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    WHAT CAN EDUCATED WOMEN DO? 293

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    fairly iii their own minds . Is marriage a business relation , or is it not a business relation ; or is itas most people in the depth

    of their hearts consider it , a judicious , mixture of the two ? "Whichever way you decide you are on the horns of a dilemma .

    If it is in ever so small a degree a business , then , the French father is quite right to take rigorous care that his daughter

    be honestly provided with her share of capital , and he is quite riht also to try and choose a respectable partner who will not

    waste g that capital and bring the firm to bankruptcy . If , on the other handit is not a business in ever so small a degree , then you

    must make , women " independent factors , " so that they may not be tempted to go to the altar for the bread that perisheth .

    I am quite aware that there is a third suggestion lying on the debatable ground between the two theories . It is this , that every

    woman ' s power of household management is her natural capital ; that if her husband brings the money and she brings the domestic work ,

    she contributes her fair share to a firm which is partly spiritual , partly material ; that God himself created this allotment , and that

    it is the real theory of marriage . I mean to allow immense weight to this suggestion , because it is

    not eminentl to be y the true actual for the bread lower -winner classes . _^ , where I also the think married it oug woman ht to be oug true ht

    passing emp * lo Althoug yment " , that h for no not women wise strictl thinkers , y are incidental satisfied , however to with the anxious the subject state , to of I should things extend like among the to spheres observe the work in ot - *

    respons and ing this classes ible on duty the _wliich p to lain temp another and ts simp the human le mothers prin being cip of le and that families to a society person away at from who large undertakes their , is bound homes to a ;

    meas external would f ulfil it . be d occupation b It very is the a same m -wholesome atter which standard of moral if a . mother it honesty A were great can so , rather singer judged undertake than an . artist The of oug v sentiment or arious ht lik e degrees wise th , and t who o be of it

    keeps good servants y may righteously afford the number , of , hours necessary , to fulfil there her are innumerable profession , , without excellent any women sacrifice who of have the welfare combined of her these children avocations , and classwhere the

    mo and ther duties is also with nurse irreproachable and house- exactitude servantwhere ; but all in the the cleanliness working , and comfort of a home depend on her actual , and constant superintendence , economy , her , The

    abfri senc ghtful e at an mortality y trade is _among as bad children in a mone who y as are in left a m to the l point care of of youthful view . inefficient nurses , the accidents by B . _ve and water with and the dang mother * erous absence falls ,

    suffiwas cientl told y indicat the othe e the r day sanitary of an evils abominable connected practice occasionall ' y s pursued . by I bit ignorant of moth which ers when had leaving been previo their children _usldijpped for in the some day ; narcotic namely , into tying an a

    infant ' s sponge moutli for it to suck I A very certain y method of keeping the poor it little is insisted thing quiet b during those its who hours have most of loneliness thoroughl . As studied regards the economy lication ,

    sence of working from home men upon ' s causes wages y an , that actual if the loss husband for which is in her full y earnings work , the by app wife no mean ' s ab- s

    nagement compensate to believe , is _; in actuall this other y but words more even than that if the the ib , were " " penny penny not tr saved gained uethe " " in moral b her y her household disorganisation labor . It ma is - easy

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    What Can Educated Women Do? 293

    WHAT CAN EDUCATED WOMEN DO ? 293

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 293, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/5/