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PATHERS AND DAUGHTERS. 411
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computed by the prospective _honorable profession ; they are therefore in most cases insufficiently provided forif any provision at
all is madeand it is scarcely ever such as to , support them , when losing * the shelter , of the paternal roof , in the habits given to them ,
from their cradles , by both parents alike . These daughters stand thus in a worse position than those of the lower classes of
_societ to live y . , bad For as with that no is provision , in regard or to that obtaining which is sustenance inadequate whereby put of
the patrimonial wealth , neither , are they permitted the privilege , of gaining bread by labor ; and I ask , with these facts clearly before
the eyes of mothers , are they to blame in seeking marriages for _^ daughters- —alliances with tHose on whom the wealth is
conferred , or to wKom the means of gaining bread are permitted ? : , I amrin _: that it is fathers , and not mothers , who decree that their daughters shall not be independent of marriage , by opposing
jail measures to render them so , and consigning them to penury 'lbok without In fbr quoting ? it ' . What these '¦¦ ¦ but _vOr remarks marriage _' : _^ from _^ _^ for Rachel .. ; her _' . \ ' daug ' s .. _' letter " hter we is do the : . ' not mother " ' ignore ' ' " to ¦
the _difficulties and complications of the question . , Fathers will say , with justicethat the women of the aristocratic classes have various
duties to perform , to society which would render it a real misfortune fbr them to be trained toi money getting ; they will say that
linless we mean to beat the air with vain and Utopian discussions , we must t tlie theory of life which obtains in all countries
under monarchical accep government , and regard lords and ladies as the balance wheels of the commonwealth ; and the latter especially as
the _dispensers of a certain fund of money , intellect , and rennem _^ nt , -possessed by England at any given moment . They will ask
Sutherland whether Her do Majest not y perform Queen "Victoria higher and uses her for Grace humanit the _jr Duchess in their of
conspicuous positions as types of the honor paid to womanhood in _{ ¦ the _isb Christian struggle and of civiHzed lifeaiid country whether , than what any evidentl two ladies holds absorbed good in in
_regard to the distinguishe , d personages above named y does not ' also . hold good of the class of which they are the hihest tand
gypes symbols . It is pretty well proved by experience , that every society -- ' which does not possess an aristocracy of rank sets up for
itself one of wealth , andwhether , ( ask these Belgravian fathers , ) -would yoti preferour hih-borii titled wives and daughters
women on the whole , widely g cultured , kindly bred , and possessing , ; in _! innumerable instances a most true and profound sense of
religious responsibilityin . regard to those beneath them , or the more extrem idle el > inferior more expensive _" _^ r / and ten thousand what we " are of apt mercantile fairly to and consider
democratic cities y such as , New up York ? Ladies Ethelred and . _"Fredegonde , brought } ' _^ el _^ _avian'' parents in a certain subordination
up yy to the timei honored doctrine that " noblesse oblige , " or " Mrs .
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Pathers And Daughters. 411
PATHERS AND DAUGHTERS . 411
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 411, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/51/
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