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PREVALENT AMONG .»SINGLE WQMEN. 405
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the to g successfu ive it a ra l t solving ional and of humane the problem answer will , and be one it is of probable the hihes that t ;
triumphs of Christianity and civilization , . g In barbarous times and countriesthe women were got rid of
wi w spread sys ithout thout tem over regard suffering was the ins to t worl it humanity u The ted d , a convent wi t , tt t he t when system sp view irit , the arose of was lig disposing , in and t of fact the Chri a of convent s tiani them d t y
no compromise t allow women between to . become right indu and strious wrong self . As -supporting , bad peop , memb le would ers
them of socie at ty their , good own people took Our charge workhouses of them refuges , and maint i ained
tentiariesand other chari expense ties . for womenare all , the sam , pen spirit of compromise , they are wretched subs , titutes for the means of
Wo earning rkhouses an honest are , in living one , res bu pect t are superio far better r to than convents nothing as at those all .
who avail themselves of their shelter are free to leave , it whenever the opportunity of employment offers itself ; on another
for poin table t , however to deter , they are le in from ferior en , t being ering made on the purposel supposi y tion uncom that
lack work bu peop t the idle . _ISTowas far as ards women none this supposition is untrue , loyment to them ,
being overstocked , while many , every which emp they would open be glad to enter are kept closed against them , and it is manifestly unjust
to prevent women from getting employment yet to punish them for advan no tage t working of the . * community If , as many that persons women t should hink , it is excluded to the
profi comfor re from taining t easy b t y more their handicrafts en men forced in , for the idleness th country e sake oug , t f t keep to the m ing ain communi up tain wages them ty who and in
. suicidal It may , however in the , be workmen easily shown to ex , that clude in women some . trades When it an is
article is p cap able of exportation , and is manufactured by women admi abroad t women , it is eviden or t , th to at work unless them Eng sel ves ishmen as chea consen las t ei women ther to p
they must be undersold agree and lose the trade . This y has actually , happened in the watch trade , as titled . Mr . Bennet Femal in Labour 1857 foretold it
by would the . Working The writer Man of ' a s tract Social , en Science " Committee e , quotes , " issued the watch trade at Coventas an example of the high rate of
wages e occasioned workmen in by other the ry trades non-emp to keep ymen them t of out women . A different , to encourag
watchm moral may akers are w be now draw ruined n from and the livin instance on alms selected th , as t t hese rade g ,
having one to the gone whole to Neufchatel country , . for The hundreds loss of , this perhap trade s thousands is a serious of
Prevalent Among .»Single Wqmen. 405
PREVALENT AMONG . » SINGLE _WQMEN . 405
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 405, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/45/
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