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    66 NOTICES O3F BOOKS.

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    no in quotes the peop northern statistics le was it showing districts ever intended , the by fri consumption _ghtful by the mortality . wise In laws no produced land of nature and , especiall among that y

    hands women of should man . be M . subjected Michelet does to work not hesit solel ate y fit to to accuse "be don the e maj hy orit the y

    of his countrymen of selfishness , and he traces with much truth to and this ingenuity source . the great mass of the evils troubling French society

    prietor To return plays , howe in all ver business , to tke part transactions which the . wife In the of first the atelier lace pro she

    negotiates to obtain work , then actively engages in its p construction see , that and our finall friend y carries of the it home atelier to is a receive true Frenchman payment . We Althoug plainl h y

    . the malicious _frequently take exception to the -wife's course of facturers action , hinting their that clerks too and much the , fam female iliarity representatives often exists between of the manu work

    -, , - shops , the jealousy of the husbands does not seem able to overcome their decided taste for relief from business minutia . We are inclined to coincide almost entirel

    foundation mostly these . Both reports husband are y in merel and what wife y M mischievou . in Simon this says class s calumnies on this head _wanting , that welltodounless naturall are exceedingly

    is secured --, against consequentl dangers y , to which the y viciousl less fortunate y incline , d especiall , the wife y among single women , are exposed . After dwelling on the superiority

    of the Lyons silk , M . Simon informs us that the reason why that * bett 3 ity er has work continued , at current in a position prices , is to that supp labor ly the has market been with disseminated finer and in in the

    a great measure suburbs . As there exists now an evident happ manufactories tendency iness to of c the , entralize not working only labor does population in the the interest town demand , of hy trade workshops that , but this the spreading and greater large

    error should be nipped in the bud . Where the manufactory is not into there the is more hands moralit of married y ; and when sedentary the home work can be put ,

    children , and home do not women suffer . Could interests reform of tHe step husband in and , sweeping away the atelier systemrestore the and ,

    , men women of now the jointl open y engaged country , in trade the silk would manufactory to and the domestic free atmosp comfort here prosper

    the then return wage work to s the in of workman the women field , in 's ( home and agricultural it . is The well husband lab known or , ) , whilst says that M men the . Simon wi gain fe , could twice could

    set materiall manage their the y faces aiding weaving . against As in- a doors such matter , the a ben of cheap cours eficial rate e , , movem the of c atelier ountry entthey proprietors living being also

    from evident the losers great should towns it , occur and . spread In proposing it throughout to decentralize the , country weaving , we should should remark labor in that it is of the first importance that women alone

    time between field occupations silk manufactories and the loom , for when the discovery men divide has their been

    66 Notices O3f Books.

    66 _NOTICES O 3 _F BOOKS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1861, page 66, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091861/page/66/