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OPEN COUNCIL. 211
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Women And Woek.
is possible that women might , with taking pains , learn all that is necessary , but wheredear Mrs . A . are they to find the physical strength for a
profes-, my , sion ? Up night and day , it may be , and certainly out in all weathers . " " Let them wear thick shoes" was my sensible reply ; " and as to their being up all
, night , pray , Mrs . B ., were you ever at a dancing party ? " Our hostess smiled , apparently at the recollection of some young lady ' s _loerseverance in the
honourable pursuit of dancing ; and she . then suggested that I should read aloud to the company , if the proposal were agreeable to them , a little episode from
Frederica Bremer ' s ' Life in Dalecarlia , ' which , she thought , was very much to the present besides being a very clear story . " The subject" said
purpose , , she , " that we are making such a difficulty of , is treated by Miss Bremer with such clearness and such easy good humour that I do not think our discussion
could end more happily than with the reading of it . " Of course the ladies were too polite to object to my story , and so , after receiving another hint from Mrs . A . to go on , I read as follows :
The Story of Fraulein Lotte .
Fraulein Lotte was of an ancient noble family . seven She aunts had lost . All her the father relations , but lived she had in the a mother town of , a W sister . She , seven had uncles also had , and a
brother who , according to the law of inheritance in Sweden , had taken possesproperty sion , at the ; then father , having ' s death squandere , of twice d his as much own money as his , sisters he had ' share proceeded of the to famil seize y
upon doubt , his have sisters broug ' ht ( having them to been utter appointed ruin had their not guardian death fortunatel ) , and he y would prevented , no littl him e . cottage With the and small they lived pittance together that was in a left very to humble them , their way mother just contriving rented a
, , to make all ends meet by means of the strictest economy . she with Lotte was great 's considered sister assiduity was b handsome . her She relations played , and possessed as the hi guitar hl som , i she fted e talents sang and , it she which was painted expected she cultivated flowers quite ,
as a matter of course y that she should get g on y g in the , world . As for Fraulein warm Lotte , heart she was and endowed a pair of by moustaches nature with when a good ce she constitution was often , in a p the lain fa face mil , y a
called , in a , jesting way , " the Major ; " , but in earnest she was much oftener success called " in poor the world Lotte , " was for not she looked possessed upon neither as anything beauty so nor very talents certain , . and Lotte her
herself , however , did not take such a desponding view of the subject . She had , gant very earl lady y , , but begu I n will to say try to to herself be a : practical I cannot wom make an , myself and at a least beauty a thoroug nor an ele hly
little come good housekeeper as was possible so small . Her that But mothe there here r again was being nothing she an was agreeable to stopped do conversable but short to , p for inch her woman and mother live and on ' s the in as
sister a highly . accomplished young lady , they had , frequent invitations , to drink tea and coffee with the different members of the family . It was a sad thing for our poor Major to be obliged to join their parties , for she found
herconsidering obli self ged quite to swallow overlooked all this her , that ; cup no she of one coffe should thoug e in beg ht silence in of to asking and have solitude her some to . peculiar dance It was , and notions but natural she con was - ,
and cernin silent g herself , while , and her , sister accordi Emile ngly , p she layed fell , sang into , painted the habi flowers t of sitting , and exercised very still her At various length talents one fine all morning the day Fraulein long . Lotte went to her mother , and said :
morsel _" Dear mother of bread , . I cannot Wretched sit , here gloomy any longer thoughts in come idleness crowding helping Q into to 2 eat my up mind your ,
Open Council. 211
OPEN COUNCIL . 211
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1858, page 211, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051858/page/67/
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