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AND WORKING WOMEN. 179
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—?- — The Educated World Seems To Be Div...
ritable work and , iron on laundry had , the in known princi order , by p subscri le that how that women much p female tion , where may labour demoralizing be men is effectuall may demoralizing be y t is aug relieved the ht -. to want If wash from Mrs of .
Bayley more , point emp The loyment : —• report _" Owing , she of would to the the never Midni consumption g have ht th Mission made at of there men this is in suggestion very the thousands army strong . and of on navy this ; ,
b men y emi whose gration masters , and would by the dismiss fact them if they are married , there shop were - found at the last census 1400000 women , between the ages of
twenty and forty , unmarried , . Servant , s out of place swell the ranks of the fallen . In fact , poverty has much to do as an occasion , if thousands of
not a causeof the first _steix downwards . They see their sex on , the streetsgaudily attired and apparently prosperous
while We they cannot are wonder cold , and that , hunger it should -bitten be , so an , d when in rags we . " remember that ,
thirtthousand needle-wonienin London alone , earn no more than from y 10 c ? . to 5 d . a-day at slop- , work , out of which they have to find
thread . be Many loyed of these in the poor charitable half-starved laundry creatures and such would emp be loyment _thankfuT would to
be emp the saving of them from misery , and temptation . Is it not , thena mistake to teach men to do this work ? Is it not a mistake ,
tooas , concerns the men ? "Would not a stout young * fellow be happ , ier in the colonies , earning good he could wages , and engaged be in some
washing man It ly is , an out machine error -of-doors to or bending work , that than over the an movement ironing possibl -boar for d y the ? emp turning loyment a suppose
of women is in any degree antagonistic to that for improving the home comforts of the poor . of has
rage The d the Societ emp y loyment for the of Emp the loyment wives of working Women men . Its never assistance encounow has been and g then iven onl to y some to sing married le women woman , widows of , deserted higher position wives , and , or ,
whose husband , was in bad health . The two movements , far from induced being antagonistic to support , their actuall wive y hel s p and each families other , . a If large men sup could 2 _Dly be of
married female workers now unnaturally forced into the labourmarketwould be withdrawnand in consequence , the amount of
employment , for single women , would be greatly increased , which would cause their rate of payment to rise .
Thus , those concerned in the prosperity of single wonien look the with homes deep interest of the at the efforts and most of those cordiall who are wish striving them * to success mend - y
Per contra , a self-respecting poor , , wen-conducted girl , who had supported sober wife herself than creditabl some y , would creature be who more had likel been y to living make in a a neat state , poor
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And Working Women. 179
AND WORKING WOMEN . 179
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 179, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/35/
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