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SCIENCE FOR, WOMEN. 153
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One Of The Chief Points Of Good Husbandr...
temporary too costlto loan be at ordinaril home , or tlie chased use on the such premises as superior , of apparatus electrical y pur
y , machinery The mention or optical of the instruments latter leads . the attention to another branch
of science peculiarly adapted to women , viz ., microscopical _investig obj ations ect- . lass The seems importance now to of be these becoming can hardl more y and be over more -rated the , court for the of
g final appeal in settling- the most serious questions , and deciding * the most difficult cases ; and well may it be so , for this is indeed a true
the ing supernatur trial Omniscient natural by ordeal al laws interference , Heaven alone . Secrets could itself , but , which know bearing by the it are mi regular witness by ght that wel action l in little have the lens of been cause its laid , thoug unvary not bare by ht
to every eye ; and not only at its , powerful bidding does the slain victim speak from the to reveal the hand that slew , and
it stamp detects a Cain each -mark trace on of very the poison murderer grave and each ' s brow stain , as of with blood fearful , but accuracy it takes
cognizance too of all the minor mysteries of crime , whether of fraud or violence . Even when the evidence it furnishes is very indirect ,
it is often no less conclusiveas when two or three years ago the contents of a barrel of coin , were stolen during their transit on a
Prussian railway , and the barrel filled up with sand , by submitting the soil of each station to microscopical analysis it was discovered
at which the sand had been procured , and traced thus far , the criminal was soon identified as one of the officials enrployed at that
in part The our of mustard part the , line too . , and which the it lime has -white played in in our bring flour ing and to li the ght thousand the flour
other knaveries , daily practised on our daily food , , might alone suffice to commend it to _general attentionand introduce it into female
domestic life . The mistress of a famil , y would scarcely consider herself a good _hoiisekeeper if she had no means of testing whether
her meat or her tea and sugar were as heavy as her butcher * s and 's billsbut how minor an evil is shortweight compared to
grocer ; adulteration—the former only cheats our purse , the latter may rob us of more precious and irrecoverable health , or , as the
Bradford tragedy showed with such fatal significance , even of life itself . Yet how little safeguard have we against it ! The costliest
system of paid _insjDectors , the most constant excise visitation , would hardly suffice to guard effectually against such fatal frauds ; but let
it only be as common for a lady to have a microscope in her parlor perforce as to have become a pair once of more scales the in policy her of kitchen our constitutions traders , and , honest to the y of b would enefit their
customers of their . own Nor souls to , food and alone the pockets would it and apply , for the linendraper
glass or mig _" ht all , would vainl silk y , " at attemp when once a t expose to pattern palm the , off submitted cottony flimsy mixtures fibre to the of unerring which as " real they 1 test merino are of half the "
Science For, Women. 153
SCIENCE FOR , WOMEN . 153
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1862, page 153, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051862/page/9/
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