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    326 woman's woek in the world's clothing...

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    that Lad no other means been found of overcoming the difficulty _? it is probable foreign aid would soon have been invoked , and

    a broad ur flax . and This wool would and hav co e tton been been a serious importe evil d read to y the spun sex from for however desirable that thshould be enerallemancipated ,

    from the wheel as a household ey occupation g , it y was yet most important that it should remain to themas a secial profession

    so long as it remained at allsince with , all its p disadvantages , it at least afforded them the , means of obtaining a livelihood

    and had the English spinster been able in any measure to hold ; her round under such circumstancesthe value of her labour

    woul g d at least have been much diminished , by competition with foreigners .

    than But hel help for was at hand at this crisis to be of evo her ked fate whi , and sh more ould not only p remove , all power fear of this menaced diversion of profitable

    a the labour co simp -operation , bu lest t s and hou with l most d also the mindless e strongest levate of the p elemental rocesses labour raise it forces self it , t o and become fro the m

    deepest This gran scientifi d result c skill was . however but gradually attained . The

    first fibrous thread ever drawn out without the aid of human fingers was spun in 1738 by a piece of' mechanism for which

    after a patent set up was at taken Birming out ham by , its Mr . operations Wyatt , and being which superintended was soon

    found hy hy t a like to be number a so dozen inferior g of irls asses to , while that : the made the yarn motive by produced hand power that "was was it , however proved supplie a d _^

    their complete ordinary failure ; wheels and , the girls ided had by to fall han back , ical again or asi upon nine

    greatl b afforded coadjutors substituting y facilitated b . y the Some revolving inven the years tion preliminary machinery after of carding ( in 1 for 748 preparation cy hand ) linders some imp , sli which lements of ght the hel at p fibre least and was ,

    about y 1764 the great " Jenny" made her first appearance ; and proved lied the a deliverer of indeed the . inner This for simp thoug le machine h it was largel similar y multi in

    princi p ple to power the implement sp which , had been in use for so many centuriesinstead of onlone or two it had several dozen

    splindles , attachedwhich y were all set in motion by a single work turn The as of first twenty the idea wheel or of , , thirty thus the had " enabling Sp formerl inning one y Jenny accomp woman " lished , appears to . do as to much have

    h occurred appening to to one be Hi in g the hs , house a weaver of a of nei Lei ghbouring gh , in Lancashire fellow operative , who

    after one day a long , when and the fruitless son of the search latter for came a supp in , tired ly of and weft depressed , had his ,

    326 Woman's Woek In The World's Clothing...

    326 woman ' s woek in the world ' s clothing .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 326, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/38/