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ANNALS OF NEEDLEWOMEN. 397
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.. Chapter V. " I Am The Woman That Work...
affection The widow which is in she dreadful has suffered liealtli ; for tlie years hollow is coug fast h and wearing asthmatL * he ]
outand weak in mind as well as body , she , frets night and day not , knowing what will become of her children when she dies
for I she talked feels to , she her says of a , that heavenl she can care 't last which long would * . guard her little y
onesof the God of the widow and the fatherless , but evidently hei mind , has been but little directed to such a source of comfort , It still the
and could not find consolation in the thought . was wail , _"Oh , ma ' am , though I rarely see ht that the children excep have t in
bedfor we are all so tired out at nig as soon as we eaten for , them our like bit of their supp mother er we all when go to I rest am , gone yet there . " ' I s inquired nobody t if o care the went to
to Sunday children read school ever Sundays , * learnt no , at and first any befor the thing e eldest she ; whether went girl had to they work tried ever in to the teach morning herself a ,
on but she got so tired she gave it up , and now generally slept of a Sunday I . Who inter _coxild ested wonder in the ! account of these two little girls that
was so own I requested housewhich their she mother did . to Their send faces them and to me hand one s were Sunday clean to , _biit my
their black , stuff frocks and clothes so ragged and dirty , that they the looked spokeswoman as if they and not been lainl changed with for a premature years . The knowled elder ge was of
the cares of lifedetailed , very to me p their y , daily struggles and difficulties . I asked if they , remembered their father ; no , they funeral said , the but they first
recollected solemn impression going that with their their minds indeed mother had ever to received his their . Did loyers — they kind like ?
yes and their , promised and business there to ? was hel very her one much on girl to who make spoke . buds "Were . very Were good they emp things ever allowed to her ,
times a game the of elder play ? one oh p sai no d , never the lad , they let were them too sing busy , and for she that liked . Some that - y
very What , much were ; they she g had iven learnt , to do a all hymn day to ? oh sing , to , and twist some the it songs wires also and . .
to prett pick whether y out work the . they colours I then had and tried any hel knowled to p s to ound stiffen ge them of the God , poor leaves children or lit of tle , a things of was Saviour very ! as .
neither Alas ! they could wer read e almost or write as . ignorant Th industrial ey expressed as heathen lives had themselves ; , however them course of ,
remarkabl education y well . If home their influences early it had alsoI deprived believe , had this effect any it had , kep any t them from a knowled , ge of , much of that evil
from which , school is picked companions up in the and streets which from leads idle to such acquaintances sad results or . even
What But kind to return of women to the , are point these with two which poor I c i ommenced gnorant children this paper ( but .
samp The les flower of thousands -making ) trade likely must to make fail ? when they arrive at woman ' s
Annals Of Needlewomen. 397
ANNALS OF _NEEDLEWOMEN . 397
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1862, page 397, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081862/page/37/
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