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    180 TUITION OR TKADE?

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    teaching only those 1 , and to hav come e by forward thorough as training candidates 1 prep who ared feel themselves a vocation for it for . "

    In this , society would be a gainer by an improved system of education , and many women would be made happier in consequence

    of entering into pursuits more congenial with their dispositions . "Where pleasure is _foxmd in an occupation , labor is lightened and

    temper sweetened : whereas , when the employment is not in harmony with the nature"work and workwoman alike suffer ; the

    work is ill done and the , worker becomes soured and dispirited . A common objection urged against women entering trade is , that

    they have no capital to begin business for themselves . Were it the custom to bring up daughters to work , as fathers

    bring up their sons , we presume capital if wanted could be found for the one as readily as for the othertherefore this objection is

    , not worth consideration at present . The author refers with much anxiety to what women must do in

    order to follow out successfully professional life ; but as yet we are not arrived at thisexcept in the cases of female artists or musicians ,

    and even the former , are only knocking at the doors for entrance into the temple , and the latter are still visited with a breath of the cold

    blast turned upon the handmaidens of public amusement . " "Women require a moral motive for much exertion , " says the

    writer under review , " while to the more naturally active man a hundred worldly objects are sufficient . " We doubt whether the

    compliment intended for the one sex is truly due to them , since we are of opinion that whatever fundamental differences exist between the

    sexes have been by position and training injuriously exaggerated . But without dwelling upon this , it may be asked why should women

    not accomplish as much through the higher motive as men effect through the lower ? And if this higher moral feeling be natural to

    "women , may we not expect to see it in the many instead of the few ; and consequently that numbers of "women upheld by this strong

    motive power would enter into , and succeed in , even the most arduous professions . Moreover , if society in the aggregate will not ascend

    to the elevated _platform where this writer would have women rest in wisdom and virtue , would it not be well were they to descend

    and move about among their brethren in the busy highways of life , even were they to be seen in " lawyers' offices ox on the

    stockexchange , " as the writer seems to dread they may be some day . That day is as yet far distant ; neverthelesswere "women capable of

    transacting business , which is all that at , present the phrase can implyfewer of the sex would be victimised and reduced to penury

    , by heart-breaking speculators or unscrupulous lawyers . Truly a portion of the moral force so much insisted upon as peculiar to , and

    inherent in the sex , could not be more wholesomely employed than in seeking * to purify the atmosphere of our money-changers , and in

    lessening by _their , influence the cases of fraud and swindling of late ho nuniorous . The childish ignorance in which women are generally

    brought up with regard to pecuniary affairs , cannot be _siifnciently

    180 Tuition Or Tkade?

    180 TUITION OR TKADE ?

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1860, page 180, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051860/page/36/