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58 ASSOCIATION FOR THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOM...
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_ We Desire To Call Our Readers' Especia...
is "Wh the " * But is very it I that much general where fear apath the y chief find that three reason prevails that four in more good the is matter boys not ' done schools of in girls this ' educa direction will tion find , .
" and barel y schemes y one efficien of , so t - called irls you ' scho national ol ? W education h or y is it that the in are pamp almost hlets , , uniforml and you speeche y ig s - , y
nore are in d terested ? The in reasons the are twofold of education ; a very think large , of number it only in of connection the people wi who th
g knowledge of our irls' nati scho onal oling who as wealth essen is from a tial mat progress ; they elements ter tive of mean illiberality little of productiveness b or y no educ of moment mind ation , are . , the and Another opposed extension , therefore to still all of , larger with education skill them class and ,
thoug persons ct h to ashamed , irls , to So that confess na on either this generall hand the y , do ir , ls not ' school blush is to lected own it . with And , gneg
what t respe he irls is the in g m result . dis ? trict For are want sent of to miserable good schools private for girls schools , three , where out of they four have of y
no My reli g belief gious is , ins that truction England , no will discip never line , secure no indus the trial higher is training benefi to . ts * expected * schools * to *
of resu * a * lt sensible from # * national and _^ r practical _jn- education _ust multi sort pl , y . un over The til more the more face attention enli of ghtened the country paid women g g irls irls of ' ' Eng schools land . into their handsand do for
for must our our girls come reforma what forward Mrs torie . and Fr s y what take did for Miss the our Ni matter prisons ghtingale , what and Miss Miss own Carpen Stanley , ter are has doing done
for our hospitals . ' , none _# have * been _< c P bestowe ains have d on been the g taken irls , who to fit , taug boy ht s for onl stresses the y to p read lace , The and but
sewhave sunk down into miserable , starving seam . master , of an old-established lace-shop in Oxford Street , who emloys several "women to waittold the writer that he experienced
p , He no little added difficulty 4 You in finding be sure persons tradesmen well qualified employ as for many the position women .
, may as " they We can are , told for tlieir however wages are that half there those are of other men . objections ' to tlieir
employment , besides , the want , of education . ' Women , ' it is said , are * could sold not bales possibl of y sheeting lift the wei require ghts , to for be in move those d p and laces where -where g tapes loves
, , there aware are found is after an , there error a moment is here also , ' a as s demand reflection everybod for y heavy who _Different frequents pieces articles of velvet shop are s . ' will sold Now be in
. ment the different will department be referred s ; if to you another ask for counter velvet at where the glove will depart be - you
attended , you to by another young man ; and if you , then ask for muslin , you will be sent on to a third . Two or three men might therefore be
kept in every shop to do the heavy work , while the great bulk of for can the thousands business be little , doubt which of women of is their lig in ht being , Eng could land able be now transacted to stand "work the by standing number women in . of manu hours There - ,
factories ten hours a day , and if medical men are asked , we believe their opinions will be generally found to be , that the active life of a
shop-girl is less injurious to health , than the sedentary one of a seamstress . * * * School for
" It is the intention of the society to _establish a large
58 Association For The Employment Of Wom...
58 ASSOCIATION FOR THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1859, page 58, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091859/page/58/
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