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68 OPEN COOTTC1I*.
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To the Editor of the English Woman's Jou...
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female self or is her She perfectl sex retires . y She resi from does gned befor not ; she e burn the feels furniture with no shame zeal which to or ' retrieve mortification she has their smeared either credit , but for or her her not - own .
not which polished know she , whether and freely sits gives she down all in the reflects the devotion kitchen that of it which to is not some her altogether taw nature dry is a piece matter capable of of foll . taste I y do to ,
bread and that she eats slie is and defrauding who ever is obli the ged mistress at last , whose if she is wages anxious she to takes see her , and furniture whose
clean done and brig , ht , to bring in a man to do the work as she would have it
she I was did . talking not waste one her day few to a spare yoitiig moments dressmaker in , " embroidery and expressing . She a hope confessed as that ion that she had done such in her timeand addedthat on one occ
the baker had called with a thing the loaves and , caught her , in the fact . " Oh ! " , such and said I he as will , in he let a witnessed dry you sarcastic see embroidery every way hour , " , of " you — every and are he at day then th : at dirty , went are women you on ? to , themselves describe Come dirty children with scenes and me , _,,
g dirty all iven that houses to belong poor ; working the to them miserable men in , that that mothers fool they ' s , pastime may meanwhile continue wisdom . Such , wasting to which is work the encouragement is on to to guide the end the
it women of their of trul weary the be poor lives said . classes Such that thr the is oug the greatest h practical their difficult care and and prudence trying career , and , in the which best may y
directed industry , are , hardly sufficient for the constant demands that are made upon them . bthis timethat the
women If ladies of the are lower really classes convinced will imitate , as I suppose themas they far as are possible y , in everything , , it to be a plainobviousChristian , duty in them to make their
In examp appears the le meantime a little more , they edifying certainl , but , y and nobod do , themselves not look would very a think little apostolical to more look " ; apt at perhaps them to teach they that . " better than they ,
are seem ; y , And going those as , funny moral ladies fi , gures model ( many in Eng of little them lishwomen round , at least hats of ) prefer and whom b the ell the -shaped and ple world asure intellect skirts has of fine fairl heard are clothes the developed so Church much to all - .
the so poor delights women which ( m spring any of from them heart ) adorn , and themselves mind , and their children y for a , summer ' s day , for the time , quickly past , of unbroken bare health have made and prosperity provi .
A sion few for days warmth ' sickness or comfort lays all in their any destitution way ; and of it is themselves well ; they for them and , on their these no smartl occa - -
let dressed sions us , that be prototypes trul society thankful . is not No , entirel I there onl y wish are composed still they some would good sometimes women left give ; and their for young them y- , ; y
or even their y middle-aged , friends a hint to dress themselves a little more soberly . I remain , Madam , yours obedientl y _^
18 th February . A . S .
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To The Editor Of The English Woman's Jou...
To the Editor of the English Woman ' s Journal .
Madam , I cannot In referring but feel again some to s the rise great that object nothing of Miss has yet Elizabeth resulted Blaekw from their ell ' s lectures delivery , urp
amongst attempted so many ? The educated raising and deep of a ly hosp reflecting italwith women all . needful Is it that appendages too much
vision was was perh " dissolved aps too expensive into thin air an up . " undertaking But taking at the , the divine outset examp , and le the of the pleasant grain - , be ade ?
of There mustard are , and seed ass , uredl why y should for wise not reasons a less , ( or pretentious they would beg not inning exist , ) two m rival
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1861, page 68, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031861/page/68/
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