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OPEN COUNCIL. 425
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-*&*• To The Jeditor Of The English Woma...
_Tv ' e will make here no remark upon , the female follies of red trousers , viding in ci _^ gars x _^ uh , lic ourselves hai p r laces divided ; and these on have one children side nothing , jotes wi to th in do dail elections with bread the , or serious th or relieving rig s ubject t of speaking our of hus pro-
bands , fathers , and bro our thers from the dread y of what , will become of us mo ¦ when ther d and eprived daugh of ters their having care . their " Would _business our , homes as well as be the less father happy and sons the ? t
know It is s t hat t y here men is , we t can alwa h in ys a find well- enoug ordere d t house o do a to t home , bu the women whole compelle time of more d to than loy two themselve women enoug , s when in unprofitable there are probabl work y four We occupy or are five speaking almost
now of the wives emp and daughters of the middle classes : p . rofessional men and tradesmen . their Is there own daug any reason hters to wh do y the solicitors mechanical , conveyanc copying er , s , at etc least ., should , for which not t t each that hey I
- pay so much to strangers ? We wish it to be at once understood I sons as fathers they They should would would , require in such not cases payment hesitate , pay to for their permit tlie daug same their hter kind s daug as much h of ters work and to walk done as punctuall and by their visit y
or alone bro . , thers why to should the office it be if improper the work for coul them d not to be accompany done at home their ? own Wh fathers at - sible evil could arise from the daughterssistand wives of medical men pos
, ers , passing no stud t mean ying * pro becoming the per diseases examination surgeons and s constitutions , or wh genera y should l prac of they women titioners not be and ; p but ermitte children , after d to ? stud provide We y and do them ?
for dispu themselves tes that we and make those the who best are nurses often , bu left t h dependent ow many w upon omen there ar No e wi one th abundant mental power , who want bodily strength _.
It may be that many will sneer and laugh , and say we wish to see women police in wig -courts and gown , or lead at i W ng es t t heir minst p up , or t sea hroug ted h on the the wards bench of , and a general practising hosp i-
l tal ives ; but in h it is not dut so ies . a The lone maj we ority believe of women theare must ours and too will exclusi spend vel their but ; y y ,
them they . are Our very home dear duties to us howe , and ver we do not t beg wish in and either end to w neg ith lec the t or childhoo despise d of our children ; grown- , up sons , and brothers will not love their mothers
fear and sis the ters wri : t less ers , for w feeling omen ' they work want are onl n y ot l ove ften , not famil money y men , from , or them they . We t have sometimes heard of such ings as" What ! is all that
say , money gone other a how lread much y detail which a joint of I housekeep of gave meat you ing should the £ 5 other cost is , expected or day how : " when long to have it without should paid an £ 10 t , idea or bills an of y
, . them Every could medical make man an ' s indep daug endent hter could and not sufficient become income his successor by attendance , but many upon of
the wives and children of his patients , to the great relief of all parties . A lawyer spend her ' s daug unoccup hter need time be more neither happ a ily _jxid an ge d ad nor van a tageousl special y pl in eader copy , and ing law yet
walking papers , than about in . increasing Whatever worsted may be sai wort d of , music our inna , c te hal p re heads ference , dressing for trM , or occupations pursuits is but of a our libel husbands upon us and ; we fathers should and enter they most would heartil lose nothing y into the
byour knowle advice d . and assistance on many subjects , where they think we have no Look ge at the class below these : domestic and farm servantsdress-makers
and needlewomen . In this also there is as usual much more , real distress . among the industrious than the idle . How many of us have known a family
accident like the following is deadwhile : —the his father famil , indu is still strious and the stead mother y , by over also exertion industriou or s and a good manager , , gets her y daughters young into ; service , and , her sons into
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Open Council. 425
OPEN COUNCIL . 425
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 425, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/65/
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