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404 ON THE CAUSE OF THE DISTBESS
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what is to become of the men who had intended to enter them ? If a ladies' hairdresser brings his daughter to succeed him
up for instead more of men his in son oth _, what er trades is the so son he may to do be ? compelled There is no to room
emigrate , and if he is not adventurous , , if he loves ease , if he shrinks from at home leaving . If , his then friends , he is not and generous parents , , he he will will prefer beg his remaining father to - sister to take her
let him succeed to the business , and leave his fate chance may , like decree other . The girls same , and princi many ple or app starve lies , to sink all or easy swim ladies trades , as
ancf handicrafts ; but I have selected the example of a ' facture hairdresser of wi , because gs , and the the arrangement making of hair of ladies 'bracelets ' hair , and the chains manu- ,
are employments which can hardly fail to be considered appropossible priate zealousl to y to defended women introduce , yet against them this as them is even one , and if of the those into master which trades tradesman it which is hardl are be y
hair willing -cutting to allow or working it , no workman in , hair , nor will allow teach establishment her a , if woman she has the learned art of
elsewhere It is from , to this work system with him of exclusion in the same which arise most . of those evils that so heavilon women all over the worldand the
rather system a does press part certainl of barbarism y not y proceed ! If from Chinesem over civilization en would , _, but admit for is
lower women drowning wages into female , their and would infants easy trades certainl , but , there y then compel would their men introduction be to no emi necessit grate mi , y and ght
the as existence they kindest are while not thing inclined still they children can to submit . do If by the women to New these is Zealand hardshi to terminate chief ps , perhaps would their miht
have allowed his discarded wife a house and land , she g besides for have eating supported , he her probab ; herself but ly then thoug , and he ht wante there , that d would to all g the ive hav land women e been for himself land no necessity , and irit , and let of ,
them independence build houses , and , mi woul ght d rais quite e up destroy in them their a dangerous feminine sp charms and characteristicsso it seemed to him much better to eat her ,
_according I have dwelt to the on an the , cient universality and venerable and anti custom quity of of the the co difficulty untry . it is
onl sometimes experienced y temporary thoug in , disposing and ht , that occasioned the of superfluous difficult by a y particular we wom now en labour , crisis because under in civil , is
ization of course , which , if peop will le presentl think this y pass , they away are of little its own likel accord y to , exer and t ,
its themselves question elf ; the " as onl to it y remove is new called thing the , is about evil prett . y But it nearl is , the in y as truth attempt old , the as now the u woman worl mad d e
404 On The Cause Of The Distbess
404 ON THE CAUSE OF THE DISTBESS
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 404, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/44/
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