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matrimony _prehensive would expression not possess - —marriageable a fund of enticing age , with interest whom ? { Even the if subject they were of
procurable siderable portion , their of eli their gibility womanl might y instincts be doubted before . Women they cease must to lose 1 desire a con the - in conversion tc East L of their / ' introduces single loneliness her readers into married to a cleverl blessedness y-drawn . portrait Mrs . Wood of a ,
starched maiden ynn who regarded matrimony as little short of a sin . But Miss _Carny is of generally unamiable tendencies , and we doubt whether even the Argus would approve a load of immigrants of her stamp . Perhaps if mere
protestations avoiding female would s such satisfy as Tennyson him , he would describes be better in his contented u _OPrincess with , " but marriage , alas - ! their resolution was of an ephemeral nature .
how against Setting it Miss is aside fair R ; ye to their seem blame tendency s to this break lad to y down matrimony because . We her , the leave charges rest it of to possess itself the Argus to instincts exp ' s case lain
with common which , with he few refers exceptions to _Dunedin , to is all also womanhood not worth . noticing The flippant . He impertinence surely must have penned forgotten the following that a paragrap journalist h as should an exp write lanation like of a gentleman the indifference , when with he _,
which the ladies of Otago received Miss Rye : — - " The sudden arrival of a hundred young women bent upon a mission to correct the sexual inequalities womankind of Otago , was . " doubtless We are sure a little the too " local much womankind for the magnanimity " will smile at of the the ill- local bred
Miss solecism R , and did indeed we not we conceive should that neither the have whole noticed tenour it of nor the the article remarks mi on ht undesirabl ye , y prejudice a very important subject . g
No doubt Miss Rye ' s experiment is looked upon at home with considerable of the interest Argus , , and mig so ht fli lead ppant to more a treatment injurious of inferences it in a journal than of the the article standin itself g
would on the warrant contrary . , we But think in truth she , has Miss seen Rye sufficient has no cause to justif to y be her disheartened in prosecu- ; immi ting the grants cause in the she colonies has undertaken therecan . be That no question there is a and great it is _wani equall of y certain female
that the sexual disproportion of , the home population , is on the opposite side . Female immigration from home is a result that sooner or later must naturally follow on the numerical predominance of that sex ; the only question is
whether it is not for the interest of the colony that immigration should be controlled . Miss Rye ' s principle is , that it is essentially important to and a in young the objections country that which its female the Argus immigrant raises s should against be her of good j ) la » , s character , it seems ;
to us that it virtually contends for indiscriminate female immigration . Although Miss Rye may not have met with much success in Otago , yet Moved that b very the p scarcity lace- supplies of female a telling labour argument the provincial in favour council of her some plans time .
y , , on back the voted characters a sum of of those money who for came female out unselected immigration b . Mis Without s Rit reflecting must be * evidentthatmakinit her business to communicate y with women ye , desiring
to immigrate ; , she is g in a better position to furnish desirable persons than shipp rform ing or their oth , duties er agents . If would the selection be , no of matter all the how female zealousl immi y grants they mi ght
have pe been assisted out by the provincial government _* had been left to Miss ha Rye nds , there But is the no reason immigrants to think themselves the choice would would have have been suffered in a in better her
would position . have , ; in had stead some of be one ing hopelessl look after y at their the m interest ercy of the Althoug government h a gov , < they ern ~
It ment must pays or the ht passages to rememb of er im that migrant the immi s , its grants duties are should strangers not in a strange there . oug
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page 267, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/51/
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