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INSANITY AMONG WOMEN. 155
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In Directing His Attention To The Import...
Absorbed in their own world of romance , those whose reading almost selfish exclusivel and exceeding y consists ly nninteresting of works of to fiction those become who happen of necessity to be
their comp , anions . Well indeed would it be were all willing to her who rather regulate , novel dreading to the swallow the amoun the moment , gradual b t y of the fictitious she test mastery found emp literature over loyed it tended self b they y -control a to lad attempt interfere y , used friend to to di with lay of gest mine down her , or ,
written prompt on attention the evils to which her husb have and arisen or her from children yielding . A book to the mi tempta ght be
tion The " just obj to cts finish to whi the ch chap women ter" devote of an their absorbing attention novel are . however
e , , The more descri sensible tion than iven they in the were / Specta in the tor e of arly the part " Amusements of the last century of the . g
Female World p , " applies , it is to be hoped , to but a small portion of it now . The writer , dating his letter March 12 th , 1710 , says , '' Their
amusements seem contrived for them rather as they are Women , than Sex than as they to the are Species reasonable The Creatures Toilet is ; th and eir great are more Scene adap of Business ted to the ,
. and their the lives rig . ht The adjusting sorting of of their a Suit Hair of the Ribbons principal is reckoned Employment a very of
else or good a all Toy Morning the -shop , 's so Work after great ; Their and a Fati if they gue make makes serious an them Occupations excursion unfit to for a anything Mercer Sewing ' s
and Embroidery Day , and . their sweetest more Drudgery the Prep are aration of Jellies and Sweet-meats . " . Eighty years after this was written , whose condition has
been women Wilberforce more . Formerl improve said , " y d There there witliin is seemed my no class recollection to of be persons nothing than that useful of unmarried in find which
they and object could in attending be to the naturall instruction to the y "busy poor , . of " but children This now , and they who devoting may would always tim otherwise e , thought be an , money
sunk in heathen darknessWilberforce characterized as " truly _magnificent , the really sublime , cts of in character . " ic Since character tlie to time which of
Wilberforce lish ladies , the have public devoted obje their a time philanthrop have vastlincreasedand Eng doubt with the greatest benefit to themselves and y to _tlie commu , -
no th nity at . the Here advance , then made , there in is this a decided direction gain will ; and so extend it is as to greatl be hoped y to
neutralize the unfavorable influences exercised by many of tlie grave errors of modern education . Women may be so educated as to rendered
have their minds strengthened , not weakened , without being offensively masculine . We are reminded of a scene £ 3 hicall in a Illustrates popular
this work remark of fiction . , Valentine " Valentine and Vox lais , " friend which Louise very gra are conversing y tod to
gether bidding strength , and defiance of the mind former to . Fate " Yes give "by , my s standin her dear some g , " er she e good ct , rep and lies advice with ,, " thi in a s b regar old mode front of
Insanity Among Women. 155
INSANITY AMONG WOMEN . 155
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1861, page 155, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051861/page/11/
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