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64 OPEN COUNCIL.
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To the JEditor of the English Woman's Jo...
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To The Editor Of The Jenilish Woman's Jo...
wliorn she selects must enter her establishment , as a refusal on Ms part would masters exclude of Mm the from corporation the guild being and b its y their rights corporation ; liis master oath , as bound well as to protect all the
, , the widow ' s right , and to . look after her interests . " The next extracts are from a letter addressed to the writer of that from which , the foregoing passages have been translated .
" I sent you word through the messenger yesterday , that I should send you sorry to-day I a cannot number do of so widows to-day ' as shop one cards of my , according workmen to has your met request with . a severe I am
accident in falling off a scaffolding , which has wholly occupied my time . '' The article in an English periodical , in reference to wMch you wish to obtain these address cards , astonishes me extremely .
so " self How -evident can any ? body write or believe a fact , the impossibility of which is send can " forward I you think the it to printed a shorter Eng Trade way lish , correspondent Directory and even , a { _JECandels better . proof Adress . than _JBuch mere , ) which cards , , you to
your " There are even more widows here than those marked in the book , who continue their deceased husband ' s business ; the same rule is applicable to the widows of our artizans .
" You may confidently point out to your English correspondent , that a widow of Frankfort , whatever position of life she may be in , is not restricted in any cannot way Some whatever realise of the , . without " expressions an actual in these residence letters in may this seem country strong , a , state but of German opinion s
and practice so very different to that which prevails in their own , and which _, permits the raising of questions now which were settled long ago in their Fatherland .
I am , dear Madam , Tour faithful servant ,
J . S .
64 Open Council.
64 OPEN COUNCIL .
To The Jeditor Of The English Woman's Jo...
To the JEditor of the English Woman ' s Journal .
Djeau , Madam , economical As women housekeep ' s short-comings ing have in latel the knowled been much ge and discussed practice and of exposed comfortable and ,
especially condemned by male writers y , ( who like true sons of Adam are , ready to throw all the blame on the woman , ) I wish to suggest whether , in many
themselves cases , the evils and comp that lained the remed of may mainl not ori rests ginate with in the them selfish . neglect of men Upon taking , a new house or lod y gings y , how few men care to inspect , much
less insist with the landlord for the proper requisites in the kitchen departof ment a famil . Yet y , althoug this is the h well macliinery aware in for their their own daily profession comfort . or How trade few of the masters
importance utensils so of necessary good implements to good , _^ will economical cheerfull housekeep y spend ing on . the As patent instances cooking , all impossible stews , gravies with , our puddings old fashioned , require grate constant with thoug its alternations h gentle of heat thick . This smoke is
, and fierce scorching name . Yet an efficient " kitchener" is never insisted g on ives by all the the master means of as good a necessary cooking without fixture dirt from , smoke the landlord , or cruel , though scorching it
the of the grate person . M and any clothes relishing of dishes the cook can , at be h made alf the of cost the of cold fuel remains required of by a j the oint mean , if the s of meat doing be this first quietl minced y . in A five " Nve minutes ' s Chopp , but _ing if Machine asked for " , g it ive is s
refused after an by hour the ' s master hard lab as o r , extravagant with hurt stiff , needless fingers expense , right- . arm A woman aching , , who dis ~
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 64, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/64/
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