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340 THE WORKING OF THE NEW DIVORCE BIIX.
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perty , leaving the destitute wife in no condition to proceed by suit . This being amended , as it no doubt will is be , the encouragement miti to swindling Sill
marand riages vain , created men will under still the be old victims law , of very adventurers greatly but gated the wholesale . y women incitewhich ment to the swindlers victim cannot to pillage the from industrious though h the y means thief , can of the play conj fast ugal and yoke loose ,
with itis now reduced to escape something , very small . of The abuses new , . law The cannot enactments but operate framed well to meet in regard this class to the of wife offences -beating have order not in the in
fliction wrought of so special well as punishment their authors for expected special violence . There which was could nothing meet the worst - laboring evil of wife class -beating It was —the so premium obviouswhen on concubinage attention was over once matrimony turned full in the on
this order of offences . that the wife , ' s case was hopeless , while the mistress could take care of herself , that the effect on social morality was disastrous . The wife is usually unwilling , to accept the protection of of the law and , because because
she she and dreads her her children husband cannot ' s vengeance maintain when themselves he comes without out prison his leave , whereas a can the judicial mistress get prote separation is ction free for at after her any earnings moment a certain , . after _Now amount a that certain of , under cruelty amount the , the new of brutal desertion law ; , the order , wife and of wife than
Husbands over a concub will ine find . It that will they be have a matter very of little some more interest power now over to see a whether more the now Irish brute . zealously laborers Their -husb priests become and than understands ever have even , with always more the to consp impressed mean indissoluble icuous the eternal them as character wife , and slavery -beaters do of so marriage of now than his , probabl wife they , which . are y It ,
valence has always of this been kind surprising of violence to observers a that class the who priests are understood permit so wide to confess a preamong lessand it
to will them be interesting , and to be to under observe their whether spiritual the guardianshi Irish poor in p , more our great or towns ; avail themselves in any degree of the new law , and whether they become even
more The notorious benefit which than at may present hereafter for personal be seen violence to be . the greatest of all those which cal recognition are accruing of women under the as " reform bread- of winners our marriage " "We law men is the are full the , practi bread - -
. winner artists , s operative , " we hear s , dressmakers said , not seldom , shop , ke in ep the ers , face authors of all , and the domestics female teachers in the , United Kingdom . " We men are the bread-winners , " say the
sentithoug mentalists h female , who earnings are ashamed usually of drop their into female men's relatives pockets . appearing But the to fact work is , , of and the has women long been of the , that kingdom a vast work proportion for their —some bread say , nineteenth though our -twentieths laws remain
nearl applicable to women a very was different maintained state b of husband society , to father a social mother state or in kinsman which . _property The new y every _acquire law of d separation from other protects sources the : y and industry the long , of the , wife of cases , as , well of efficient as her
array workers industry alread and to y animate disclosed women , ought to to work impress bthe men incitement with respect of for women leand as the new , comfort of legal protection for their y _earnings and their efforts examp to e , arn .
freedom Though of we industry have , never to educational objected to advantages the discussion of every of women land , ' s and claims to all to we rights have which always they held can that prove the themselves onlmethod able of to progression fulfil in the in form women of ' s duties case *
as in all others , is by showing what y they can do—by urging their claims in , to the work shape for of their acheivement own and . their _JSTo a children priori ' proposition s maintenance to enable would ever deserted have wive suc s -
ceeded without ; and result the whole : but move the fact would that hundreds have been of laug deserted hed down wives , or do wrang actuall led oyer y
340 The Working Of The New Divorce Biix.
340 THE WORKING OF THE NEW DIVORCE BIIX .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1858, page 340, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071858/page/52/
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