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74 FACTORY WOMEN AND SERVANTS.
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not for one moment "believe that the domestic virtues of our women must But depart that while , because this their transition industry from is domestic forced into industry new to channels that of . the
factory ht also has to been be and all is forced so rap into idl some y going new on form , the s of middle social industry classesequy
oug is " who very evident seeketh . wool If they and , as flax a class and , can worketh no longer willin be like gly the with woman her
hands them / rem ' " emb giving er the a portion fact that to , her in the maidens large , " numbers in their collected homes , let in
wealth the factory which , and that by factory means brings of , the consideration our ladies in derived the middle from class the .
have still larger opportunities of personal , influence on the masses , without losing the opportunity of training in their own houses if the
needful domestic servantand that they are most culpable they use neglect this these means which of circumstances usefulness , . That have our put countrywomen into their hands either , or
are altogether power fit to , use it , let those judge who know most of willin society . to Are take the _iipon wives themselves and daug the hters toil of and large anxiet emp y loyers which generall -a know y - g
led involve ge of ? Or the , if social they were wants able and and errors willing of , their would work they peop be generall le would y aided and encouraged by their husbands and fathers to attempt it ?
Far be it from us to ignore the many instances in which they have come forward as the real friends of their toiling sisters , but we in societthe
think duty which that it the has superintendence scarcely yet been of her looked household upon servants y was as to that the lad in both y of positions a hundred the years interchange ago . of Yet benefits a little moral reflection as well w as ill mate show
-, rial , should equally go on , and if it does not we must expect a curse to follow . maxims
You cannot teach women and girls to be moral by any a again whatever vital , it affection . would If you be of were as some nothing to sort convince , , a unless personal their you love reason could 1 . It connect over has that and been there it with over the is
no experience influence of those more mo easy st connected to were gain reall th with an aw young this ake . to g Woul irls the , d needs it not of the be possibleif educated women y
the present factory time , , what graduall our y grandmothers but persistentl did y to for do their in the gr home from andmothers time and to in ?
Would it not be possible for every married woman , timeto feel it her duty to take into her house a likely child , as soon as she , had learnt the rudiments of knowledge at the National or d
British School—a girl not older than twelve or fourteen—anby degrees , and by means the lady forth 's own the wisdom attachment would to suggest herself , teach and
f amil household which would work , ultimatel and call be a sufficient return for the trouble and y e , bestowedbesides y rendering the life of that girl
xpense ,
74 Factory Women And Servants.
74 FACTORY WOMEN AND SERVANTS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1863, page 74, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041863/page/2/
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