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118 HIGH LIVING WITH LOW MEANS.
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Theee Is A Constant Outcry Against The L...
of comprehending and foreseeing' the neglect of sonie of the highest duties of life which must inevitablresult from the constant
strainlet ing * after woman a large of income ordinary as understandin not onl y y a good g once but fairl a necessit y consider y . But the
subject any , and she must see that all is not sound in the present system . She must know that her parents , and more surely her grandparents ,
lived often upon half the means which she and her husband possess , price increased and with of the nearl All necessaries y the articles same , of certainl amount dress y have of of comfort fallen the luxuries . so And much , of yet in life the cost , has positive within not
. the last thirty or forty years , that we might allow ourselves a far As ainp for ler the wardrobe three articles than above our mothers mentioned , and —of yet health spend cleanliness less upon and it .
, , refinement—something may be placed to the account of each in the increase of expenditure . For a slight indisposition we are now
if bathing frequentl we inhabit annuall y recommended large y are cities regarde a change According d almost of scene l as necessities our ; and health countr for is b y our enefited air children and sea and - ,
. y , will great we may allow quantities deduct that there of something medicine is a * from swallowed lus what and we that by our pay our forefathers on baths this and head . more Still for , fre the we - surp
quent changes of linen , and our , wish to see our daughters something more than mere cooks and nurses , cost money . that
But this will not account for all . No , the luxury we comp any lain pleasure of is that at of all , disp to show lay . our Strange neighb that ors it that shoul we d can be g a ive luxu as ry good , or
an entertainment and keep as large an establishment of servants the as they grand , even dinner if they It have has double iven us our much income anxiety ! We in the do prepar not care ation for
. g , and we have probably not asked to it our dearest friends . "We all know ( at least we women ) that the more servants , the more trouble
with to the half mistress the , number and that ; we yet should we have get not our the work courage equally to well act done
difcome ferentl is y so to much our nei therefore ghbors . we We can or do cannot not say afford to ourselve this or s the , " other Our in ;" - but < e So and so , has thisin factone sees it everywhere now , and
we , really cannot do without , it any , longer ; " and the expense is incurred without further consideration . We all wish to spend less ,
but have not the moral courage to be the first in the road to reform . If we . would but be brave enough to say , I cannot afford it , " we
should Moral spare courage ourselves —this infinite is all suffering that is . wanted in the majority of
cases . Our experience ha _$ been that most women do not care for pecuniary parativel display so y anxieties much easy lives as , that and ; lives they that , that they and should is their to say hu have , sb unfettered ands leisure should for by something lead constant
comsional beyond men mere is money often degraded -making , . into But which they fear even to the lose work their of sta profes tus in -
118 High Living With Low Means.
118 HIGH LIVING WITH LOW MEANS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1861, page 118, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041861/page/46/
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