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forerunners of a social change which -may gradually develop Al untold giers number into a manufacturing of women . I attende country d , the and little absorb fete the of installation lives of an ,
when a high ecclesiastical dignitary of Algiers came to perfornl divine service at the little chapel on the premises ; he was accom- ;
riage panied s stood by several in the of ravine the civic , making functionaries quite a festive of the bustle town _> . whose The car two >
good partners men were , deli gay ghted and not smiling merel - — y with indeed the _^ I business believe them aspects to have radiantl but been with " the benevolent side of their schemethe sisters were
; y p airy leased and with wholesome the prospects the dining of their -room charges and kitchen ; the dormitories clean and were com- _>
modious . The hundred , girls , after being taught a respectable trade and enjoying careful moral superintendence during their
youthfuly able ears marriages , would be without free at twenty difficult -one * , Things and would being probabl as they y find are respect in this
modern life of ours it was undoubtedl y y a good and kind scheme _^ well and carefully carried out ; careful for the welfare of the children
in this world and the next ; and yet , perhaps , you willnot _wonderi . that I could not heltliinking of those poor ch . il . dren at their eternal
spinnings whenever p in after spring days I walked over the wild hills and through the scented glens of _Algiers ; and that they brought
home to ine , from the vivid contrast of the untrammelled nature around me , what perhaps in Europe mi'ght never strike the heart
with equal vividness , that our modern civilization is in some respects best a very show singular their thing kindness ' when to the han kind irls hearts by of shutting a great them nation up can to
orpg spin , silk at a machine for twelve hours a day from the age of _thir- _* teen to that of twenty-one .
during Eight that years time of of youthful sewing g cookin irlhood g with sweep the ing smallest dusting possibility and with
neither play nor instruction , except the , little they , -. canp , ick up on Sunday . What will they be like in the year 186 ; 9 !
So much for silk at Lyons and Algiers ; and remembering that at Lyons the mode of industry is as _J _^ et very favorable to women ,
let us see how matters stand in regard to cotton and woollen at alr Honen eady and prevails at Lille Referring , where , as to a M rule . Simon , the ' system s book of we large find , factories that he
. starts on the first page of his preface with stating that he has passed more than a year in visiting the principal centres of industry in
Franceand that whereas tne workman was once an intelligent , forcehe is now onlan intellie directing a _force-- _^—that of
steam , ; and that the immediate y consequence genc of the , change has been to replace men by vomenj because women are cheaper , anducan
direct the steam force with equal efficiency ; " A few years ago ;" no g ays he inning , " we by had machinery very little mechanical iiowFrance weaving has definitel _* and , so y to and speak _glo- ,
sp ; , riously taken her place among the countries of large production , " /
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1861, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091861/page/6/
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