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MES. HOBINSON'S HOUSEMAID. 125
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Mrs. Robinson Is In Search, Of A Housema...
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But tongues strive look to from do at their the evil duty deeds in of and the life words way in of , which and life in it y which has know leased they that they are not called are their to .
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. the work that will be expected from them , still less have they been practised in the self-control that might enable them to bear
unreasonable others " placed of out the demands " . same servan on class t their s , ; with the hel small p drud lessn tradespeop gery ess and required ignorance le , laundresses of them . They is , and are far
beyond their strength and ability , perhaps beyond the strength proportion and ability of of them twice , run their away years , but . They they , must that is live a , very and large how
in destroyed do an they evening . live Go ? , , a and Go few into there months the you later low wiU , streets into find the , alleys them Mag will dalen , , find destr and these ward oy gin ing almost of shop and the s ,
Workhouse , their first home , and there you mercy children will . Some be shown , and those their the youth happ and iest friendlessness of all , have gone ; others where , wasted more of
b all y , disease alternate , await between their suffering release ; and and some vice , , whose the sick lot is ward worst and the street
sam Meanwhile e " part . y , dress _" real , " ladie thus s find causing it _impossibl a demand e for to appear the manufacture twice in the of and iritual
to finery are many kep , which t hundreds down is , and supp of the lied poor parish at untaug the cost money ht of girls health apparentl . And , bodil y the saved y parish . sp Perhaps rates , well
the parish purse might suffer less by an outlay for a managed which training turns school those for children its homeless first children into destructive , than it creatures does by a prey system ing
on their fellow-beings , next into expensive claimants for food and medicine . in
feeling "With which a with little would wardrobes alteration enable in less " parish real cop ladies iousl arrangements y " furnished to go , and into , hundreds a the change best of of
company friendless son But would who g have irls is to would no mend trouble become first in : the finding useful thoug , active a housemaid htless women girl . , , and the Mrs economical .
Robinrestryman , or the real lady ?
Mes. Hobinson's Housemaid. 125
MES . HOBINSON ' S HOUSEMAID . 125
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 125, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/53/
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