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80 FACTS VERSUS IDEAS.
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who equally required it , and from whom it was an injustice to have withheld it .
How much more kind and wise would it be , and certainly more b Christian y training -like 1 them , were for fathers some occupation to secure the or comfort profession of their while daug they hters had
a home and affectionate friends within it to encourage them , than suffer their prospect of happiness to hang uj > on a mere chanceas
, is now done—a chance which when not met wifch sends many dreamy young girls to destructionor to a lunatic asylumbecause
no other than this one object , and , this only , is held up , before them as the sole purpose of their existence . Moreover , suppose
girls do marry , why should they go like paupers into the houses of their husbands ? If fathers will not permit their daughters to work
c then ountries they , and oug whether ht to secure for married to them or p for ortions sing , le as life is fathers done in should other ,
be reminded of their duty towards those members , of their , family who are most reliant on a parent ' s forethought and care .
We shall spare ourselves the task of citing individual cases , as we know that whoever reads this paper can , from personal observation ,
supply only too many instances of the direful effects of girls cast into the world ' s wilderness without either staff to support or light
to guide them through its gloomy mazes . It seems to be the i strange nto difficult policy and of perilous fathers and positions guardi before ans , to they permit think women of lending to fall a
helping hand . When they have been dragged through mud and , mire , suffered humiliation and indignities of every kind and degree ,
then they offer succour in the form of alms ; forgetful that charity in this guise is but a flimsy veil thrown over that neglect of dut
which makes it neededand whichin itselfis but a wretched y substitute . , , ,
The indifference of that class we have designated as the fourth , namely , respectable small tradesmen and the likewho are perfectl
aware that their girls must work , and work whether , married or y single , strikes one with surprise , and yet it is only carrying out
what is shown by the classes above them , a general apathy to the interests of the girls in a family . Daughters in the rank of , life we
now refer to , pick up their trades or occupation by chance . They are not sent to schools where things useful are taughtsuch as
keep and then ing accounts apprenticed , letter ¦ ¦ out -writing to acquire , and a knowled good plain ge of Eng some lish branch , reading of ,
business as boys are , and taught at the same time habits of order and perseverancein both of which girls are miserabldeficient .
, y On the contrary , when they go at all , they come and go , as suits their humour , and all they do is done imperfectly , whereas a boy is
compelled to go regularly to his work , otherwise he becomes subject to a penalty ; and so should it be with all who must and ought to
work for their daily bread .
Attempts are now being made to establish middle-class schools
80 Facts Versus Ideas.
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1861, page 80, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041861/page/8/
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