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opjen council. 285
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To The Jeditor Of The English Woman's Jo...
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reception spirit in which given b women y them deal to any with disp women lay of , and youthful , in particular energy and , of vitality the had , however _inojffensive , in persons of their own sex . There seems if to he a vague to the
opinion that so much health and strength ( especially extending the mind feeblest ) do not ever " become the foremost a young woman to extinguish , " and there the superfluous is a movement life forthwith , each one ,
doing her utmost to impart her , own sickly idiosyncrasy to the young girl whose iness and portion improvement , if she could in the but present have been and let usefulness alone , mi in g the ht have future been . _haj ) -
hopeful women p account The enervating , summon in irl a who great their has p degree hysical small the , misfortune for education remaining the strange , to which strength cross deli many g their ht to with prostrate of path the which sex These and feeble receive bind lean morbid every must kine
to have grow accustomed suit a nor their wonderful g thrive themselve peculiar on craving the taste s unnatural for , for want something better of repast better flesh to , than which but resources there their they . own must have We ; . be true can grown something , but they down hop neither e in tliat and it
something Custom better tooand will examp soon le be go found a great for them way . with the generality of people . [ Negroes , for , instance , , with the vices and incapacity to of the the other " white trasli if that "
full infinitel were in the their real view degradation mischievous , will still . Our be reputation calling way of " and going nigger self on " -respect one is something being similar of , as such , onl im y -
y more , must portance be to in some a position extent anomalous and where and the unascertained injuries to be as dreaded that of are women to the always mind
more Another than to cause the bod of y this . , limiting and crying-down is to be found in conwith the idea that vi
scientiouswell-intentioned ignorance , haunted gor simp for and the ori le g peop duties inality , le she to of believe has mind to must that perform a somehow woman . It seems is unfruitful or none other to the be an destroy worse hours impossibility for a woman preferring with for ' s crochet fitness these good
and books Berlin and wo leading olor articles in a series to as of many gossi _^ ping morning calls spent . But the better it informed not onl should in their , be dail promp life t and but severe in their with conversation this monster as delusion often as , opposing the opy
viction but portunity there not y occurs is altogether great . _occasion There in vain is to , no be occasion true and to steadfast be troublesome , holding or the pugnacious right con- ,
. suits Even and those found women the blessedness who are so of happy them as are to too have read fallen to on prescribe intellectual their pur own - y
particular unfeminine choice and as in the only one obj proper ectionable , for women But , as denouncing Miss Blackwell all the well others
reas marked andstrange , " "Woman as it differs may some appear from way woman , elegant , as ladies much , as do , man not differs always from love woman elegant , "
literature , some who are so passionately fond of flowers that one would suppose their the live gods , for had their surely made delectation them poetical But , it never was with read a great line of satisfaction poetry in
s own . that school we who heard is nick some -named time ago JEuclid of a young by her person companions at a very , because progressive of her _ladies predi- '
lection Hussian , for gentleman algebra . , who This , to _hapiDy excuse girl ' his s fate il dep is lorable a contrast waste faire to of that life , of made the poor _autc the
cartes remark . " , "II The ne human Jautpasparler mind is politi destroyed qiie wanton , when ny a interference Hen it is a limited que , Circumstances especiall dejouer y , it
must would be appear submitted , when to it but is limited it ill becomes by women deliberatel . y to vex and hinder one another . , Youth is the time for mistakesfor extremes and follies ;
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Opjen Council. 285
opjen council . 285
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 285, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/69/
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