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394 ANKAXS OF NEEDLEWOMEN.
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.. Chapter V. " I Am The Woman That Work...
neither on foot relaxation for long weary nor rest hours . , Of are course kept up with late every at ni thing ght , and to do allowed , there
is no time for learning how anything , should be done . _Simday these little maids responsibilities
comesbut instead of rest poor ' out are increased children , and ; it all is their for the emp day loyers leav ' holiday ing their and servant they to frequentl keep house y go ,
with , orders on no account , to leave , the premises . Accustomed before going long S to abb service ath hours to p is lenty more of wearisome playfellows even , the th dull an work monotony to the of child the
servant ances are ; and made stealth with y visits other to attemp the streets ts to , beguile where strange the time acquaint , are the
sorrow consequence and . often The , ruin door results once . op The ened chap to lain temptation of a large , mischief district ,
dismissed union school , from told service me latel having y that lost more their g character irls returned while to maids the - unions
of-allworkthan in any other , capacity . This is also the case in prisons : many , an early crime has been traced to this same want tale of
supervision S ? on s he Sunday alth was . I not am proof , however against , digressing the strain from put my upon it . at Mrs her .
first _j ) lacebut for several years she persevered in service , going from one situation , to anotherbut her health at last entirely gave way
and she was obliged to have , recourse to her needle to live , and ever The according seeds graduall ly of took y consump gaining a small tion ground earl lodg y ing , sown and in in general which her constitution to debility perform followed were her work how ; all it - .
mattered little what was her occupation , her strength failed in , and weak sight prevented her gaining her livelihood at needlework"Washing was the next scheme triedbut with little success .
. , It was at this period of her life she married ; her husband was a bricklayer and in full workearning what to her appeared
, wealth of affairs , namel and y , for 30 s a . few per week . all Here went was on smoothl a happy y enoug change h . years
But no habits , of prudence and forethought had ever been encouraged in either man or wife , previous poverty was soon forgotten with
followe spent money and d in their hand nothing marriage and temp laid , but tations by the for without ' also children a rainy ; the inherited day 30 . s . A a their week large lost parents was famil three all y constitutionfor the husband wasconsumptivethey
infants within , a few years , two children still remained ; to them . both lingering At this ; they juncture illness had , literall the and man y then nothing was their thrown to want fall usual out of back forethoug of upon work , of b s ht ave y was a the long felt wife their and by ' s
furniture attempt to . get Now needlework and then , the and man the attempted recourse half a selling day's work , but rap but idl a always little y . They tea suffered and were from compelled was the all exertion to the app hel l , y and to afforded the his malady parish them ; for increased at relief last a , p
visitor , seeing the poor sugar man ' s helpless condition , interested himself
394 Ankaxs Of Needlewomen.
394 ANKAXS OF NEEDLEWOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1862, page 394, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081862/page/34/
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