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832 FEMALE INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENTS
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XLVIIL—FEMALE INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENTS IN"
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occupations for which , they are "well fitted . We would earnestly exhort them all to believe that what it is possible for _young men
to attain by persevering self-culture , is , in almost every case , possible for them . The Society grants certificates of three kinds for
bookkeeping for instance . How can any pretend that they are , as we believe them to be , as well fitted by nature for the counting-house
as men are , if no woman throughout the kingdom can win this honor ? By the Society's decision there is nothing to prevent a
small institution exclusively of women being formed in any town in the "United Kingdom for evening classes , and sending any
number of their members to the local board . No time , indeed , is to be lost in rendering secure the privilege obtained . Members of
the Society , to our knowledge _^ already talk of a probable necessity for rescinding the resolution ; and the momentary failure will
doubtless be seized upon for an argument . " We have , indeed , already heard many objections raised by well-meaningbut mistaken
, persons against the system . It is a favorite theory with those who have the faculty of shutting their eyes to proved facts
and undeniable figures , that no woman should be educated save with constant reference to domestic life . This has been answered
so often and so conclusively , that we cannot hope to make any impression upon those who still hold this opinion . While
threefourths of the adult unmarried _"women of Great Britain , and twothirds of the widowed are , as appears by the last census , actually
engaged in earning their living by independent labor , it is in vain to talk of whether we shall fit Women by education for anything
but domestic duties . By refusing so to fit them , we do not give homes to the widowed , or domestic duties to the unmarried , or
relieve them in any way from the burden of supporting themselves . We simply condemn them to the lowest class of laborand the
, poorest earnings . We do not , indeed , exempt them from the battle of lifebut send them to a fiercer and more dreadful strifewhere
, , every hour some faint and perish , and many fall back , and are for ever lost . For them we see in these examinations some little
gleam of hope .
832 Female Industrial Employments
832 FEMALE INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENTS
Xlviil—Female Industrial Employments In"
XLVIIL—FEMALE INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENTS IN " THE SOUTH OF IRELAND .
. ^P Withik The Last Ten Years A Vast Ch...
. _^ p Withik the last ten years a vast change has taken place in the
industrial employments of females in the south and west of Ireland . The famine which , in the year 1847 , desolated these parts of the
island , apparently crushing all human energies , was in reality , its greatest boon ; for from its ravishing hand , sprung forth the germ
of a healthy and vigorous life , amongst those of the population , who
survived its devastations ; just as from the decayed grain shoots
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1858, page 332, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071858/page/44/
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