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220 who's to blame.
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This Question Is Invariably Asked, Whene...
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want with those of of a limits higher their grade adherence to y ; the " pomps nothing and vanities money is the standard bwhich judof
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than purer suppose those and , of less the tainted mistresses by the they love serve of ? show The farmer and outward ' s wife disp of yore lay if
never money dreamt is in her of rivalling husband in ' s pocket dress the , or lad in y her of the own manor , she ; not now onl , y
who dresses has as a finel thousand y , but perhaps claims even more her income expensivel in the y , than poor the on lad her y upon
self estate -denial , and for who the perhaps good still of others practises . So the it almost is with obs the olete wives virtue and of richladorned
daughters of tradespeople : they also must be as y as want the hi of ghest gold in or the of credit land— ; and in short therefore their , there , having is no the limitation in ex dress ample , and excep given in t
them contempt on all of hands work , ; servants they also copy wish * to have employers soft white hands , , and look " genteel" They observe that their superiors reverence
.. . . to nothing spend excep on personal t money adornment —and neither , and do to they do as . little To obtain amount high of wage work s
them as possible the , lesson is the modern and now code of the our fruit domestics of our . We instruction have tau . ght It reap
invariabl appears y as imitates if we , must the hi reform gher class ourselves , by degrees , and then our as murmurs reform the lower ation of will reach those against whom are now heard so many
discontent . waste Among encouraged the evils and comp acted lained on by of servants by mistresses ; and Is certainl the ex y travagant this is a middle class
serious matteras the incomes of many families in the vants ( to whom more our careful , remarks and chiefl conscientious y apply ) in would their go stewardshi farther were p of ser the - in the
articles committed to their care . But here again come p manners licity of life of , the being age . held Neither w _$ as of reli more gion value , nor than philosop material hy , nor wealth sim- , estimate their mistresses
just view the natural to . the They degree sequence are a their quick follows expenditur race , that , and servants e hearing reaches , in as the they stricken money too frequently point ised of
do hearhow the rich are praised , and the poverty-desp , they of and St . do James , lect not it feel with . it Then regard incumbent as to to the their upon poor want them , when of to method their follow mistresses the and admonition precision forget ,
no one neg has given them , proper training , an idea having taken
220 Who's To Blame.
220 who ' s to blame .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page 220, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/4/
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