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    PASSING EVENTS. 71

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    Overwork Of Women And Girls. To While A ...

    or a weekand then we should commence , as before , at night-work , going * home at seven in th , evening for one ht for hou refreshment r , and working It throug rather h the ni before ght . the We stop from

    { when twelve March we till _^ commenced Mh one _^)— in A quarter to be g so of busy a year , and of it suck has . toil been as was this ing !— on Ibid this , , p . 66 up , to No this new . 783 time yea , . r '

    Seddon " Elizab ' s , Brei eth ghtmet Edge Bleach . —• I works am fourteen ) ' four years years . of Three age . months I have worked since , I worked here' ( at ' ( Mr and . I slept course four she hours was the not first workin morning g alone , and upon not the at occasion all the ) ' next two ni nig ght hts . and I have two days very *

    often worked till twelve . —Ibid ., p . 49 , No . 491 . mit " If of there this be national any one ini thing quity which it is , the more fact than that another there is , adds notnor to the ever enor has

    been y even so much as a ' difficulty , , ' worthy of the name , to prevent , a stop being , put to all these terrible shames by just legislation .

    here ' Maey nearl Ann three Smith . —* . . Last Six Saturday times in I that was twelve time I years have worked old . * from * * six I in came the have m and worked orn I to cannot from rub y till iny six abide hal instep one f years -past sometimes morning every ago two ni in till . gh the t One six before next of the my I next ' can fingers ( twent morning get y my is hours gathering clogs ' ( twent and off , y fro a -four The half m . being hours sJcin ) * cracks Once . cut ) * by I I ,

    th _£ selvage , and the other is running . " —Ibid ,, p . 47 , No . 457 . it ' * Contemp nine late the old condition And it has of thi to s poor on child hour . after It has hour been day at work after since day

    the was skin of years its instep . still cracking and go festering , the selvage , still sawing , against its gathering , running sores . Woe to the nation that shall hear

    such things and will not raise its voice !—" Amelia oftt Wood in at ( fifteen five and next six Jul in y the . )— morning * I have been and at oft this enest work leave about off at three eleven years or .

    twelve We . enes * beg * ' * Sometimes we do not leave off , till three or four in the morning . My fingers are often very bad ; the cloth weaes them THBorraH . "— -Ibid ,, No . 158 .

    f c Think of itreader . It is the every-day complaint of suffering multitudes : — ,

    "' The friction of the piece , in hooking , cuts their fingers and makes them very sore ressi , their on as skins the being blood soft stai . ns * th Whose e pieces finger ; they is bleeding then have ? ' is to not have an their uncommon fingers tied

    exup p . '—Ibid ., p . 43 , No . 414 . " Sore feetlikewise—the natural consequence of standing so many hours ,

    and frequentl , y upon very , hot floors , —are very general , especially among the littl " ' e M g irls feet : — are almost Ankle alway bone s sore . ( No . 226 out . )—' Have had 273 the The aching skin legs' many off

    a and tim the e . ' y ( are No . very 228 . )— sore ' . ' ( No . 274 . was )— ' growing I have often . ' sore ( No feet . . ; . )— they ' bleed sometimes comes , , and and the my soles ankle of bone my feet has been are blood growing -raw out , ( , * No ( No . 279 . 277 . )— at . )— 'M bottom ' y The feet skin are and is often off blood very often -raw , ,

    Moth and they er puts pain some me stuff . ' ( No to . 281 them . )— that 'M makes y feet the blister new skin come / , ( No . 285 are . )— very ' I sore have . always ( No sore 536 feet )— in summer Feet often time . ' ( No . that 533 . )— the 'M shin y feet comes often off sore wit 7 winter i stockings and sum- .

    when ( mer N _" o . . ' 504 the . )— skin ' If . was you ' off coul rny d feet have so very so seen re badl my y / feet ( No last 492 . ni )— ght ' I / have ( No often . 491 my . had )— ' the Worked skin always off my fee sore t . ' in ( _NTo summer . 232 . )— : they ' Her were feet blood very - often raw at get bottom raw . ' ( and No . my 448 ankles . )— 'My are feet swelled were

    with a deal of pain / ( No . 463 . ) , hooks ' They . I ' have fall asleep to keep standing them awake to their ; and work my . heart They is fall so asleep sore for standing them that before I their

    canyears not speak , and to it them has always . I have been worked so in all at the bleach works -work where s , in the I have finishing been / -room ( No . , 402 twenty . )—

    Passing Events. 71

    PASSING EVENTS . 71

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 71, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/71/