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    TUITION OR TRADE ? 181

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    deprecated This is a splid , as it enoug temp h ts reason cunning for ' at men leas to t givin deceive g thein and a undertake knowle rob them dge it *

    of businesseven where it is not necessary for them to , as That a vocation women . be expected to be injured by greater

    intermay cours On e the with contrary society , from and _exj extended > _erience knowled of life we ge of _dispute life , they . would have thened

    their thus gaining minds enlarge force of d , and character their powers to withstand of observation the dangers streng by which ,

    the they writer are now beset it is ; then and if decidedl their moral their nature absence be from as influential public life as is y

    the a misfortune labor says market to society or , the at question large . But of , money apart - from making their we benefiting advocate

    work for women , on other and even more important , grounds . Womenas well as men , require occupation in order to maintain in

    health the work same , , but bod , time emp y , min loyment admits d , and of for soul leisure rational . , Not as purposes opposed frivolous ; to , emp use the l loyment ess " grinding , make which -believe toil , at "

    which wears down , the body , stultifies the brain , and almost extinthat of guishe the to entire s prevent the divine human insanity li being ght within occupation , nay , . to go To is a preserve step in many farther the cases , health it may _absolutel y be condition asserted y de s -

    manded are insan ; and not that perhaps many , to women the , degree from , this of being lack of sent active , to a exertion lunatic ,

    constitutes asylum or , p the laced sane under state restraint of a human , but yet insane immortal as comp _beings ared with what to attain the

    The masswhether male or female , have no desire author degree . of Contemp " mental , lation elevation , thoug 77 so ht earnestl , persevering y urged stud constitutions by y the of enli any g branch htened of the

    of knowledge , does not appear to agree with the pared many leasure . to The loving see " our olog than ies women they " present now become are no or attractions more our fair luxuriousl energetic ; therefore y frivolous irls , unless sink pre into and

    wan p . spiritless - invalids , other fields , of labor , must be g found . "We must give up our worn-out ideas of home and household duties of being

    the end and aim of their existence , when , from the progress maindeed terial science We , are home not occupation speaking of is the compassed wives or daug within hters narrow of laborers limits ,

    . but of middle-class women . The lower orders are compelled , from necessity , to work either at home or abroad . No parallel can

    be drawn , because had all the women of the middle class as her much children to do as and the poor herself laborer they ' s would wife , in find attending themselves to her pretty husband hard ,

    , , remarks worked , and l for to them households no other where employment there are could be - wanted dau . hter Our s grownup g ,

    who , unless app servants y were discharged , could not make for themselves occupation To avoid , even misconstruction were it divided into let it infinitesimal be distinctl portions understood . that y

    we maintain any the propriety of women , who have homes and positive ,

    Tuition Or Trade ? 181

    TUITION OR TRADE ? 181

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1860, page 181, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051860/page/37/