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    OPEN COUNCIL. 357

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    To the Editor of the English Woman's Jou...

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    To The Editor Of The English Woman 9 S J...

    payments cooks could , and go the out profits and give of dinners lessons , etc to ., ignorant supplied marrie by them d . ladies Also , young and coul lad d y

    suggest officiate this or superintend plan and assist to in assist getting ladies it carried on " comp out any ? days . " Cannot you colonies Another of all scheme female I am occupations most anxious and homes to see for adopted receivin is g , a young registry ladies for out tlie

    ment there , , or where of marry they ing would respectabl "be protected y if they and prefer put in it the . In way the of colonies getting there employ is - . gentlemen obvious an immense . Make demand will it _respectable for save women our for , and young here men ladies we settlers have to go from too out many degenerating as well . . The as cure young into is

    savages from , you the want of civilised young women to associate with , and you will save the poor English mothers out there from being _ojDpressed with unaided

    . cares If any and lad labors y "will .. join My husb in carry and endorses ing out either my opinion of these . suggestions , she is requested to communicate bletter with E . F . English Woman ' s Journal

    Office , 19 , Langhani Place , Regent y Street . ,

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    Open Council. 357

    OPEN _COUNCIL . 357

    To The Editor Of The English Woman's Jou...

    To the Editor of the English Woman _' s Journal .

    _Maid-Servants' "Wagkes . Madam , frequentl decided The . question y It been is however discussed whether an important maid in yo - ur servants . p point ages , receive but because never good if seems they wages are to or have well not paid , been has

    and there is yet a scarcity of them , it would , appear that there cannot be , is a great rather want a vague of emp term loyment , but I among suppose women it to of mean the lower that they classes can . generall " Grood , y "

    earn enough to dress themselves neatly and provide for their old age . Let us see how far this is the case . If a woman receives fourteen pounds a thirty year , she can sthese dress savings for six and will lay amount by eight to . two If hundred she continue and forty in service pounds for .

    This sum year invested , in a mortgage at four per cent will produce nine pounds " ten binquiry shillings that a if year sold , which for an is annuity not enoug to h a life to live assurance on ; but office I have it will ascertained produce ,

    ei y ghteen pounds , ten shilling's , supposing the woman to be fifty-five years old , tain ! N " ow her a shilling comfortabl a day , is thoug yet h sufficient not more for than the is required purpose . to pay We rent may and conclude

    maintherefore that a servant y , who receives fourteen pounds a year can provide for lier old age if she meets with no long illnesses or extraordinary ill luck to prevent her .

    But is not fourteen pounds a year higher wages than is usually given ? whom TJpper a housemaids considerable in degree large of families skill or receive intelli it gence , and is cooks required and receive others muck from

    of more whom , but the the great ordinary majority run of of maid respe - ctable servants , hard consist -working , do , not not get clever more women than , ten That or is twelve to they pounds receive a le year & than ; at will least enable such them has been to provide rny observation for their .

    old age-supposing say , 1 them to exercise s the utmost economy - and self-denial . If my , calculation be wrong , if I have understated the usual rate of

    be wages obtained , or if , I there hope be some some one other who understands investment b the y which subject hi will gher set interest me right can ; but if my calculation be correctI trust it will be conceded that

    maidservants as a body are underpaid . , Yours faithfully ,

    J _* B .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 357, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/69/