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428 OPEH COUNCIL.
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To the Editors of the English Woniarts J...
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To the Editors of the\ English Woman's J...
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428 Opeh Council.
428 OPEH COUNCIL .
To The Editors Of The English Woniarts J...
To the Editors of the English Woniarts Journal . July 5 th , 1861 .
There Ladies are , some striking proofs of the injustice and unreasonableness of paying women lower wages than men receive for the same kind of work to
which Of schoolmasters I should wish to who call hold the attention Government of your certificates readers . those who stand highest , get money value < £ 30 ; for the lowest degree . £ 15 , ; if the master be
_! not N « £ ~ ow 10 provided , for as pup that il with - purpose teachers a furnished , , and the g their irls hous work ordinary e by quite the salaries school as hard -managers vary as the from boys , he . £ ; 50 is they to to be £ stud paid 120 y- ;
as many hours and as assiduously in the Training Colleges , and as mistresses knowled the they naen are . found of Their the to various subjects be quite kinds of as stud influential of y needlework differ , conscientious somewhat including ; but , and the surel " persevering art y a of thoroug cutting as h
out , " and ge an acquaintance of the _miritifarious , branches of " domestic economy and quite , " as required as useful among as , the the scraps attainments of Euclid of mistresses , algebra , , and are the equivalent superficial to , not the
knowled we former find as that ge well of for chemistry remunerated having obtained , & c , as as learned the the hi latter hest by ? the degree Instead men . of Wh of certificate this y then being are a the mistress case ,
gets t from ments the < £ Council 5 or £ 6 Office is deemed . £ 20 ; sufficient for g the lowest and £ their 10 ; in salaries lieu of , furnished from vary ;
apar , ; . at £ 20 ft lower to £ 50 price . Xiod to g women ings are than not let to men at a . cheaper rate , nor are provisions sold
of my I them sister submit and schoolmistresses these to learn points where to , like your the _myself fault readers lies would ' . notice be , and glad I to know know that the many solution of
, I am , ladies , your obedient ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦" s ervant _- ¦ ¦ , S . JNV ; .
To The Editors Of The\ English Woman's J...
To the Editors of the \ English Woman ' s Journal . Worthing , Sussex * 13 th July , 1861 . ¦ ¦ '¦¦ ¦ '¦
JjAI > IES . /¦ " - • I have been , * much , I should rather say intensely , pained by the paper in your last wreaths number were ( Jul procured y , 1861 , at ) on such " E a merald fearful Green rice . of " child I had -suffering no idea as that is
green p _, that there ladies described will , continue nor can to I think desire _^ as the wreaths writer infers if these in ornaments the closing * are passage to be , green
manufa scarcely c just tured to at the the purchasers risk of health to suspect and life or - accuse to the them juvenile of an makers indifference . It is rience to such results I did not as few know , if and any , multitude are aware s beside of . I speak me do from hot , knowi my own that expeany
Your deleterious . porrespondent powder was is quite , used ri in ght procuring in setting the forth color the imparted truth with to the regard leaves to . the " will hig not hly health poisonous and life nature wei of h against the substance the whims used of , ladies but not who rig admire ht in saying ,
wreaths ? We have little hope g that they will ! " Why should such a conclu green - saste tion be and drawn even ? often To admire of very green good taste wreath but s is it not would a " whim augur , " the it is worst a matter feeling of
if the , manufacture of green wreaths were , insisted on when it is proved to It entail should such be intense put down suffering bAct as " of M Parliament . NY' has broug as illegal ht before if the your wearers readers ~ 6 . f
wreaths are found deaf to y the voice of humanity , , but this , I cannot think they will be . I am , L » adiesj yours faithfully ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 428, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/68/
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