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LVII.—WORK AND WAGES OF WOMEN IN
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»— The world seems now astir. Many are l...
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Lvii.—Work And Wages Of Women In
_LVII . —WORK AND WAGES OF WOMEN IN FRANCE .
»— The World Seems Now Astir. Many Are L...
_»— The world seems now astir . Many are looking , not on their own
things , but on the things of others , and longing to do something to help on the time , when " all men's good " shall
" Be each man ' s rule , and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land , And like a lane of beams athwart the sea
, Through all the circle of the golden year . " One way in which the desire to help others shows itselfis in
, the attention bestowed on the subject which heads this paper . We are getting discontented with things as they are . We
donot like to know that it is " ! N _" ot linen "we ' re wearing out
But human creatures' lives . " , Discontent of this sort is discontent of the right sortand of the
, only sort that can be tolerated at the beginning of a New Year . It is discontent with a hope in it ; the hope that the things now
complained of are about to be altered . The voice , that rings through our own land finds its echo , or
rather awakens other voices , elsewhere , which join with it in wailing forth the Miserere which rises up , faint and feeble as a
helpless infant ' s cry , from the toiling suffering ones in the many garrets and cellars of " merrie England . " That cry is not the
Miserere of England alone : let our neighbours tell us their story . Francewhence come so many little articles of luxury , seems to
give much , varied employment to women . They are lacemakers , loversfeather makersartificial-flower
makerslapidariesstrawworkers g , confectioners , ci , gar makers , sorters and , folders of , writing , ildersworkers in bronze & c . & c . Their pay in every one
paper of these , g departments , of industry , varies from Is . to Is . 6 d . a day . The artificial-flower makers alone get high payand the clever
, ones amongst them , who have a just claim to the title of artistes , may earn from 2 s . to 3 s . a day .
All theso professions have their own districts ; a home , so to speakto each callinground which the workers in each several
trade , gather , just as with , us here in England . But there are two callings which are found everywhere , as they are necessary
everywhere , i . e ., the washerwomen and needlewomen . In France there maybe said to be a '' Guild" of washerwomen , who claim for
themselves a kind of royal precedence . Every year they keep holiday on Mid-Lent Thursday , when they elect a Queen from
among the number , to a dignity as important as it is ephemeral . Hundreds of cabs convey all the " ironers" of the community ,
dressed in holiday garb , to Paris , accompanied by hundreds of
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1863, page 317, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011863/page/29/
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