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    PREVALENT AMONG SINGLE WOMEN. 407

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    There Is A General Impression That The D...

    _effort of leaving home is once made , it seems certain that men are when happier loyed when in sedentary engaged in labour active which out-of being -doors unnatural work than to

    menalmost emp invariably injures their , health . The Colonies would , be greatly benefited also by the changetheir prosperity

    being checked by the want of male labour , . One Colony ( Queensland ) is actually petitioning to be allowed to import

    granted negroes , , so the great English is the nation want will of present labourers a . strang If this e spectacl petition e to is

    the world ; negroes doing Englishmen ' s work abroad ; men doing women ' s work at homeand women starvingbegging

    and sinning , because they can , get no honest employment , ! , But perhaps it may be askedWhy not export the superfluous

    women and leave the men at , home to follow their trades in peace ? The answer is easy . Because women can neither

    plough , cut down trees , dig for gold , nor perform any of the rough work wanted in a wild country .

    If the civilized world has grown too small for the numbers inhabiting itso that there is not work for allit is in the

    power of men , , and men only , to enlarge these , limits . It is the bounden duty of England to send out as many women to

    the Colonies as are wanted to be wives , teachers , or servants ; to send more would be a crime , because they would not find

    employment . When we read that in some Colonies there are must hundreds not or perhaps that thousands such a number of men of more women than is women wanted , we as suppose

    would make up the difference . Many of these men are gold leading diggers a and wild squatters rough life in and the do bush not and wish backwoods to be encumbered , who are

    with wives . In a few years they will settle down and marry , and be succeeded by a new set of diggers and squatters , who ,

    If of like the men their numbers in predecessors a colony were must equalized , must alway be s unmarried crowds exceed of that ; women thus of , the the would women number find ,

    themselves on a foreign shore without , the means of living . It has been shown that young men engaged in feminine

    avocations , would be positive gainers by any change which should induce them to emigrate , yet it cannot be denied that

    middle-aged and married men , as they could not leave the countrywould be exposed to inconvenience by the reduction of

    wages which , the introduction of women into their trades would occasion . This inconvenience would be somewhat mitigated

    hy their being relieved from the maintenance of their daughters ; still men who were used to earning five or six shillings a day

    would , on being reduced to three or four , find themselves

    be deprived the cas of e many is a cause luxuries of just and regret comforts . But , and the that fact this is should that ,

    Prevalent Among Single Women. 407

    PREVALENT AMONG SINGLE WOMEN . 407

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 407, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/47/