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396 ANNALS OF NEEDLEWOMEN.
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.. Chapter V. " I Am The Woman That Work...
room to attendand the younger child of seven passed her day at oftener , fearin the streets—four shillings a week was
the school aver , or income _, I to support , these three - human beings ; eighteena age weekbe it rememberedwent for the rent , the remaining
half exist pence Some -crown on readers such found , a sum will them perhaps but in food I can scarcel and attest , y other credit that necessaries tliat it . is three possible . persons , for many could
has often detailed , to me the manner in which she lays out and a woman thi there s weekl refuse y pittance cuttings ; there sold are cheap purchases because of a unwholesom farthing ' s worth e and ,
are , , wonder tainted , then they that cannot disease be got and rid sickness of excep are t to rife the among very poor them . ? Can Take we to be
alone the fact that numbers of families are known living on a few shillings a week , and yet no new protective and law is made to increase to help
especiall them . Can y taking we then Into , we consideration ask , expect honesty the temptations morality to which the , are exposedand which , succumbed to , afford them present
relief poor At ? the To exp proceed iration , , of however the month . the little woman who last had attained been
so sufficient anxious proficiency to test her in powers the art as of a flower bread - - making winner , , had to be at a recipient of weeh for
thirteen wages to hours the amount ' work daily of one ! shilling unheard per -of week liberality —one ! shilling twopence per per day ! addition to the
This aid was however evidently felt to be a great famil ars- y old purse child , and mi gave ht be the converted idea that into even a the working little one machine , the seven ; idle - g
hands ye even infantine , ones , were hard to support : so away from the only ion chance , of childh of p ood icking up from a few home crumbs and of mother learning , she , away was from taken the to away
reg be bound to the flower , businessbut the employers shook their heads , , " they had should no have place been for a so welcome very young reproach a child to any . " mother Surely ' such s heart an .
No answer want had begun to force its claim against natural affection . this She , p addition leaded " for thoug them h to they try could her ; " not still take the same her themselves answer , but , with they
: knew lied a workroom there and found where they she wanted might a child perhaps to twist be admitted wire , but .. nine She
bound pence The app arrangement a for week eriod was was all to the they concluded business gave , , their and even the hours the poor companionshi from little 8 a g . m irl . to was p of 8 thus p her . m .
sister was denied a p herand she went _; to her work among strangers . The sisters' work lay , in different directions , their hours also were
not the sameso that they were rarely together . proved The elder her determination g , irl persevered to and be worked like the hard little _5 and water at the -cress age seller often ,
" the woman who works for the bread , . _" She became such an adept at her workthat unsolicitedher employers raised her wages to
halfa-crown a week , and thisadded , to a slight increase in the mother ' s earnings , has , kept the , house and kept them from the Union .
396 Annals Of Needlewomen.
396 ANNALS OF NEEDLEWOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1862, page 396, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081862/page/36/
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