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74 WOMAN'S WORK IN THE WORLD'S CLOTHING.
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Yet More Far Ancient From Having Than Ev...
tonesto tell the other sex that they too may be , nay , that possibl , y it is even better that they should be , women as well as
needle-women . Hithertohoweverthere have been other and even stronger
powers to , conflict with , than that of the common opinion of and needle it -work has been being only almost the favoured the only emp minorit loyment possessing fit for women large ,
meanswho could avail themselves fully of the y , recently-opened facilities , for feminine improvement ; for how lishments could a mother while
how her sit down children indeed to pursue could 's unmade studie woman garments s , or do acq so were uir in e accom comfort heaped p around while any her , lack ? or
of neatness in her under any clothing- shamed the correct , aspect of her outer attire ? Yet how tedious the labour of securing that
steel over neatness throug a mass ; how h the of weary stiff harsh ing colourless calico to , sit ten fabric still , twelve , hour , thrusting , perh after aps hour twen the , stubborn ty bending times ,
as expenditure in ere making much an inch relief a of of sing work as a le very would dul is moderate accomp y have voluminous been lished sum desired of skirt would the . many from often It is the yards true have pressure required that secured the of
constant Smith ' sthat " plain " The needlework intellectual . " improvement It was a rem of ark women of Sy is dney
considered to , be of such subordinate importance , that £ 20 paid for needlework would give to a whole family leisure to acquire a
yet would fund the of suffice main real in knowled difficulty many ge families is ; " certainl and to thoug set that free h public many a much precious smaller inion h hours ardl sum y , .
countenances such a mode of expenditure y , and is op prone to conseam sider stress it " extravagant since what " without to lay any out stoop much ing money from her in pay position ing a ,
the a thoug lady extra ht can she , do oug quite ht to a do wife as , . well Even hardl as if any feels a husban hired at liberty d worker be willing to , avail it is to mostl herself incur y j
of his liberality expense , , knowing that y it is not general among her j middle-class compeers , and "unwilling to seem less thrifty effected than j
by oth home ers ; whil -work e to becomes persons really of small a serious incomes consideration , the saving . " What
would that made you have for had ? " to the pay writer to have once had hear such d a a little fro artist ck as young
husband enquire you of his wife , an artist too previous to her marriagebut busy the construction of a child ' s dress *
, now over seen " About you tenpence sitting over , I it suppose nearly , " the was whole the day repl , y a . day u And that I mi have ght I I
have been given to painting , " rejoined he , in almost a re- I and proachfu talents l tone . , " for I in am his afraid eyes " it he seemed added a sad smiling waste of " her that tim we e j
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74 Woman's Work In The World's Clothing.
74 WOMAN ' S WORK IN THE WORLD ' S _CLOTHING .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page 74, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/2/
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