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64 NOTICES OF BOOKS,
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The "Workwoman .. . "I? Cie Ouvriere ., ...
bers when sick or unemployed . The influence so lately exerted by our trades ' -unions detrimentally on the true interests of the British
• workman induces us to doubt their beneficial effects ; we should be more desirous to witness the establishment of less powerfulbut
, equally salutary societies . We ought not , we may observe , in discussing the improvidence of the poorer classesto be too severe .
In the ranks above them the same fault exists ' , , though from the different circumstances it does not so offcen necessitate an equal
amount of disaster and trouble : Emerson , in one of his latest and best speaks of the common error of living close up to one's
income essays . The , yearly or weekly pay increases , the recipient without hesitation in ninety-nine cases out of a -hundred increases Ms
expenditure . The rainy day comes , exposing these unthoughtful ones to its dire chill . When we see how this error obtains in the
hi a g little her classes common , where prudence we mi , g bur ht suppose condemnation education should to have be somewhat dictated
mitigated in surveying the laxity which prevails in the realms of poverty and ignorance . In the middle orders we occasionally come across
professors of the admirable theory of regulating expenditure with a partial a view check to . the the Still future , it is man . something The on practice the other to have we hand are the i b theory gnores ound _^ to both which add the is may princi rare act and p as le
and its ; development poor . , The charitable sp , irits who minister to the necessities of overty could effect no little by enforcing this excellent
doctrine on the p objects of their compassion ; we are morally certain of the good seed soon bearing fruit .
With the present forced absence of the wife -from the workman ' s home , we can easily perceive how likely he is to go astray and ,
¦ without knowledge of domestic happiness , to seek excitement and p cases leasure men with of loose this comp rank anions are . often We led 'know full when well that such , in is many not away
the case , but the" danger is increased tenfold when the wife is occupied , all day at the manufactory . M . Simon informs laborious us that
needlework is not nearly so lucrative and far more an employment for women , else we should at once feel inclined to suggest its introduction to restore home work to those wives who must
raise bring the in their quota of the to workman the weekl and y gain thus . cause Since the it is wife impossible ' s return to to
home life wages M . Simon concludes th , at all efforts should be directed to m decrease aintaining , , if possible when practicable , the evil , by isolated limiting emp the loyment hours of and female above labor all ,
female decentralizing , ation , wher from e the unhealth interests , ydensel of trade y populated would , be town untouche s to the d ,
occup , open country . "We must not , " says M . Simon , _" renounce _doing good because we cannot lish all we wish at once . " We can assure
our author that should accomp his book be rightly read and estimated in Franceas well as hereno little will have been effected in the right
path . , A gleam of sunshine , will be thrown on ctaritable minds ;
64 Notices Of Books,
64 NOTICES OF BOOKS ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1861, page 64, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091861/page/64/
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