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OUR AMERICAN SISTEBS. 205
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? We Have Lately Received Froin America ...
lias been estimated tliat _tliere are 95 , 000 _finales _earning a livelihood in New York Cityand its vicinitybesides those engaged in
domestic tended to pursuits benefit . -women . . , of . the My _3 _NTorth book is , South not , sectional Eastand ; " it West is in of
-, , this vast Republic . In the large cities of the North , most working women are acquainted with others , engaged in different occupations ,
and so may learn of places to be filled in them . In the South a small number of women have been dependent on their own
exersmallness tions , owing of immi to the gration existence of slave labour Connected , and the with comparative this
subject of protection , is a fervent and desire comfort on provided the part of in the our writer cities , for to respectable see houses Wealth
and industrious women when out of employment . "y benevolent each by the of our cities peop cities le in mi , which would ght build they be a them are refuge p , lanted and to appropriations . the Such many , a a structure home be 7 granted to , the in
oppressed After a , preface a sanctuary and to introduction the stranger , marked in a strange by sound land . sense ' , Miss Penny attacks her subject alphabetically , " *" with steadiness and
thoroug of country amanuenses , hness with , great and that we interest the pick blind ; out as historian when extracts she Prescott tells pertaining us , emp under loyed to the her female head own
scribes when composing , his great works , , " Ferdinan , d and Isabella , " & cUnder the head of Astronomersshe quotes a letter from
Miss . Maria Mitchell of Nantucket , Mass , ., who discovered a j ) lanet , and receivedin consequencea medal from the King' of Denmark .
This lady also , used to observe , for the Coast Survey , but was not officially recognized , and she computes for the Nautical Almanac ,
and is paid for her observations and reckoning the same salary as would be given to a man . Miss Mitchell writes as follows : " I know
of no lady-astronomers who are practical observers . Very good works have been written on the subject by women . An observing-room
is never warmed by a fire , and , as a small part , at least , of the roof must be opened to the airthe exposure is according to the
, weatheras the observations must be made in clear evenings . I do not consider , the danger to health great . . . My own
observatory is wholly a private affair , and supported entirely by my own meanswhich are my daily earnings as computor to the Nautical
Almanac , . I employ no assistant . " Under letter B , we have mention of the Bible-readers in
America , who are gradually being employed in the cities , as in England , under the superintendence of the author of the " Missing Link . "
Under the apparently unpromising head of Bankers , we are reminded that the idea of a savings ' -bank was originated by our
countrywoman , Mrs . Priscilla Wakefield , and told that a banking-house was , a few years since , conducted by a widow lady in Tennessee ,
and another employed in a savings ' -bank at Boston . Letter C
Our American Sistebs. 205
OUR AMERICAN SISTEBS . 205
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 205, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/61/
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