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    128 NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    Woman Lectures 'S Ri Delivered Ght To La...

    We have read these lectures carefully ; they review the topics with which we are accustomed to deal in our Journaland contain some

    , _interesting facts on the state of female employment in America which are quite new to us . It would seem as if , in the large cities

    of the Unionthe painful social _problems of the Old World are gradually rising , up on every hand . But the Americans have their and

    vast and fertile West to fall back upon , where land is cheap _inarriage easy ; where the house-father and the house-mother ought each to find their appropriate here with far more facility than

    amidst the struggles of an overcrowded sp civilisation . Surely America will profit by our warnings , and do her best , while yet there is time ,

    to avert from the female portion of her population those sufferings whi ive ch E ngland extract is now s from malmig the * book such earnest under our efforts notice to remove . Here . is We a

    p g icture of an energetic woman engaged in manufacture . " According to thy request , " writes a Quaker Sarah friend Scofield from Wilming fifteen ton ,

    Del ., _" I send thee some facts concerning . Ann . - Some ten years or sin twelve ce , her hundred father became dollars very ; having much , lost involved largelv in b debt y working . He owe for d cotton some indles and fliersHis

    and woollen mills . His business was making sp . him daug ; hter she , being then just the sixteen oldest , of proposed seven children to go into . He her accepted father ' s shop her offer and , assist and

    it told better me himself than , that man , in he twelve had ever months trained , she for could eihteen finish . more She earned work , and fifteen do dollars a , week any at the rate he then paid other hands and g went . Her father She died has . Her

    two two oldest younger brothers sisters learned in apprenticeshi the trade p , of and her a , brother fourteen away . years of now age , machinery all working . under I went her out ; turning to see her , poli last shing week , . filing She , was and then fitting making all kinds water of - also to make

    rams to kind force s of streams carri into -axles barns . She and is houses her own . dr She au is htsman beg inning d occasionally many can does but her try own at forg . ' ing She age . has To a use steam her -eng own ine words , every , ' part What g atisfaction of any which , man When she can under do they , I -

    have stands stead ; and y emp I know loyment that , they her clear work sixty gives dollars entire a s week ; and . she " says she money would . rather The truth work is at , it it is for a business her bread she , is than fond at of sewing . '' for ten times the

    And here are particulars of women engaged in commerce ; showing that they need not be governesses , if only they would have the energy

    to open up unusual paths , without fearing " loss of caste . " United " Let States us ask . , then Our , census a few questions is by no about means the so state comp of lete female as that labor of in Great the

    haps and Britain _'' . At few farther the ; female and close south our s of statements , the many Bevolution women as will clerks , conducting therefore , there were , be large because less in New business accurate we Eng were . establishments land still , and lish per- , employed , partly Eng ,

    and and their had not wives lost soon English learned habits to . carry Men on went the to business the war or upon the which Greneral not Court only , school the famil had y bread not yet , but begun the fate to fit of the nation for book , depended keepers ; and while clerks our common

    of '' the The s whole Island coun of try Nantucket . Great was destitution women , at the close existed - of the on war the , estab a good lishment . examp of le

    peace . The men began the whale fishery with redoubled energy : some

    128 Notices Of Books.

    128 NOTICES OF BOOKS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1860, page 128, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041860/page/56/