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WOMEN AND COMMERCE. 293
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* The October Follo , In Sent Wing To La...
incre any M thing . asing Horn but " extension agreed progress full of in y the with the co , labor the -operation honorabl of women of e the M ; . that W weaker olow is to sk half i say in , of seeing in the the
human more or race less in exclusivel the productive y , of the activit stronger y w _^ hich half seenis . He to regarded be the this lot ,
necessity societalso as of a which misfortune the famil for y the is the famil foundation y , and , . con Far sequen from tly b , eing for
willing woman y to in develop , certain still ranks further of society this tendency , the fellow of the -laborer age , which of man makes , he ,
thought , it necessary to combat it , to restrain it , to restore woman to much her natural duties to / the the moral strict development accomplishment , and of even which the mat is of erial so consequence
well-being of society . . Neither was it of married women alone that _JVI . Horn was thinking " , in numb speaking * of iof the labor dail of increasing women . who He
had " above allin view the er women , y , were , obliged , to provide for their own maintenanc first lace e , to irls often whose for
that of : a family ; he referred , in the . p , g parents to unmarried could not mothers support widows them j or deserted who no wives longer & possessed c . " Whether any ;
lamentable or not , the , fact is there , , with its inexorable , necessity ; have thousands at the upon present thousands day no of other persons means belong of subsistence ing to the than female small those sex
remuneration which they procure that this by their labor own can labor command . Every in the one present knows the day , and this
it would be difficult to dispute that one of the causes of depreciation is owing to the small number of employments which open to women
believed in the present to be capable , day . are The inundated few kinds with conditions of labor their for competition which they , be which im are
naturall emp posed loyments upon y forces them which women . women There to accep are could , t however any not onl , y a do number as well of as may productive men , but - there
which enter more into their functions than those of men . Is not in strong measuring something and vigorous calico revoltin , by in g the and hundreds yard unnatural in , passin fashionable in seeing g their tall shops days strapp in and folding ing their fellows and life ,
, _xe chasers -folding when handkerchiefs their sisters , in , perhaps trying even on shawls their mothers and mantles , are emaciat to pur-
ing damp themselves and , unwholesome by workin fabrics g twelve , which or fourteen , in general hour , are s a day as prejudi le among that - -
cial the morall making y as of p dresses hysicall , y boots ? "Who and would shoes , dispute & c , for , for women examp would There , be- -.:,
much have endeavors been more have alread suitable been y , cited made in every various in respect other , laces to kinds women of late of than years labor men , to into introduce ? which - many p
in women can this do respect , much and with to ; and aid comp public these lete efforts op success inion which , ; the there press assuredl remains , and y Political will much raise more Economy one to do of * / _,
the most effectual barriers against , the increase of that number >
Women And Commerce. 293
WOMEN AND COMMERCE . 293
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 293, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/5/
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