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238 !LJVES FOR LEAVES.
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Pabt Ii. Having Adverted To Cases Of Suf...
for want benevolent of confidenc individuals e in superior in intelli building genc houses e , which to render smugg s it le necessary pure air
. blessing by means against of invisible opposition ventilators , from brown , and thus paper secure , , will , it the is to contraband be feared ,
render it necessary to force hydrate peroxide of iron down refractory Sorae throats few . days ago the writer visited a female of whose recovery
little hope was entertained . She was attended by Mr . Paul , and stated was taking that her this medicin loyer e had , —a heard brownish of the powder proposed , dry . antidote This person , and
emp iseemed to object—believing it to be of no use , <& c . The boon , instead of being hailed with gratitudeseemed likely to be frowned
• down . I feel as though I were taxing , the credit of the reader in this statement . Wellit does seem hard to believe that any
, endeavor employer to should enforce not upon gratefull his work y accep people t the such necessity a propo of sition availing , or
themselves of the antidote ; on the other hand , it is hard to believe that nothing a dy short ing woman of legal would prohibition lie . On can the effectuall it whole is to , it be y remed seems y p that lain the evil that this .
Mr . Paul is himself of this opinion , and hoped will follow as a consequence of the commissioned inquiry about to be instituted by Governmentand which will include in its
investi-, gation But the a long case time of the imist poor elapse leaf-worker before . the report of the
Conimis-. sioners be submitted , and longer still must it be ere any measures can come into operation which may be based upon it . Season after
season will pass away , and there will be the same havoc of health and life as before . One can hardly regard the necessity for
legislative interference otherwise than as a reflection upon the ladies of who this country must henceforth , and to them be responsible we would for especially the evils appeal resulting . It from is they the
noxious manufacture ; will they resist the fiat of Fashion ? Will they consent that life shall be sacrificed for leaves ? It matters not that
they To consent redress with this grievance pain and regret is peculiarl ; will y th and ey consent emphaticall at all y ? woman _' s
province Fashion . , and If common the cause sense may rebel thus against be stated the decrees —Humanit of the y latter versus ,
. we usually ignore common sense ; and there are not a few who , if required shrine , But might are be we prep Eng ared lish to women sacrifice so common entirely decency the slave at s this of
. Fashion that , if humanity stir within us , we must stifle it at her bidding Perhaps ?— there No . is no woman whoif she felt that the perpetuation
of this evil depended on her conduct , alone , would not abjure emerald green at once and for ever ; but what is most disheartening
at every call for common effort , is the tendency of most persons to . merge their individuality in the multitude ; and so , when hearty and
simultaneous co-operation is demanded , and would meet the case ,
238 !Ljves For Leaves.
238 ! LJVES FOR LEAVES .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1862, page 238, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061862/page/22/
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