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178 THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT
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—?- — The Educated World Seems To Be Div...
proyida _, for _ _' _& ose ' ; pf _^ s . _'OT _^^ _koTiselipld ' was " worse than a heathen . " The ' means by which someat leastof the " ragged hoiaes "
have-, , _Bepii repaired , was hy inducing the husbands to frequent a " "Work-; _inan ' s Hal _£ " _opened a year ago . This Hall is , in facta
public-, _" nuinbe house _^ without spirits- where the of two memb pence ers , a three -week , hundred cc access in to
' the cofee-rooixi _^ with refreshments at moderate prices ; to the read-* of _ing-rpom ' good , / with _library d _^ y for ' Vand one ; . wiBekl 3 r _'' papers month , magazines to amusements , & c , and _^ - ise — _-
a , , penny per ; . (< draughts a _lectjUre , " ? p bn _liessi _' _! _ftiesday " _^ I _^ agate evenings _^ e , doininbes feadinLg , Sec . ¦ % ¦; to writing a -smoking and arithmetic -room ; to
, . ' ' tlie elasses ' _priviresce 5 yclean of rponis _infeoducihff _, good ' fires a < friend , gas- once lights a , -week sober . compani This is on usually s , and
considered 1 til consequence a ' good of twp this -pen institetioii _^ wortn . . the public-houses in the
neih-, g bourhood have lost almost all their custom . One publican . comlained ' _mat' _\^< l _^ ii 6 _^ _Ua _£ e * _'jB 2 a-week the wife of another said
p : _^ e ; , : _¦ ' iimes c ; GDhere don ' ] l _^ 't geti better . " bread To which ' .. and the water wife out of of one the of trade the -workmen soon , if
_replied , '' These is the times we likes . " The "Workman ' s Hall is _^ elf-supportingand in a fair way to pay off building it .
. A . ; _great work , is here effected . It is no small thing to have rescued three hundred men from vice , and three hundred families
from misery ; but it is much more to have established a plan whichx £ generally followed out , may lead to the reformation of
thousands , of workmen , and perhaps _j _> _rove a check to a habit which is _rabidly demoralizing bur whole working population .
But , interesting as this little book is , it yet contains some statements with which few will agree . Mrs . Bayley says , at page 62 .:
—"I do entirely differ from those who are continually telling us wewant more work for women to do—I mean for poor women . In any
locality where work is abundant for women , the greatest amount of wretchedness , vice , and immorality , is sure to be found . " And
again :- — " Kind-hearted ladies , who may have no opportunity of looking further , than the surface , take wp the cry , and they repeat ,
— 'Oh they , if we are could so badl but y off find ] 9 " work for the women in our district to do
It would seem , from these and other passages , that the author has confused together two very different subjects . Our working
women are suffering from two causes . One hardship is , that the * married women , instead of being supported , as they ought to be ,
by " their husbands , are obliged , at least in part , to earn their own and their children ' s bread . The other is , that single women find
it difficult to obtain employment at sufficient wages to enable them to live in any decency or comfort ; and * this last evil seems to have
altogether escaped Mrs . _Bayley's attention . Indeed , so completely
Jias she overlooked it , that she actually proposes to establish a clia-
178 The Temperance Movement
178 THE _TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 178, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/34/
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