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    134 OPEN COUNCIIi.

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    To the Editor of the English Woman's Jou...

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    To the Editor of the English JVb?nan f s...

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    To The Editor Of The English Woman's Jou...

    us post the -office means and of railway honorable clerkships independence , secretaryshi , would ps , not etc ., overtax winch , while our in p the h affording ysical fullest or

    mental strength , or diminish-our claims to being ; considered sense of the word (/ _ew _^ e-womeii . I amdear Madam ,

    , Yours truly and gratefully , A Governess .

    February 21 st ? 1860 .

    134 Open Counciii.

    134 OPEN _COUNCIIi .

    To The Editor Of The English Woman's Jou...

    To the _Editor of the English Woman ' s Journal . Maid-Servants' "Wages .

    I must Madam own , that I did not reckon the compound interest in my calculation . masters I did not and forget mistresses it , hut supposed dismistheir that servants occasional when illnesses ill ) , visits ( and to not parents a few

    it and would intervals amount between to a greater their places sum s , th would an I imagined consume , and it . than I , see would , however probabl , that y , would be

    pounds thus be so emp spent would loyed . Let remain , and us we assume instead cannot that of well two on allow an hundred average less , then and one three forty pound , hundred according a year and to thirty my

    calculation . office I have that received offered ei information hteen pounds since ten my shillings last letter a on the life subject interest , that for two the

    that hundred reall and secure forty ones pounds g offer to no a mor woman e than aged sixteen fifty-five pounds year , is ten not shillings a safe one , which , and

    is at the rate y of seven per cent , interest . At the same rate then three hunor dred fifteen and pence thirty pounds a day , which would is bring three twent pence y more -three th pounds an is ab six solutel shillings y necessary a year , therefor

    that thirty to careful pay a years woman rent and , and self can who - secure deny save receives ing the enoug , have ordinary thirteen h no to prolonged provide comforts pounds for a illnesses of year her life , . old and , We is age remains never will , if out she in of be service p e very lace say assistance

    to for her more parents than a . short But time what , and numbers never of gives maid the -servants slightest do pecuniary not receive this get their necessary business thirteen than , but ten pounds good twelve stout a year young . Is How it women then many surprising of , not seven mere or that ei beg g situations ht inner and s learning twenty which ,

    no more or . offer ht a life after time ? And of hard is it work a circumstance , and an old to age be in lamented the workhouse that emp , are loyers not much who take soug advantage of the depressed state of female industry , to offer themselves middle aged with

    women such low wages , should find it difficult to provide good servants ? Yours faithfull y ,

    J . B .

    To The Editor Of The English Jvb?Nan F S...

    To the Editor of the English JVb _? nan s Journal , Madam ,

    The fears felt by the " Saturday Review , " of having the number of marriages plete control diminished little over property , her might property refuse be removed now when to , at get married once married if , every for because almost woman all they retained women know com th who at

    they possess at a once fall into a state of dependence which , is ungenial to the English _, character .

    the The day present of marriage system is of also taking injurious away to everything honorable from young a youn men , g for woman if they on

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1860, page 134, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041860/page/62/