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218 who's to blame.
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This Question Is Invariably Asked, Whene...
is easilbrokenbut tied together their strength is increased to the point of y resistance of moral , . amendment in generalor of changes in many
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appear efficient number of women , fit and capable of undertaking thean duties of the old of domestic school / ' sa service ys som . e " _iinforfrunate I wish I could mistress meet , in with sad perp a servant lexity
equall about y a housemaid embarrassed who mother will not wonders soil her where whit thoug e hands htful , while nursemaids another and
extrav are to agant be found serv . ants In are short endless , complaints . _ISTot on longer the the score b difficult ack of than careless becomes a few remarked to that each _,
days greater , one a , lad and competent y she feared to that do us household shortly it would work year . be _leather impossible a y puzzling to find
any rosect for housewives to encounter , we must confess , and to throw p what p little lig the ht we can on the cause of restoring of the house defects -serv in ice domestics to the _*
true now felt and , honourable and probable place means it ought to hold in the scale of labour ,, will " be the aim that of thi the s short laints paper . are well founded , otherwise they We assume comp
mischievous th would at mere not be lass results so general tag Seeing onism , and , then which that that they is now the rest evil and on comp then something lained productive of beyond is not of
fift as we have and remarked contrast . of the mushroom present growth condition , we of must our go servants back s with ome _, years
what and y consequentl it was , at that of habits period was when comparativel the refining y speakin process g of onl manners y in its > _,,
infancy shall . be It enabled is rather y to a long lace , leap the subject to take more backwards clearl , y but before by so us doing , and - . we p
fro _ITift experience m the survey thrown since be neither upon better mistresses facts prepared as they nor to view their now it servants present by the li looke themselves ght d of upon past _- _,
house machinery over y they - years work had had with not ten , the invaded times contemp as private much t now to dwellings so perform generall to , y for exhibited the in extent those ; which more days - ;
it now doesand no steam or gaseous fairies , or tube-whisperingelvessaved , the hands and feet of home workers . Our grand what
mothers , rose with the dawnand not merely gave orders as to was hands to be done and saw by their with , maidens their own , but eyes hel that ped them their with commands their own
were sidered punctuall the , proper y obeyed occupation herself and to promp of domestic every tly woman executed work who not . It had pretending was a household then con that
to she rule considere , to attend d it beneath her dignity , or that , idleness was the
distinctive badge of lady ism .
218 Who's To Blame.
218 who ' s to blame .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page 218, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/2/
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