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\ WOMEN AND COMMERCE. 295
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Courtois M . _Honisr and , contrary in agreement to tlie with opinion that of of M MM . Wolowski . Dunoyer , believed , Coq that and
the labor , of women in manufactures ,, that the labor of married women above alldoes not sensibly augment the material _resoiirces
of the family , in , consequence of the inexorable law of supply and ration rate demand of is . always The competition less real than depression that on of a large men But , scale must while of exercise women deploring upon _, whose the a remune state general of
wages a . factures _things which or other forces occupations mothers of just families as little by _thoiisands compatible into with manu their - in the
constitution and their dutiesM . Horn did not partake sli speakers ghtest degree who had in the preceded fear just him , adverted , namely to , that loj one in of furnishing the honorable to sub a
g sistence irl the she means would of providing be forcibl honestl induced y and to continue easily for her her productive own - y
lab M or Horn at , a believed later period rather during that marriage a woman , in -would the midst be more of her likel famil y y to .
lead pendence . a happ as ier a young married woman life . for It having was precisel possessed y because more that g real irls could
indeonl obli y ged provide , so to so speak scantil , to y throw for their themselves own subsistence into the arms of they the were first liked to
suitor impose , . and When to accept , on the the contrary hardest , the conditions young daug that hter any , one the orphan ,
or hon bo sa the orable she widow c could ompetence , could refuse , maintain she to could herself then unless , make and allowed even her to own realize fulfil terms in a , the certain that first is marry
y , place MJoseph the duties Garnteh of the mother believed of that a famil he y should . be able to reconcile ,
in M part . "Wolowski , the opinion had s onl which been had able _jiist been to icture expressed an . ideal condition , p
vhose . realization would y necessitate the bestowal upon all the young _vomen _? asy competence of a dowry , sometimes sufficient to of enable a too leisurely them to live character in a condition . The fact of
that the massesmarried womenwidows , and spinsters , vas ) f all , among s were obliged to , sell their labor in , order to live . Work
lecessity s of necessity age in the universal middle classes in the lower The classes question , and then of almost reduces universal itself to
hould his point be , instructed if having in to the work least , the . or female hihest work _j > ossible people degree and emp ; and loyers if , g
rade or examp to learn le , it methodicall _was useful y or , or not by for routine a young , accounts woman , book destined -keeping to ,
_, nd other , acquirements necessary in her position ? To put such _questions in words is to resolve them better . that should have
If women want to workis it they a arger or a smaller number , of professions open to them ? Solution
> dnds quall According y of easy work . to on M account . Joseph of Garnier their p , h if ysical women weakness are not , the fitted conditions for all
\ Women And Commerce. 295
\ WOMEN AND COMMERCE . 295
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 295, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/7/
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