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    NOTES OF BYWAYS. 35

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    It Lias Been Remarked That, In Soine Res...

    some It would of tlie perhap blinds s look be best rather not dingy to note , nor matters can we too think particularly a mignonette , for Stillthe

    flowers box quite which appropriate are ranged whatever for on the the bleaching sooty else is sills appear of lected nightcaps in the . best not spirits , ,

    and Various give evidence sorts and that conditions of men neg have , agreed they are to live . in Salter _n s Buildings—laborersmechanicsclerkspetty tradesmen & c . ;

    and there are also gentlewomen , , ladies , , persons , and women , who have consented to reside among them . Our business leads us into clean

    one of the most uninviting of these dwellings , for scrupulous - more liness than is not fifty necessary years in to the Mrs midst . Josl of yn confusion ' s happiness , and . will She so has go on lived no

    justice emp doubt loye . to d the on A more unworthy end of active the objects chap being ter . never . Her Yet husb existed we an must d ; is and nor a do costernionger seldom the are good her energ woman , who less ies

    than has worked two pounds himself per to week the . top This of the worth wheel y man , possesses earns a kindly heartwhich rather unfortunately is overlaid with an extraordinary

    quantit hair , which y of flesh prefers . He to owns in a large tufts head on the crowned topleaving with strong the hinder grey

    part , bald- His features grow are peculiar , he is slig , htly awry , and has altogether the of having been done up in a hurry . He

    appearance appears readfor to his have lass dropped is undrained asleep to and -day his unawares ihas , ere fallen he was from quit his e ppe

    adorns chimney grasp y . , the - A iece garland ceiling g it settles . of There stockings on Mr is . dust , on Josl which yn everywhere ' s wing the like dust . ears has It rests accumulated it winks on the in

    the sunbeam p , and mischievously collects on the good , man ' s spectacles . It is , a pity to see that large tallow candle , leaning like to the it

    tower of Pisain the candlestick , which had evidently accorded a very warm , reception . And why on earth such an immense fire in the middle of the afternoonand on a sunny spring day ?

    I am inclined to think that Solomon , never met with a woman like MrsJoslHe has much to about womanbut nothing which

    seems . to yn imp . ly such an acquaintance say . She talked , incessantly , yet did not distract you , it was a sort of agreeable murmur , not seeming to

    demand any attention , so that you might engage in another conversation as comfortably as if in the neighborhood of some garrulous

    brook . These people had one daughter , an only child . Jemima worked

    at the banding of cap fronts , and had her machine iii a small back - parlor , where she also slept . She worked ten or twelve hours daily ,

    and earned about ten or twelve shillings per week , which , as her parents '" Young were peop well le must to do enjoy , was themselves all absorbed / 7 and in dress Jemima and enjoyed amusements her- .

    self accordingly . But she was delicate ; the doctor said it was the gas ; and as the machine _cotild not be worked without , the fond

    parents were in great perplexity .

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    Notes Of Byways. 35

    NOTES OF BYWAYS . 35

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 35, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/35/