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208 OUB AMERICAN SISTERS.
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? We Have Lately Received Froin America ...
galleries of art , and provision for scientific study ; all to be devoted to the use of " sweet girl graduates , " and of which ample mention
has already been made in our Journal . Book-keeping affords much employment to our sex on the other
side of the Atlantic . " Comer ' s Commercial College '' offers to instruct ladies on terms 20 per cent , lower than those made with
twelve gentlemen free , in scholarshi order to induce have them been to founded enter the to business which ; both and ps
sexes are admitted . "With all large commercial schools is now connected a separate department for ladiesand efforts are made
, by school the . princi A letter pals to from obtain Misses situations Mclntire for and their Kidder pupils as states they , " leave We
have been engaged in preparing ladies for book-keepers , saleswomen & cfor the last ten years . It was at first difficult for
ladies to , obtain , such situations , but as those who did succeed g'ave entire satisfactionothers were induced to give them a trial ; and
now ing they from are four very , to generall eiht y dollars employed in week our retail and a stores few , at on a terms still
hi s vary g s her he salary thinks . " The princi ladies g pal mi of ht a per mercantile obtain emp , college loyment in " as Brookl book yn - many g
keepers ay if they would only properly qualify themselves for the dutiesHe had six or seven lady pupils who are now employed
. as book-keepers in New York . In fact , this kind of employment is evidentlone to which American ladies are beginning to turn
their attentio y n with success . At one of the largest wholesale warehouses in Boston , the head corresponding clerk is a young *
womanwho writes a beautiful rapid hand , and fulfils the duties of the situation , to the complete satisfaction of her liberal employer ,
Another occupation rarely thought of in connexion with our sex is that of the druggist . Schools for giving instruction in the art
to del of form p preparing hia , a and class Miss medicines separate Penny , are believes instruction established that would if enoug in New be h g ladies iv York en them would and by Phila unite the
-, the professors apothecary of p ' s h department armacy . At is the entirel Woman y in the ' s in Infirmary hands attendance of , a New lad told y York . her At , Smith ' homoeopathic harmathe lad
that nearl s y the whole p of their cy , department y of business is in the hands of females . Men are employed to press the plants and
make tinctures , but the distilling of water and alcohol , the pulverizing and , stamp triturating ing , are and done diluting by women , cleaning . It requires vials medicines , corking neatness , The labelling , exact irls
when ness , and at work patience wear to clothes succeed that in will putting not up suffer from their . labour g , which is not the cleanest in the world . The proprietor of the
establishment writes , " We employ six ladies , and prefer them to menas their work is neater . We pay them from three dollars to
three , dollars and a half a week . " At a wholesale drug store they
208 Oub American Sisters.
208 OUB AMERICAN SISTERS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 208, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/64/
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