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424 OPEN COUNCIL.
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To the Editors of the English Womarts Jo...
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To The Editors Of The English Woman's Jo...
but still I cannot realize that Emigration in the way proposed is the cure forbe this a difficulty dangerous or path distress . As . a With relief all from the the , care distress that spoken can be of used Miss , it Faithful must still ? s
Printing Office is equally limited with the Law Offices . I , admire greatly the energy of Miss Hye and Miss Faithfull , but at the outside , after they have killed themselvesthey will not have employed more than fifty or sixty
people ; still , the fact that , new branches of trade have been thrown open by them for women is of itself no small achievement , and I congratulate our sex upon this advance . For this progress and increase of our sphere of
action , we ought to be very grateful to them—the pioneers , the clearers - away of many difficulties for the future . Still , I am sure , that any plan which would prevent these grasping middle-men and women from taking the
profits , and badly _paying the poor workers ( which is simply abominable ) would do more in relieving our present distress than any other means we could desire . Whnot lay out money in establishing
largecleanairyworkrooms , with sewing y machines , and let 100 or more women do , the , rest , of the work ; let the G overnment give them the work , and the fair price for their labor ; , the work would be better done and better paid , under the voluntary
superintendance of one of ourselves . I only wish I was younger ; I do think some- - thing of this sort might employ thousands instead of hundreds , and that they i mi gnorant ght be improvident well , and not and ill-paid wasteful needlewomen as well ; as and suffering these ( at fellow present -creatures ) our
, , , should be made , if they cannot be taught , to put aside part of their earnings _^ I feel this , if I enable them to earn Is . 6 d . a day , I have a right to say I . will have Adon each day put bfor sicknessfor marriage & cNow if
women earn at . Coventry or elsewhere y , 30 s . a week , , the moment , . the work _, ceases , from change of fashion or other causes , there is an outcry about
starving men and women , and all for want of a little foresight and care . I must hope you will pardon this long letter , but I cannot help thinkingthat you will find many of your readers , and I may even say friends and
well-wishers of Miss Rye and Miss Faithfull , and earnest admirers of their wonderful energy and perseverance , to be silently holding the opinion of Ladies An , your _Ojld obedient -Fashioned Servant Country , Reader .
July 9 th , 1862 .
424 Open Council.
424 OPEN COUNCIL .
To The Editors Of The English Womarts Jo...
To the Editors of the English Womarts Journal .
Ladi I am es , well assured readers are found those who among your many me delig to ht appeal to follow to them His examp on behalf le , " of who a class went of about an afflicted doing good poor : " who will are you worth allow
of the deepest sympathy ? I mean the paralysed and epileptic . The Ladies y ' the Committee honor to of be the a Hosp member ital , have 24 , Queen established 's Square a society , Bloomsbury to relieve , of which the distress I have
-, heavil always so taxed prevalent for one among itiable the case patients succeeds , but another our limited . I will resources brieflallude are most to * - . some y incidents , of a committee p day . First , a mother , one who y has seen .-.
" better days , " scarcely able to _control her emotions , exclaims , " we have all vainl nothing y strivin but the g to clothes support we a stan paral d ysed in ; " mother next , , a a young widow , g sob irl , s aged out her seventeen answers _,,
to servant our p but itying shut questions out from ; then all hope , a respectable of that emp young loyment woman by her , form affliction erl y a , ., your ( epilepsy space , , ) is with found other starving instances at Government , but will onl needlework y quote the . words I must of not a clergy occupy
man beautiful on behalf instance of of another patient sufferer holiness ly i t has help ever less been , —" my She lot exhibits as a Minister the most to
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1862, page 424, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081862/page/64/
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