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424 ~ MEETINGS OP THE MONTH.
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0 Domestic Service.
depots cookery an . And excellent I am means satisfied of that training an adequat young e female knowled s in ge a of knowled cooking ge and of the t of
generall of 'the prop y of er the and humbler economical class of management society , is one of of food the on greatest par blessings women that could be conferred on the working man . ( Hear , liear . ) Every one who is
at all conversant with their habits must know that there are no people who in are the so i knowled gnorant as of to the the best most mode essential of turning rules scrap of domestic s to account , so deficient as the mass of those who ge are placed under the greatest necessity for economy the constant , hear
b exercise elieve that of frugality a large proportion and economy of the in difficulties their househ which olds beset . ( Hear us arises , . from ) I the from sp the heres male numerical the which population last involve disproportion census of num th the at erous the country between number casualties are the in of sexes the and females army . great An in and loss immense this of navy country life , proportion . and It exceeded appeare in other of d
labour the number is greatl of males y in by excess about of 500 the , 000 demand . Can ? you Have wonder we , not then here , that the fema real le cause of the miserable condition of needlewomen—the most miserable and
and the degraded earth zealto ? condition the ( Hear correction , , perhaps hear . ) , It in far is which , I think oss women ibl , our of are this duty to mischief be to found direct . on our There the attention face arein of p
to whole fact say , a great of , that the man one telegrap y emp large loyments hic , telegrap establishments which hic are establishment open are , open to has women been to , in them . For recentl which . examp I am a broken le great sorry , the , numb We er of must young watch women carefull were for employed , openings for loyment y of
women up . . There is , I believe , a very y great proper desire on the part emp of employers in substitute all parts female of the for country male , labour and especiall , not onl y y in because the manufacturing female labour districts is cheaper , to than male labourbut also because women are more docile than men . I
, either believe to there resist has oppression hardly ever or to "been raise a case wages known . I learn of a from combination a communication of women which I have latel district y receive has d , th said at a that person he having would infinitel a large establishmen prefer filling t in it
a manufacturing y is with a cap women ital thing to emp to loy have ing a men woman . He in used a mill this , for remarkable if she happen ! expression to have a : — hear child u It
or The a sick employments husband , which by Heaven we desire , you to may find work for her women to death are such " as ( Hear will , not be . _^ ) open to this kind of objection , and for which the patience and care , as well
enabled adapted as the docility . to Let collect me of add from women , that all , who parts I think x are of it prepared the is country very for important evidence them , render that bearing we them should on well this be
English question ; W and oman that ' s Journal by malting —a journal that excellent , the management little periodical of which called is mark the - operations ed by great and sagacity a medium and penetration for all the , and more good important feeling— suggestions a record of with all our a
view to an , amelioration of the condition of those whom we seek to , benefit working we shall order do much . ( Cheers toward . ) s I bring have ing no our doubt system that this of operations Society will into go on good to , that it should
greater and greater usefulness . I ani sure it is veiy necessary long do so as ; for there so are long so as so many thousands women of are wretched in their needlewomen present condition so long —so as
milliners and dressmakers many are persecuted and trampled upon , and , worked stance to death that —and a case let me which say has , that been I consider recentl it broug a most ht before providential the public circum oc-
curred three or four weeks before the Parliamentary y session , instead of , after its termination , in which case it would probably have attracted far less
424 ~ Meetings Op The Month.
424 _~ MEETINGS OP THE MONTH .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1863, page 424, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081863/page/64/
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