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To The Editors Of The English Womarts Jo...
stantly the ranks of struggling workers are swelled by the orphan daughters of those whose income for the most part dies with them , naval and military
men women , clergymen to presum , and e that others they . It who is , in have truth been , paying car too efull hi y gh shut a comp out liment from all to means of preparing themselves for it can suddenly , perhaps in middle age ,
upon the death of parents who have neglected in their zeal for the _advancement of their sons to secure a decent provision for their daughters , go forth into the world and gain their own livelihood $ delicate womenwho miht
, g in some their honest youth and , and honorable under the emp shelter loyment of which a parent would ' s roof have , have developed been taug their ht dormant faculties and prevented time hanging heavilupon their handswhile
it prepared them to face a very probable hereafter y . These women , are obliged , with failing hearts and trembling lirabs , to begin the battle of life ; and thoseGod bless them ! who do not fall at oncemust fiht on wearily
into old age , , long after brothers and nephews , encumbered , with g ties of their own , and therefore unable to help them , have found and secured their vantage-ground .
For such women there is little hope in this life ; they may apply to themselves the words of the unjust steward , "I cannot dig , to beg I am ashamed , " —and they may remember that rest comes at last even to the utterly weary
and broken-hearted . But to the young , and those now entering into life , there is a bright future opening ; they have but to avail themselves of the many advantages now
endowed offered to , to them cherish , and also while " the using ornament the facultie of s a w meek ith which and quiet they sp have irit , been " to burdens prove to the world menbut that their women hel were -meets intended . to be , not playthings for , or uponp
, , Some remarks lately made before me upon the much vexed " woman question , " have induced me to trouble I am you , [ Ladies with , yours this lett respectfull er , y ,
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PUBLIC AND POLITICAL . The all absorbing topic of the month has been the sudden death of Count
Cavour , whose rapid and severe illness was , according to modern ideas of man medical who science was moulded , fatally aggravated on the Eng b lish y repeated typeand bleeding had passed . Thi many s great years states in
-England , , aimed at creating in Italy the general , results of our form of civilization . A political economist , a lover of agriculture , a thinker who could meet Peel or GuizotCobden or Michel Chevalier on their own levelhe was
precisely the man whose , loss Italy can least replace . Standing as , he did , mid-way between the Catholics and the Mazzinians , his death has left the future of his country a problem whose result it is no longer possible to
predicate . In America the preparations for war are continued with unabated activity . We have received information that a "Women ' s Central Association of Relief
for the _Army " has been organized at New York . Dr . Elizabeth Blackwell ' s name is at the head of the committee for the registration of nurses ; Dr . Bellew ' s at that of the executive committee . According to the prospectus
women which we working have received in concert , each ; and branch a statement of the work has is been conducted received by from men and the chief medical bureaux of the army , to the effect that the plans now in
progress , under the direction of the association and the hospitals of New York ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 356, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/68/
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