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OPEN COUNCIL. 65
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To the Editor of the English Woman's Jou...
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To The Jeditor Of The English Woman's Jo...
_feeartened repeat the task at the and unnecessary allows ! tlie monotonous fatigue and cold time meat bestowed to re-app , is ear unwilling on table " : to ; to blame for tlie omission of made dishes
she Dining is not -house the onl cookery y one is- held up by some men for our model , . but they do not consider _that at these places all the proper requisites and conveniand At most
_ences houses Remote arej they as are the a matter either subjects i of gnored course , begrud provided house ged -building , or withheld emp and loyed water . . lhave private muck
to do with as th _<* time at the appear disposal , of the middle-class housewife suppy and her _uiaid-of-all-work _. The Paris plan of a block of would buildings be , with immense a house boon on
to each such floor women , and . a concierge Besides the to answer comfort all of comers inhabiting , rooms an , though fey / in _, numberyet large in size and commodious in arrangement , the mistress and
thing maid when s can home , have go : to at to market onee trust _^ . instead to together the of master our , make prevailing of the the best shop custom of for the of the money i f quality sending , and and for bring orders _£ > rice the , of "
we scarcel the article credible wanted , the and amount to the of errand time and boy temper for its saved punctual to the arrival maid . -of It -all is - y , of the eternal of the door
which work b is enables y save the d absence the bj mistress the agency to d of . _o without the concierge interruption the constant . In a attendance very * ' _answering poor household of a servant this , " . person
where in panie B the y s the , shape clean a larg improper of habits e carry amount dirty of ing of bathing and cistern hard lifting repulsive prevail supp heavy ly in labor of pails the water is and bed inflicted from eans -room the of on . water monopolist women This , mi especiall servants ht com be y -
avoided if men would insist on a proper water supply through pipes g and taps If to all would the parts convince of a . house themselves requiring of it the . importance of ling ttu 3
means men , women would soon _practise the ; virtues of comfortable supp , y cheerful , economical , housekeeping ,
A Housewife ,,
Open Council. 65
OPEN _COUNCIL . 65
To The Editor Of The English Woman's Jou...
To the Editor of the English Woman ' s Journal *
Madam , graceful There revelations can be few of among private your life readers now almost who are dail not y to disgusted be met with by the in dis the - Court of
public prints . I allude , of course , to the proceedings in the new Divorce . imag founding So ine painful that the the remed is evil the could with feeling the not to di have sease which existed and they betray before give ing it rise was their , that revealed ignorance many , thus persons of con the
y , in fact I this will that letter leave the first to this touch step difficult towards branch a main cure of is cause leg exposure islation which * in renders other it hands imperative , proposing for upon
the law to interfere in one of the most sacred relations in life . from If motives every marriage of esteem were respect what a admiration _marriage should companion be , if shi it were and contracted above alL
strong rate , —{ symp Sir ( _Jresswell athy , —or Cresswell , between , mi inferior , ght extend natures his , , morning regard and ride p sympath , s _Tbeyond , y Hotten at any _,, Kowhang his wiand eat his dinner in while the " Times "
, up g , peace , of would and told cease because to linger until in quite the servants lately it ' hall was . the But truth as , long that as there of women is no are sp told here ,
usefulness open to them , no chance of happiness or even independence while except our through dependents marriage will , more there and will mor be e increasing become our work judges for and the our lawyer spies s . ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 65, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/65/
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