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    Vol. X. October 1, 1862. No. 56.

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    XIV.—MIDDLE-CLASS FEMALE EMIGRATION

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    _ V Some years ago the fishermen of a sm...

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    The

    THE

    ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNAL

    PUBLISHED MONTHLY .

    Vol. X. October 1, 1862. No. 56.

    Vol . X . October 1 , 1862 . No . 56 .

    Xiv.—Middle-Class Female Emigration

    XIV . —MIDDLE-CLASS FEMALE _EMIGRATION IMPARTIALLY CONSIDERED . THE EMIGRATION OF EDUCATED WOMEN EXAMINED PROM A COIONIAL POINT OP VIEW . BY A LADY WHO HAS RESIDED ELEVEN YEARS IN ONE OF THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES . ——— _ . _^_ . _ _^ _a

    _ V Some Years Ago The Fishermen Of A Sm...

    _ V Some years ago the fishermen of a small village In the Isle of Man took so large a number of herrings that they knew not what to do

    with them . In the present day a steamer would have carried them off to Liverpooland they would have been easily disposed of .

    , But in those days there were no steamers , and in the whole island there was not salt enough to cure them , so the fishermen- carried

    them a little way out of the village and threw them down in a great heap . And the fine wholesome fishwhich might have fed

    , so many starving families , corrupted and sent forth a dreadful stench , and this caused a pestilence , so that numbers of the poor

    fishermen and of their wives and children fell ill and died . That which might have been a blessing became a curseand the largest

    , take of herrings is remembered only as a great misfortune . There are too many women in this country . Are they to become

    a curse instead of a blessing ? No , no ! a thousand times no ! If there are too many herethere is work for them somewhere in

    the world . There are homes , for them to bless in the east and in the westin the north and in the south ! Nature has not omitted

    , to prepare a place for every one of them ,. if we only knew how to penetrate her secrets and discover it . An able writer in the

    National Revieio has shown clearly by statistical facts that the surplus of women here is no more than the deficiency in the

    colonies and the United States . The question is how to balance the accounthow to transfer them from the place where they are

    not wanted , and where they may even become injurious , to the place where , they will be valued as they deserveand benefit instead

    , of injuring those around them . For people to be valued as they deserve , it is necessary that

    they should possess qualities , not merely good in themselves , but such as can be called into play and turned to use by their

    neigh-VOL . X . G

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1862, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101862/page/1/