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EMPLOYMENT Gi 1 WOMEN, 393
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life , and merely have to superintend others . After referring to many occupationswhere a knowledge of accounts was essentialj
, and after soirie allusions to watchmaking-, shoet > iiidingy etc ., Mr . Mackenzie read the following * paper by Miss _Bouclierett .:
—il We were told the . other night at the Conversazione for the _Needle-London women ' s get Institution their livelihood , that by no ne less edlework than b forty of soine -three sort thousand or other the . women Of these in ;
some can only earn four-pence a day , "y working from five in morning crowded till ; " ei The ght reason and at ni ill ght - wh paid . y such profession a large Is number made of arent women b rush the remarks into this of over the
these numerous story usuall persons app y told licants belong is that for to emp a they class loyment have decidedl lived at the y at app above office home of the with our y laboring their society parents . poor Many . since The of father
death asked they can left has of read what school reduced write emp , engaged them loyment and to sew in the they no necessity but particular are cannot capable of providing earn occupation ? they for generall h , b until themselves their y their answer needles . When that to ' s _, they enougy
live upon . If , asked , whether , there is anything else they can do ? the usual living onl rep y ly it is will must 'No soon be , but something be I exhausted shall that be g / can lad Of be to course learnt learn anything very it is q seldom uickl : I y , do possible as not ray care mean to what assist s of ,
A these few poor who creatures wrote a , good as no hand remunerative have been emp , admitted loyment can into be the learnt law- quickl copying y . class , but , generally we have been unable to help them , and they now , pro the
bably , either swell the crowd of needlewomen , or have taken refuge in workhouse . " But the secret of the great destitution too of i women when too ill left to ht their to own
their resources bread , is by thus any disclosed occupation , — that they requires are _gnorant intelligence , or - a taug knowledge earn of business . Yet no little time and a certain amount of money have seminaries probably
been where spent the instruction on their education iven is . of They a most have superficial been sent to character ladies' , but where , painting they are and taug fancy ht accomp g rk lishments for this , is such the kind as play of ing educatio on the n that piano is popul , flower ar .
The girls , are amused wo by learning ; these _^ things , and the parents have a vague they notion fear that that their daughters more useful ' minds kind are of thus instruction refined and would elevated have . a contrary Perhaps
a to effect enable ; at them any rate 'to , their learn object arid labor in sending truly to their get daug their hters own to living school " , and is not do their duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God ch to will call be them of . '
use Their to earl them y ye in ar future s are life therefore . If they spent marry in learning tradesmen thing , s they whi will not be able no _h said to andicraft keep that their such by husband which education they ' s accounts can is maintain ; no if training they themselves remain for the sing , for responsible le , it they need have scarcel -work no art y of be or a
an educated governess " The contrast . womenis between very , great the . wages Fifteen earned , shillings by tolerabl a week y weil is the and lowest
illalthoiig or rate eve of n h forty remuneration pounds of , the a tradesmen for year saleswomen , besides who , board and loy many and them lodg earn ing twenty lain . And that , thirty this they , ,
experience some inconvenience from the slowness emp with which , comp the girls calculate when "It they is probable first enter , that upon if be g their irls were situations better almost . educated indefinitel , the number of would women be
more employed and in more shop used s mig if ht found "multiplied well qualified . The same y , kind as they of teaching ¦ ' ¦ . ¦ _' . iw- • • ' ¦ ¦ ¦ • " ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ' < ¦ . • ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ '¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' 2 c • ¦ •¦ vpv . .
Employment Gi 1 Women, 393
EMPLOYMENT Gi WOMEN , 393
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 393, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/33/
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