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THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN. 407
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Patrons And Patronesses. Lord Andmiiiiia...
from the comprehensiveness of this register they have gained much valuable information for the futurechiefly as to the direction in
• which their efforts can be made most , available . Only in two directions have slight inroads been made upon departments of labor hairdresser has been intro
hitherto ducedand occup also ied waitresses by men . , — These a female have met with a fair amount of - encouragement neither , this ; but other it may society be can as well do more to remind than supp the ly public a demand that
and that m nor any any more women , would be employed as hairdressers , , . the preference shopwomen most disp for , & iriting c their , if circumstances ladies services would . In and but broug Edinburg untrained take ht the to h li trouble condition as ght elsewher by to the of express e working , one of of a
the of the reg licants ister . is Persons the incapable who instead of bringing distinct and many special do qualifications app and whoby for reason any one , of their situation very , unfitness come and for ask anything what they in par can
ticular , are full , y persuaded that they are adapted to fill situations of and trust that , and no responsibility special training . It to may any remunerative be said that this occupation is unavoidable can by ,
their any possibilit bread in y after be given life . to Let vast this numbers be adm who itted may ; it yet require remains to make true
that few women are so circumstanced that they cannot be made wanted capable . of Good some teachers one womanl , good y occupation matrons , : good heads housekeepers and hands are , dress alike - but rarel
makersand servantsfor these there may be difficulty y , , want of . Nor thing can that any makes mother a p useful lead in and excuse capable for a woman girl ' s , ignorance that she
cannot every be so expensively educated as the boys . Almost every mother has it in her power , by the very- discipline of home life , to
th send at would her girls mak into e their the world services furnished valuable with . Not some infrequentl one qualification y some l
famil nice the superintendence young y might girl have whose been of tastes a so nursery used and as is opportunities to broug make ht her up as at most greater one valuable of expense a arge in
to be a second or third-rate governess , "who probably , after some ten or twelve of heart-depressing toil to keep situations for
which she is not years qualified , is found adding another to the list of candidates for the situation of companion , or anxious for
needlework . Nowshe would only too gladly take the situation of an educated and , upper nurse ; but no mother will have a person who ,
incapable general a good nurse "want of being . of It training is a good not ; in their governess the part power , is is of to equall point the societ y out incapable the y to consequences remed of y being this
of itand to leave the correction of the evil in the hands of parents under and , guardians their charge , as . those Quite who in are keep most ing with interested the inefficiency in the young of
some of the applicants is their utter want of promptitude and
effort . Again and again has the chance of a situation been lost
The Employment Of Women. 407
THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN . 407
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1862, page 407, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021862/page/47/
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