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    858 OPEN COUNCIL.

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    Ladies Most , heartily do I hope with yo...

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    Ladies, In Of A The Lad In Colony Y On E...

    fitted to render . She went out offering to teach " accomplishments , " refinementsthe elegancies of civilizationand found no demand for her talents at

    , , discovered first . So far herself from in finding a wilderness a field ; read there y for was her nothing to cultivat for her e , our to do governess , but to

    begin at the rudimentary processes , and actually undertake the elementary education of miners' children ! a county This she district was obli and ged entered to attempt on duties , and analogous with much to those reluctance of the , parish she settled school in

    mistress in the m , other country . a touching The letter case I refer . Wh to at , told had of she the gone strugg so le with far for which ? To this find was a done situation . It was she *

    would have scorned at home ! It was too bad ! The thing was intolerable I strong with So I thoug myself female ht , , whether and emigration so you it woul advocat thoug d not ht e , ladies be the well Eev ; and . to Charles communicat one of Kingsley your party e with and considered that let very him _,,

    see what sort of facts his theory about , expatriating women to find , homes in the Colonies was bringing about . sister Friends were spent known a great and loved deal of by sympath a large circle y on . this They lady belonged ' s behalf . to She the and class her of

    relatives gentry , were all their well lives connected had th , ey and been could so disposed have lived ; but in they dependance were not disposed on near to and do they this woul . They d be would useful work They ; th consulted ey would long earn and money anxiousl . They and were at length clever ,

    selected British Columbia . as their scene of labour . It was far off y , and expensive idea to reach . " The ; but cost they being were - so adventurous great , the risk , and of competition had the means must of be carry less , ing , " said out they their ,. _,

    and off they started , via New York and Panama , first class , on their important expedition Their very . first account was of failure , " Send no ladies here , " the } ' wrote

    " the It is onl onl y women fair th wanted at these are ladies servants should . " now add their experience to their impressions y ; and let the readers of the one have the benefit of the other .

    been Time attended has progressed with effects , and of with the sort it colonial that result society usuall ; and at home the operation and abroad has- . y , , in human social movements

    . now The to facts what broug they ht were up when to our they view sent concerning their wail those of discontent ladies are across quite different sea and in educated to

    landand told us we " were utterly wrong urging women , emi Mr grate . Kingsley . " is right ! and the Middle Class Female Emigration Society is _>

    right ! The maligned colony has found room even for the " lady " element in its The rough latest bosom intelli ! gence from these emigrants is , that one of them is on . the to

    better any eve of one -advised marriage from whom correspondents with a she gentleman might write have in from a had high Victoria an position offer to , here equal the ; effect , and if not , now that superior , botli at least our , <

    a few women of the highest class of attainments are in demand , and that , to most keep certainl up the y , stock some of of such this sort persons ought as now the means and then of maintaining to "be sent out the , in tone order of

    the upper circles in domestic matters , I remainLadiesfaithfullS . M . , , yours y ,

    858 Open Council.

    858 OPEN COUNCIL .

    Ladies Most , Heartily Do I Hope With Yo...

    Ladies Most , heartily do I hope with you , that some , indeed many , of your readers , may be induced to respond to the very excellent suggestions of F . C . concerning

    industri the association al enterprise of women . It , struck for the me purpose at the of time utilizin its use g the first sewing became machine general in ly

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 358, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/70/