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82 FACTS VERSUS IDEAS.
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Notwithstanding all this , fathers will persist in ignoring such facts , and with a remarkable perverseness continue to maintain the
theory that women must busy themselves at home and nowhere else ; while at the same moment hundreds of voices call out"We
, have no homes . " One of the chief objections urg _^ ed against girls being bound to learn tradesor those in the classes above being
, ¦ properl wasted y should educated the , g is irl , s that get the married money . This thus obj _sjDent ection will is have not worth been
much , unless it can be proved beyond cavil , that when fathers find husbands for their daughterstheir maintenance is secure for life
that cases never happen of , these same daughters having to ; return to their father ' s house , either as penniless widows and with
others clinging to them for help , or as unhappy wives whose husbands have become recklessdissipatedor who from over-toil for
their family have fallen victims , to paralysis , , softening of the brain , heart disease , or any other affliction , which prevents them from
longer supporting either wife or child . The immense numbers left unmarried prove the necessity of employment being given . Yet
would education be of as much , if not more advantage , even to these married women , who instead of hanging as burdens on their
friends or relatives , or wearing out their lives in vain and useless lamentations , might hopefully look to themselves for resources in
their hours of trial , and resolutely set to work for themselves and their children . No money spent on a wise education and proper
training can be , or ever is , lost . The very habits acquired in the process are in themselves an incalculable blessing . Those persons
who are most fluent in their speech against the idea of womenworkers , or those who for the sake of a jest or laugh seek by
vulgar caricature to hold up to ridicule the attempt to train them to reason and to act , little dream of some sad domestic tragedy
they may be thus paving - the way for , even in their own family . An anecdote was related to the writer of this whichas it
paper , , clearly shows the * idea associated with work in the minds of our young girls of the richer classwe shall cite in corroboration of the
, views expressed . In the course of his attendance upon a young lady who was ill
or fancied herself ill , the doctor perceiving that having nothing to , do and want of exercise was the cause of her indisposition , and
feeling rather at a loss what to recommend , gently hinted , " that it would do her a great deal of good were she to help the
housemaid to make the beds , or to rub up the chairs and tables / The patient looking indignant , asked if he thought she would lower herself in that mamier ? She would do nothing of the sortand
told him he must prescribe something else . The next time , the medical gentleman called it was evident " the insult / ' as she
termed it , had been rankling in her mind , as the first words that met his ear were , "I suppose , doctor , you will now propose scouring
the floor as a remedy ? " "I did not think of that / ' coolly answered
82 Facts Versus Ideas.
82 FACTS VERSUS IDEAS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1861, page 82, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041861/page/10/
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