely tliat , while we u & er i are occupied with a thousand employments , that is exercised take us away continuousl from our

    homes and at that and period our children of life , when the influence impressions of woman are most easily received . __ This y is , not all . The influence is continuous _oyer the men themselves social machine . It is If

    exerquestion for cised Social , whether in Science the felt whole or it not is world the , at is inquiry each suitable par into t for of the the the whole consideration kind of education of an Association which . any our

    women receive in their , girlhood . " chanics Mrs . ' Fanny Institutes Hertz for contributes Working Women a most , interesting with special paper reference " On to Me the

    manufacturing Thipoints districts out of the Yorkshire nmltitude . " of evils in such a community

    as Bradford s paper where the women of the working class are factory operativesas traceable , to the low standard of female education . Absence

    in of cultivation stamin , a from may long be continued read in the _disobedience low type of to the h population ysiological wanting laws , in

    p of the both numbers men of and neglected women unhealth in cheerless y children comfortless , in the coarse homes manners , _^ badly

    cooked meals , ill-managed , expenditure , and in intemperance caused tion by the of superior manufacturing attractions towns of , such the public as Bradford -house . , has The much female in common

    populawith artizansand mechanics' institutes seem the agencies best fitted The to give princi the p se le , working on which women these institutions the first impulse are conducted toward recommends self-culture .

    them to the independence which forms a striking feature in the character of these mill girls , and the success which has attended the female institutes of Bradford and Huddersfield shows that they are

    ¦ willing to take advantage of the opportunity offered . The Rev . J . P . Norris contributes a valuable paper " On Girls '

    Industrial Training , " which we shall pass over for the present , as we , have not the requisite s ' pace which it demands .

    In the Public Health Department we notice an interesting paper V On the Physical Effects of Diminished Labor . " Mr . Baker goes

    back to the time before the Factory Acts were passed for proof of the fact that the long hours of factory labor then almost universal , were

    the cause of deformity and disease , preparatory to showing the effects produced by the working of these Acts .

    females emp " loyed There compared in are factories at present with , comp in 167 the ared 696 kingdom with and 354 , " 46 , 684 says 071 in Mr children 1835 . Baker : of between , these " 682 , , 517 387 8 , and persons 826 are 1 $

    years of , age , as compared with , ; 56 , 455 ; , yet all the diseases which were scarcel specific to see factory a case labor of in in -knee 1832 ; have occasionall as nearl y y one as of possible curvature disappeared of the . spine We , y

    arising more from labor with poor food than from labor specifically . The to factory remind leg us is of no the more fearful among past us and , except of its an contrast old man with . or woman the more , limps rational by ,

    and social present . " The above statement is the result of inquiries made by Mr . Baker

    for the compilation of this paper , and responded to by the certifying

    yoL , iv . 2 c *

    425 Notices Of Books.

    425 NOTICES OF BOOKS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1860, page 425, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021860/page/65/