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Vol. XIII. April 1, 1864. No. 74.
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XIV.—WOMAN'S WOBK IIST THE WORLD'S CLOTH...
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yet More far ancient from having than ev...
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The
THE
ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOUENAL .
PUBLISHED MONTHLY .
Vol. Xiii. April 1, 1864. No. 74.
Vol . XIII . April 1 , 1864 . No . 74 .
Xiv.—Woman's Wobk Iist The World's Cloth...
XIV . —WOMAN'S WOBK _IIST THE WORLD'S CLOTHING . ( Concluded . ) VIII . — The Needle and the Sewing Machine .
Yet More Far Ancient From Having Than Ev...
yet More far ancient from having than even disappeared the tool with of the that spinner now ' obsolete s antique imp craft le- ,
the ment , -what tre the that distaff rules was nearl the the needle whole is—th real e symbol m of womanhood of feminity , y ;
and , scep slight and slender as it appears , too often has it proved a rod sharp of iron littering , crushing point its ierced subjects to their into hearts slaves and ; too been often crimsoned has its
with their g very life-blood p . _ISTo one could wish , that it should be entirelbanishedthat leisure should no longer have recourse
to it for y usefu ] emp , loyment , or taste call in its aid to develop forms of beauty ; but all may rejoice that , as a tyrant , claiming
the tribute of unceasing toil , and permitting no thought or hand aspiration and to happy stray is beyond the generation itself , the hour that has of its seen deposition at least is the at
dawn ; of a better day , when this power shall be limited to its the rightful needle domain was , made and it for shall woman be universal not woman ly acknowled for the ged needle that .
Hardly yet has the world at large , learnt this ; hardly yet is the better spirit extinct education which for has irlsor so a often wider repelled here of any development demand for for a
womenwith the alarmed g , cry , " They sp had better learn to make their husbands , ' shirts" and checked every feminine attempt at
self-culture by scornfull , y remitting the woman to her needle as of the St cobbler . Crispin to his have last been . Yet found as , who in sp , ite without of proverbs abandoning , discip the les
bine tools oth of their er and trade hig , her have occasional ventured pursuits to rise above with them that , by to which comhas they encouraged gained their them daily to bread be men , and as the well wiser as sp cobblers irit of a ; new even era so
the voice of the same era is beginning , though perhaps in fainter
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/1/
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