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OPEN COUNCIL. 67
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JDanisTi Fairy Legends Bohn, York and S ...
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XI.—OPEN COUNCIL.
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Open Council. 67
OPEN COUNCIL . 67
Jdanisti Fairy Legends Bohn, York And S ...
_JDanisTi Fairy Legends Bohn , York and S Tales treet , , Covent By Han Garden s Christi . an Andersen .
In a recent number we noticed a beautifully illustrated edition of this favorite Author , and now , for those who prefer a cheaper
volume , containing twelve new stories , we can recommend Bonn ' s edition ; wherein one compact volumethey will find a fund of
entertainment which , will not be exhausted , iii the first or even in the
second reading * .
Xi.—Open Council.
XI . —OPEN COUNCIL . As these pages themselves are intended responsible for general for the discussion opinions , exj the _> ressed Editors . ) do riot hold
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* _jTb the Editor of the English Woma ? i \ s Journal . _bsen It appears Madam made throug , to rue h a very unp Journal leasant to fact establish , that all haird the ressing attenrpts as a which means have of
subsistence for women your have not yet succeeded in developing so much as one , taking solitary their specim needlework en of the out femal of e their hairdresser hands . , day While by day the , sewin these g unfortunate - machine is ,
stunted most human beings timecould still obstin afford atel them y hold but on a bare to an subsistence employment without which , either at its long comfort prosperous been in in the a present false , position , or hope and in the have future undergone . It is a true thorough that , women training hav for e
a wrong way of thinking , or , for no thinking at all , and that must be one cause of the determined dislike shown by many of them to any kind of work , in proportion to its usefulness or productiveness . It cannot be laziness that
great prevents deal their of pains getting if they on in can the onl worl y feel d , sure for we that all there know is that nothing they , will or at tak most e a , littleto be gained bit . It seems to be rather a diseased state of mind
very , y produced the Christianity reach b of y , civilization a bad one social who , and will atmosp take knowled here it — at ge bad a which ift in . sp is ite now of , more all the or teaching less , within of any g
me Being , a widow mucli , who in want is supporting of a , needlewoman three children a few b weeks y her work ago , , I and had whose one sent pros to
pects , like those of her class in general , are getting worse and worse every day marriage . She , consequentl is a highly y respectable well skilled woman in hairdressing , and was . a It lad then y's mai occurred d before to her me hted needlewoman to
what an excellent resource it would be for a blig comthing bine ( else at first equall starting y influential ) the two , should occupations prevent ; so her that new in enterprise case _jDrejudice from , or achiev any - - incomewith
ing a rapid success , she might fill up her time , and eke out her , ance her old ; but accustomed , as you may emp suppose loyment from . I my started opening the idea remark to s my , with new no acquaint success - .
ungenteel She made ; many she could foolish not excuses think , of but touching the fact the evidentl heads y of was the that common it was herd too . And probabl so she end will her go day on s in , starving the workhouse herself at and last stinting ;—but her then children no one , and can deny most
that at the y crisis of her fate she saved her gentility . Above all things in the world , we surely want a higher tone and a better
sterer spirit . about My housemai the cleaning d , a little of the while furniture ago , had , and a she conversation gave me the with result an up of hol it
polish with w , o bec nderf au u se l c omp says lacency , a female and serenity will not of rub mind it . in " . " I am To not that to put sentence on much the
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1861, page 67, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031861/page/67/
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