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THE NEEDLE AND THE SEWING MACHINE. 75
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Yet More Far Ancient From Having Than Ev...
_cannot say yet that money is no object ; ' but then you know , would even on have that been view worth , you mi ten ght guineas have . sketched " But the in thoug a picture htfu which l wife
guineas sold soon for exp onl years lained y in , or the that never bush the have , tenpence for been her sold picture was at in all mi the , g so ht that hand not have any , the profit been ten
from it was but a distant contingency , while the little frock positive being' wanted immediate at once gain , to not save to the be desp price ised of in its their making strugg was ling a
, position Again . the popular acceptance of needlework as the most fit
and proper , of all occupations for women , furnishes narrowminded parents with sufficient reason for not providing their
intellect daughters . with They emp could loyments not be requiring left to do greater absolutel exercise y nothing of the ;
which but while the there world is a purely mechanical to be perfectl pursuit y appropriate open to them and ,
pronounces mental becoming activity _^ none need which be had mig recourse ht excite to ; a and dangerous though in degree England of
this remark has perhaps but a very limited application , in other _countries this is far from being the case . The observations of
throw M . Ernest some Legouve light upon , in this his subject " Histoire . " To Morale suffer des pain Femmes / ' says he , " ,
evil "to s , be but exhausted they do not with revolt toil , these us , for are they evils are doub the tless necessary , very con real - ditions of existencebut ennui—that death in lifethat aching
; , rates vacuit and y , that depraves conscious the ' soul annihilation . Well — then that our it provinces is which exaspe abound
in poor young girls , whom a forced , idleness condemns to this torture . If they still have parents , their youth consumes itself
that before white that flat everlasting linen—the needle emblem , that of passes their and fate repasses . " When throug , for h a
young lady to spend her chief time in sewing linen together , shall be looked upon as quite as much out of the question , as it
would be now for her to devote herself to spinning it , something else must be found to fill up her days ; and it is not unlikely that it be something of a character which will not leave
women may to be , as they now too often are in lands just awakening to free irations—a clog on man ' s progress .
asp inning In all . probability There was * a sewing time when will every follow woman the sam sewed e course just as as
sp every woman spun ; but , as we have seen , after a while , the use of both distaff and needle was abandoned by the wealthand
luxuriousandas a compensation for the amount of labour y thus of withdrawn the poorer , from class , the adopted common these stock pursuits , a certain as a number profession of , women giving
up their whole time to them ; while the middle classes , as a rule ,
The Needle And The Sewing Machine. 75
THE NEEDLE AND THE SEWING MACHINE . 75
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page 75, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/3/
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