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    THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN FKANCE. 95

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    the they same prepare class girls' On infinitel leaving y better 1 school for a French life than girl Eng can lish write schools a good of

    . letter without many faults of spelling or grammar , is a good arithmeticianand is in fact about as well educated as her brother of the

    same lish age , school . She -irl does but not she learn is better so many instructed accomp in lishments a few branches as an . Eng g

    All tlie teachers in , the schools for young ladies , which in England should call private establishmentshave gone through public

    we , examinations and received diplomas from government . The girls when they are turned out are soon able to take situations in many

    women department as cashiers s of business and book : in -keepers the large than sliops young there men are . more Soine young of the

    heads of these establishments to whom we have spoken assure us that they would rather give higher wages to women , preferring in

    them to men as steadier and more trustworthy , particularly large shops where there are a their great work many customers universal , as is they the practice are not so of

    almost easil employ y distracted ing all the women large from in towns the shops of France as . saleswomen it So would be and difficult clerks to , that enter in a

    women shop where are to there be seen are onl in y the men shops employed of milliners ; the gr , e hairdressers atest number , and of

    drapers . Many French women , both widows and single , manage large concerns as jewellers and money-changers . The government

    erakinds tapestry ploys of a , great and private in number the manufactories tobacco of women manufactories as in in Eng the land manufacture : we and find in women some of Gobelin special in all

    , ones , such as the polishing of glass , * ' etc . At Roubaix , which is a large manufacturing town , the custom of employing women as clerks

    is quite universal . The merchants of this place prefer to make their wives strangers One , of daug , the and hters princi it is , sisters foun pal professions d , to and answer other for perfectl relation women y s well is clerks that . , to of emp midwifery loying

    and physicians to women . In every large town there are a great of these women-doctorswho hold diplomas and take a certain

    many social rank , though not that , of the female physicians of America . Two ladiesMesdames la Chappelle and Boivin , have acquired a

    great reputation , and a high social standing in this "branch of medicinethey are consulted in their _speczalzte by the most

    celebrated ph ; ysicians of Paris , and the books they have written are used as text-books and cited as authorities .

    It is not our purpose to draw attention to the vast numbers of women loyed as dancerssingersactresses , painters , writers ,

    emp , , etc ., although many of them enjoy great and well-merited reputations , because in England there are exactly parallel classes of women .

    The large class of private governesses in France is more esteemed than in England , the women entering it being fewer in number and

    a most * Women laborious are also and emp injurious loyed in occupation England it in is the . — p Eds olishing . E . W of . J p . late glass , and

    The Position Of Women In Fkance. 95

    THE POSITION OF _WOMEN IN FKANCE . 95

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1860, page 95, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041860/page/23/