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PREVALENT AMONG SINGLE WOMEN. 408^
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There Is A General Impression That The D...
excluded , while the condition of those admitted is one of material unhappiness equall and y grea uselessness t in both , and cases the . when was To t me e the of the good first w crowded orking defect
wards seems are the closed worst . women Often , some in L time ond s o n , crowd of women over- are shut this out and ha left to ev spend en , when the , nig w ht on on the the stones ground of ! the I s treet , te , wit and h
several p pens tances before mecutout from newspapers during the lives last few opposi mon te ths a . workhouse In one , case , comp , a lains respec t t abl t he tr tradesman magistra , te who in _*
numbers Lambeth of Police C crea ourt tures , that refused he is frequen admittance tly dis . essed On one by seeing bleak night , he saw poor four v girls huddled up together on the ground in
there Ch fron inaman t i s nothing the were workhouse to to be proud , from b of a whi in workhouse ch our th present ey wer at e p ni lan excluded ht . If a . humane t Trul o see y ,
one of these heaps of shivering y humanity lying ou g t , the wind , rainor snowhe miht well be excused for thinking the system .
pursued The , number in Ms , own of adul g country t women the least inhabiting cruel of workhouses the two ! in
England and Wales in March , 1861 , was 39 , 073 , yet this does not many represen are t the excluded number who of w t ould hose be requiring glad to relief get , in . as We must see , ,.
therefore , confess that our present system , like those which preceded expense on it , is the not community satisfactory , , it is w still hile i inefficient t imposes , cruel and enormou leaves hard s
large numbers of poor women unrelieved to suffer - shi Thus ps . all the plans for providing for superfluous women
hitherto proved more tried or , w less hether objectionable by civilized or o inefficient r uncivilized . nations , have There remainshoweverone other lana lan which has
never been fullt , riedbut , whichif success p , ful p would have the y , , , t conver effec o admi t o tin f t g putting wome them n f into an reel end useful in to to memb superfluous all em ers loyments of women society suitable . altogether This to plan their , by is
alon strength and . Perhaps it is from this fa y il is ing the to p fulfil lan p it tended that we by have Providence fallen into all
g , can such scarcel great difficulties believe that . The l supposition numbers is of probable women were , because created we
thoug expressl h y this to y be plan starve may d , seem to arge death obviousl or supported y the right by one charity , thoug . But h ifc
may out economists . recommen The accomp , let it d lishment not itself Ibe alik imag of e this ined to p p that lan hilanth requires it is rop an no easy ts small and one political to amount carry for
if of women good feeling are to and be generosity admitted into on the all part trades of suitable working for men them , _,.
Prevalent Among Single Women. 408^
PREVALENT AMONG SINGLE WOMEN . 408 _^
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 403, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/43/
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