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    IMPARTIALLY CONSIDERED. 83

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    Ibeen long If it should as well there done come is , work emi to grants b of e superfluous this and sort colonists to be they done alike will , they gratefull cease intend . y to dec persevere lare . So .

    In the meantimeit would be , a most serious error to regard their labours as in an , y way intended to encourage the idea , revolting

    to every feminine instinct , of seeking marriage , as a gambler seeks emp a prize haticall in y a lottery lare . , that Miss they Rye have and never her coad , by jutors word distinctl or deed y , held and t

    co b t out o een ncerned emi to grate any thou . t woman If th If suitable e any sanc , suggestion th t ion marriage pros , and pec of t against comes o the f marria sort in the an has g e emi is as been hes grant an , of made inducemen ' s the way , it ladies has let ;

    her accept . it and find honour and happiness and opportunities , of usefulness in it . But a true woman does not cease to be such when

    she crosses the seas . Hard work with honest independence , have been the only bait held out , and these have been found sufficiently

    Inviting Nor do . the promoters of female emigration look upon it as

    anything more than one among many means of improving the condition of women . The most effectual mode of helping women

    both at home and abroadis no doubt to remove all industria , l disabilities . On this point , some wise words have been spoken

    "by a man whose official position entitles him to a hearing . " It is notorious that a mason , a carpenter , or a smith , could the of the

    earn and did earn , in Australia , five times wages man most of accom real plished ability alumnus and ext of ensive an ancient information universit was y obli . Many ged to a

    _Iiire his services as a domestic or a farm labourer , and thought himself one of the comparativel mounted y happy police . in These driving facts a stage are coach proverbial or becoming . The

    same course would inevitably follow in the case of a wholesale of deportation situations of of educated the lowest women kind . They at would least until be obli they ged to had accept had *

    time to acquire a knowledge of the , better descriptions of agricultural labour . . . . Supposing it not impossible , however , that better raaidofall

    work an educated than an lad i y gnorant might , country in the end girl , , become surely this a is not the - onl - y - thing to be considered . If an educated woman be fitted for

    tunity the something wealth to emp better of loy the , it herself communit is folly at and it is , cruelty diminished if possible not . by to It g the ive is loss foll her y an , resultin b opp ecaus or g e -

    _ironi the waste of her faculties y misapplied ; it is cruelty to condemn hier to the drudgery of _prsedial servitude , which to do , with otherwise her orig than inal

    associations , she can scarcely be supposed detest . " But can it be avoided ? I maintain that it canand certainly

    we are bound to try . What is the natural solution of , the labourers difficulty to ?

    Not to relegate the so-called surplus of educated female

    Impartially Considered. 83

    IMPARTIALLY CONSIDERED . 83

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1862, page 83, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101862/page/11/