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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 339
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Again , we learn that seventy millions are annually expended upon intoxicating liquorsone-half of that large sum being contributed
, by the laboring poor , —which sum , if only legitimately employed , would contribute so much to the social amelioration of the working
classes as to mate actual poverty almost unknown . So , besides the thus set free to be spent upon other necessaries , a large
money quantity of grain hitherto employed in the manufacture of drink would be available for bread , and thus cheapen that article of food
by increasing the quantity brought to market : — The researches I made last into the subject of labor and wages
con" year vinced classes me to m there eet ever "was an demand abundance . Besides of money the fact circulating that the among enormous the destruc working - y
tion of the grain , intended by the kind Creator for good wholesome food , constantl £ 30000000 y kee is ps pent up the p what rice of bread loys , the it must least be rememb ible amount ered of tha labor t the . '
If . h this o , lsterers enormous , & s c sum ten upon were twelve expended and emp in amongst some cases ironmongers poss even sixteen , cabinetma shillings kers in ,
the up scarcel pound two would , shillings , be paid , in the for pound labor , , ; comes whereas to , the as lon , producer g as it goes Our for well drink -paid ,
ar uest tisan ion y s cou whethe ld them r the selves numerous become class suc be h low em them ployers cou of ld p labor ossibl . , y that supp ly is the
q requirement " We do not . expect that the universal should adop have tion sin of T still emp in eran the ce world princip les
would consequentl bring y about sorrow a , millennium but anyth — in we g like the present state of of things the children — , the
150 , 000 families living in dens worse than sewers ' —so many together of ould drunken be of trul all parents ages disgrace and burnt sexes and or —the scalded reproach squalor to to , death the filth heathen every , the wretchedness year countr —the would huddling , which be
utterl w siht y we unknown re no y a obli amongst terated b us the . a A constant sober presence peop any le , w of hos alcohol e taste in , y the smel , system l , and ,
_coiild g , notand would not endure y such a state of things for a day . " , With other reformersMrs . Bayly seems fully impressed with the
necessity of supplanting , public-houses by some kind of building appropriated to social meetingswhere workmen may meet after
of a hard the domestic day ' s wor hearth k , read is the beautiful paper , , and in theory have their , but chat not . in The its reality charm ,
when represented by a small ill-ventilated apartment with the accompaniments of squalling children and wet linen hanging to dry
on all sides . Others , again , who are employed in sedentary pursuits feel the want of relaxation : —
" These men have to sit all day , often in a miserable stooping position , breathing the air of an over-crowded room , and , in many cases , scarcel that y ever
wives free often from have become the - told noise painfull me of that y fretful if irritable they children could and . not desponding The get effect some ; drink of so all much for this their so is , , husbands that they the aid to It is
there was ' hardly any living with them . ' One woman sme , ' stay only at for home the fe of ar an of evening the public ; for -house it would that be makes the blessedest me try to to thing 'tice freshen that my himself man could to
that be up on , , my both without whilst mind for doors . getting him How and are , into in thrown me the , mischief too name , if . he ' of This at could common the obs go corners ervation somewhere humanity of made almost , has a deep it every come impressi . street to pass , on to open
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Notices Of Books. 339
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 339
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 339, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/51/
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