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236 LIVES FOR LEAVES.
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Pabt Ii. Having Adverted To Cases Of Suf...
_craving are perpetuall seems y to empt be , y _" ing Give and us . rep water lenishing , or els , e the we g die irls . " rising The p in itcher turn s
and applying the grateful beverage to the lips of their companions , and It thus may a be quenchless supposed thirst that the is unceasing power fail of ly endurance appeased and then . so cruell hand y will and
constantl falterand y taxed a head will will sometimes droop . In . such Now case the chin a -cloth is , irl carried outinstances of this kind
removed are of dail , and occurrence the fainting and g it is no uncommon : thing for warehouse assistants y & cto pick , their steps hurriedly by corpse-like forms
lying about , on , the stairs or landing , or where else they have been left This , till sketch they should is from " the come life to . . " No mere supposition or imagination
lishments has suggested there it , mi and ht yet be , if found applied some to sli each ght and discrepancy all of these . Just estab as - g
several flowers , from one root vary in form and development , so our descri such p variations tion might have fail to reference correspond onl exactl to y minor with every and unimportant other . But
which details is : sometimes as , for examp effected le , the b mode one long of y towel muffing ; or the which head sometimes and face ,
resembles that in which female y "dry hands" oil pumice stone protect themselves , amid a cloud of dust , in which it seems strange
that live and they breathe can live when and breathe the atmosp , till here we remember is charged that with a arsenic woman . can of
There is nothing more surely calculated to injure the cause any and hardshi class of sufferers These , than may exaggerated excite sympath statement y in an s increased of their degree wrongs ,
. average but the truth at ps which will . tran a correct spire , and and that candid sympath representation y will fall mi below ght have the that flowermakers
_sustained it . It is right therefore to explain , - ments have many of trade and . great Unlike advantages the thousands over in their our sisters Cithouses in other who depart work - y
_expressed maker from morning , has it generall , " work to y nig proper from ht under ni season ght lock to s of morning and rest key and besides , refreshment and welcome , who " the , . as flower With one
the generality of tradeswomen , a walk at noon , the change of the dinner hourwould be deemed a luxury indeed . And , then they break off entirelfor tea—a circumstance which will
. not appear be aware trivial , that or as there a matter are y Cit of y course warehouses , perhaps and , to some sweaters who ' dens may
especially , where a female never rises from her , seat or puts aside her task for such . Whit is that flower-makers have
_ihese understand privileges any but above the purpose rule most as other stated in y -door above workwomen ears to , I have do not no app
; , , _exception And the . rate of remunerationtoois high—higher probably than
prevails in any other class of female , , operatives . Indeed , few things
_appear at first . sight more enigmatical than the position of these
236 Lives For Leaves.
236 LIVES FOR LEAVES .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1862, page 236, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061862/page/20/
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