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COUNCIL. 427 OPEN
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To the Editors of the English Woman's Jo...
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To the Editors of the English 'Woman' 1 ...
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Council. 427 Open
COUNCIL . 427 OPEN
To The Editors Of The English Woman's Jo...
To the Editors of the English Woman's Journal . painters ! Lai The > ies decorating , other day the I was shutters in a house of tlie where windows I saw with three purp young le iris lad on y a house scarlet
ground , with shields and mottoes intermixed ; the effect was very beautiful , and the painting how very nicel months y done . out of the twelve we Londoners pass in
do town Considering not , and think how we many pay many hours sufficient out of attention the attention twenty to - the four of ladies in we -door pas particularl s in scenery our homes to which the , I
surrounds us . And I would call the y imp There ortance is of no house reason decoration , why all year . elab after oratel year we ained should to imitate continue woods to have when our
with doors very , shutters little , more and panels expense , we might have y gr rich illuminations and decora , - , tions with some from intention and sentiment knowled . that there are young lady
artists I can whose speak names are positive on your Register ge who are capable many and willing to undertake such work . I amLadiesyours truly ,
, , B . L . S . 15 .
To The Editors Of The English 'Woman' 1 ...
To the Editors of the English 'Woman ' s Journal . terse _g % Ladies Am and I , p wrong ithy adage —have , " Money I my whole makes long the life man been committed ; manners wrong— to in make treasuring the gentle in that in
fancy man , " , to among "be acted the on relics throug of h ancestral life , and wisdom handed , down oldfashioned as precious " memory a heirlooms to - -
of my dent our chi as ldren forefathers the ? " West If not and -End , liow define Housekeeper can lad so y professedl ( which " contemptuousl , of y " cours - e , is y simp ignor ly this e the that correspon somewhat feminine axiom
ambi of gentleman guous p than hrase ) to this mean , signifies —if a " as , peculiar the I believe individual position the occupy nam , " or e can , ing as the onl I suppose y same be justl ? Now y app , if lied it be to reallmore ,
and and a woman intrinsic y base are of pure difference instinctivel , truthful in y , , the repugnant upri suitableness ght , nature —it follows , of to various whom that emp th all ere things loyments is a very mean to essential , ladies sordid ; ,
domestic servicewhich your correspondent considers the natural and proper room resource dignity for , " all I , women believe to " compelled be , from the to descend reasons from hereinafter " so called stated " , drawing the very - Heartiland admirinldo I concur
in here last your gagn I _mrast correspondent epain stop a ; lad nor y ' s would even noble at adopt avowal the . risk that of being all y labor deemed is " honorable illog gy laundress ical and "— un but
-Step refined henson , deny and the a aristocracy scavenger on of b the genius nature same or and level place education . To a lord me and as it even improvers a appears or that — re a - for man or woman intellectuall qualified to y embrace a purelmechanical occupationis
an finers act of of society unfaithfulness to God y , dishonesty to society y , and injustice to those , disqualified for higher that work under . All , ordinary poor ladies circumstances , however , are no not true gifted lad ; there would
fore should become , when be a servan assi asserting gned t . among This , ourselves is found , in a the reason melanchol of almost in y but un , too iversal well established app conducted y lication
households fact that , even the among prevailing the better tone of class morals of servants is lamentabl , respectabl y low , that y of mind coarse and , frivolousthat of dialect harsh and painful to a refined dail ear .
What ladwould or , should , save under direct necessity , incur the y , hourl suffering for y mind suffering y -that doth must , ari endure sing like from that unabated such it feeds ungenial throug on , " hout she and found her debasin working at last g intercourse fatal life , relief unless — in ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1862, page 427, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021862/page/67/
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