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THE WOKK THAT ALL MAY DO. 3
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Engaged It Social Is Probabl Science In ...
into But the , it condition may be of said all , who it is work impossible for them for ; peop and now to enquire -a-days
som read e -made articles linen , shir shops ts for I admit tance , this are full usuall bu y t purchased are we doing at
what y we can ? Do . we take any pains y , to ascertain the character of the dressmakerstailorsoutfitterswith whom
I dndl deal y rat , and e and i justl t give is y the no towards t preference their difficult , to work those -peop , to who obtai le ? are n I known , trustworth London to , act at y
informa any tion , . The Committee very of the _JS [ gedlewoman ' s Institution , dressmaking and Hinde subject th St ey ; . they , execute Manchester the also fearful provide orders Square a thoroug larg , can e number hl during thro y well w - much of the . women With London light with regar up season on work d the to ,
resulting in cases , like that pressure of Marianne Walkley , arise mainly , a from few the great fact of italists the work . It being seems almost that twent entirel y in modistes the hands rule of
the world of cap fashionand that to wear a dress y made up beyond the palewould be , a serious trial to our iring elegantes !
Perhaps , those among them who have hearts asp beneath their will before threnew a tice which condemns
gauzes hundreds of pause their country- ey women to prac a life of slavery and to earl But y dea thoug th . * frivolous women have sins enough to answer
for makers they on too this are are head heavy often , I dweller must sugges h s in but glass t they to houses our form lords . The and a woes small masters of dress , tha tion - t
of the misery we enoug are con , templating . The y shirt maker por , the waistcoat makerthe brace makerthe working tailor and
bootover maker -work , among and who starvation , m are to be found t , spending the most their hideous strength cases of
and women mantle ; their makers collective yet how number , far men exceeds ive th at of sub the ject dress
serious thought in con , nection many with their o g wn daily life ? T any he clerend his time and substance in ood works
the g p yman hysician may freel sp y give his skill to the poor , the g legislator , propound the most enlightened schemes for the improvement of
they they things think perform in general of the the , but common makers I fear of -p it lace their by no garments t means of orderi follows and ng n do , ew that wh clo a when t t in ,
them lies to secure fair dealing for them . , * This paper was written before I had seen the admirable article The
probabl u remed Needl y eworJcers there the onl sugge versu solu sted s tion S belongs oc on iety a " great rather in No scale . to 4 the of of sp the the here difficulty Victoria of posi we t Magazine ive are work consider . . It is
ing , but it does not y lessen , the duty or the value of individual consideration _< evil state tice of ; t things hat the is lack well shewn these vir in tues a tract has , recentl uch to y published with the by present The
Ladies' Sanitary Association , — " Dress and its Cost . "
The Wokk That All May Do. 3
THE WOKK THAT ALL MAY DO . 3
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1864, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031864/page/3/
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