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FACTORY WOMEN AND SERVANTS. 75
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infinitely niore useful and happy than it would otherwise have become ? _Againthe child taken from the school to the factory
need not does be not lost , crush sight of out , and of the the life irl all there those need tendernesses not , and in those some cases , g ,
there loving ' s energ a ies . " , which Could bear women out the of education proverb of and " where feeling there still ' s ming a will le
way with these girls , and , knowing * the disadvantages of their nondomestic employment , try what their influence can do to keep
alive in the girls the instinctive love of home and family , and the emulation to shine in their domestic relationships , there is no doubt
but that uncomfortable homes would soon become the exception rather than the rule with those factory women who were at all
inclined to be good . But the mistaken education of our own daughters too often incapacitates them to be the guides and helpers that they
to oug see ht them to become taking , and their until rig this ht position is improved in the , we factories can scarcel . y expect
It is difficult also to find overlookers of suitable character for the - irls and women in factoriesas we lately heard from a
master g manufacturer young and have found from , other experience to be true . If the right women , could be found , and induced to accept the
condition position , it of would our factory open the irls way and for prevent great improvement the deterioration in the which moral
usually takes place in the g afFectional , nature of the child who has . left school to come to the factory .
By these means , although the exact amount of domestic industry may not be taught or learned , which was taught and learned long
transformed a g ° > ye _^ _^ into vain the , sill sensible y , incapable efficient , and conscientious selfish , servant and mi faithful ght
be-, , servant ; and the idle , dressed-up , thoughtless and improvident factory girlmight become the industrious , modestthoughtfuland
economical , factory girl . But , in order that there , may be , such servants and such factory girlswe of the middle class must not sit
, idle , or suppose that we do our duty by receiving into our houses and treating with consideration , ready-made servants , who have
beenalready trained , well or ill , as the case may be , by other mistresses _; _- or that we have any right , as part of modern society , and enjoying ;'
its advantages , to join in the outcry against factory labour for womenunless we look well to itthat we have done all that our
superior , education , in knowledge , as well as moral culture , should enable us to doto , protect our poorer sisters from the evil influence
, of their position . The domestic training of young servants is so old a subject that
its application to factory girls , once secured , must be left to the consciences of Christian mistresses . It is doubtless an experiment
of special diificulty , but it is one which is at this moment being tried in numerous middle-class homes all over England . The
selection of the right kind of female superintendence in factories , or
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Factory Women And Servants. 75
_FACTORY WOMEN AND SERVANTS . 75
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1863, page 75, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041863/page/3/
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