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    338 FEMALE INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENTS.

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    these on questioning stles of , work tlie mothers he will of find those her girls acknowled who are ge emp with loyed gratitude in any of ,

    domesticity that they y are and now that kep , their t from earnings idleness small and have thoug consequentl h they be , y are learnt of

    great we know value to , to be her facts , and a and comfort those to who , themselves would not . teach These a statements girl fancy

    ;with work it , seem It to was forget no doubt that all as the age well progresses in the days , we of must our progress

    grandmothers . to instruct their daug very hters in spinning , -weaving , and knitting , , but the loom has superseded the use of these

    employments in the present day ; and therefore , we can only weave now in Therefore romance , and do we spin wish in good an old speed ballad to . all female industry , no matter

    of what class it be , only regretting that it is not better paid for , for and hi feeling gher and assured more that profitable in time pursuits females , than will show they have their yet capabilities attained

    to . manufac [ It is , ture however of knitted , very stockings greatly to has be so regretted far declined that ; and the we domestic believe

    sale that would if a receiving be obtained shop were for such set on articles foot by for ladies both in sexes London . They , a read are y manufac

    more durable and wholesome for winter wear than goods - tured _classes hj in machinery favor of ; thick and a re wo -action ollen having etticoats set and in among Shetland the upper hose , p

    the advantage stockings , mig being ht be collected taken of in the Ireland new fashion from to the found cottage such homes a depot of , the makers ban association of ladies extending over the country .

    y The dwellings gathering into of course one together large building of marke those d , under who economical once the rule worked advantages of a in steam their ; -eng but own ine so , very

    grave possesses are irls , the that resultant the , organization evils to the of health new , p in lans the b case y intelli of women gent ladies and young is a chance g , of which we will not despair . Women versus political

    hopeless economy ; ; for —such the exertions a sentence of has the a upper hopeless , by which sound , we yet mean it is the not of

    educatedclass of femaleswould be a new element in commerce , which Mr , . John Stuart Mill , would be the first to approve , and whose calculation

    results he would admit to be , at present , beyond . Now _1 pairs } he nullity manual of hands in labor commerce ;—th of e women moral As the supervision is lad absorbed y sat of among women by the her hundred has spinning become thousand maidens almost

    a . in the olden time , so should of she the now worker , in some in the way vortex , adapt of her modern

    guardian energies to the welfare trade . Ed . }

    \ November , 1857 . -

    338 Female Industrial Employments.

    338 FEMALE _INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENTS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1858, page 338, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071858/page/50/