On this page

• Text (1)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    TUITION Oil fRADE? 183

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    As Cate This The Emp Journal Loyment Is ...

    _'veterans in the field of battle . Neither need the question of wages " be entered upon let those . In process of who time these ¦ willing woul * to d work adjust ei themselves ther from ;

    the useful mean necessity while action of be obtaining sustained women subsistence and encouraged are , or from . When princi they ple , , shall or love have of

    frivolity attained will greater , self te - ) respect then their and influence dignity , will ( which deserve _ivork tlie and name not

    and " the it is to be da promo i hoped l will , be who more takes widel her y _t p aay erceived in trembl and ing along t , so that the , young y governess

    st tare reets and , " ( the words limen are t tha thos t e insul of our t her author help _* lessness ) " shrinking '' and o from thers the of

    s whom men comp tion is made _* need no longer dread our public , highways as if , to judge froin the , terror inspired , they were and infes kind ted by wild

    to animals It is in amazing Christendom , rather h than ow fondl . being Here y the the is eastern resort an enli of idea courteous htene of the d writer harem lo is okin protectors still g clung with . g

    complacency on the pitiful helplessness and weakness which cannot im walk pertinence or stand . Our without experience a guardian is somewhat to protect different it ordeals from from those insult who or

    live in constant apprehension of going through " " or encoun Any timentalitie tering spirited such g s irl or _" woes can impertinences . in , " all an instant wing to t put a morning case an end ma or y to afternoon be not b -wished y handin walk -for g .

    over sen their _" chivalric" admirers to , the care of the police , . These men privile are specie pa s id of to f annoyance pro protecting tect g - ir encountered l the s and sex w at omen large ; and as forget we if ll those as their who dut , y from claim why every then the

    call take in g the e o of paid themselves force . But and , be public tter far morality than thi will s , teach improve , women much to

    more rap care idly than by keep , ing _ixp the idea of " weakness " and imbecility . Were women wisely educated , as the author ably insis domesti ts they

    oug affairs ht to of be life , and as well were as the in y to their ming own le with homes men , ( in where the non by - the way c , ht

    men results are that seldom at seen present , ) their unhapp moral il and are sp no iritual t recognisable nature mi . g Not produce until

    then our friend will women ly disp , as utant a se , x from , reach whom th y hi we gh take position leave claimed with f thanks or them for Iby

    the and earnest onlregret and able that advocacy on the question of a hig of her the mental advantage training to f themselves or women ,

    and to y others by their employment in other pursuits than that of tuitionwe do not . Neither do we acquiesce in the dogma ,

    , agree if cramped ' _* That of ambiti thoug and on h depressed they women must are in s the tiile consc it ious , and circle le power ad a of life they duties of may acute to which not suffering use they it , ,

    narrow are confined . " God does not give power , gifts of mind or of soul , and at the same time forbid their use ; therefore it must ag _* ain t be

    repeated , that with whatever faculties women are endowed , hese faculties are given to be exercised .

    A . R . L .

    Tuition Oil Frade? 183

    TUITION Oil fRADE ? 183

• Citation
  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1860, page 183, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051860/page/39/