On this page
- Departments (1)
-
Text (3)
-
PASSING EVENTS. 71
-
XIL—PASSING EVENTS. ——
-
.-» SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL. correct Marri...
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
To The Editors Of The English Woman's Jo...
we should be only too glad to admit the writer-for one day to our officeand there he might gee— -not young ladies wishing to " eke out" their parents , '
income and with —but talents a crowd and of energy educated which women are , in lying one idle stage for or other want of of destitution work . He , no would go-between find that required if he broug to ht shield work these or pay ladies , neither froni would the imputation be rejected of , and an
independence which is to them not a disgraceful necessity , but an honorable and , in too many cases , an unattainable privilege . There is an old storythat a certain ladof rank was reported to have
become an authoress , and , on some one expressing y great astonishment at her the haying assurance done anything that , thoug so much h she beneath had written her station books , , she they had were never comforted made any by
money by them . But such days are gone by , and I doubt if in the narrowest there idea circle of be of sham a the set e of most is this now vul sort attached gar however exclusives to a I woman would of our suggest who most earns remot not her that e country own a committee living town . any be If
formed to shield such vulgar , pretention , or pander to , such diseased delicacy , but rather a mission to rouse a better state of feeling and to inculcate a little good sense and a little honor and intelligence among such women .
in Till sp I ite am of forced a " leader to do " so in , the however _Times , I , wi and ll not in sp believe ite of in all their that existence the writer ; and of it , niay imagineI will still venture to doubt his premises and to believe that it
which is an injustice if it were , to general women would to impute surel to y them have come that special before the pettiness Society and for foll the y
ladies Employment , of Women . That it has not A Member done so of I the can Committee affirm , being . _*" ,
Passing Events. 71
PASSING EVENTS . 71
Xil—Passing Events. ——
XIL—PASSING EVENTS . ——
.-» Social And Industrial. Correct Marri...
.- » SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL . Marriages . —Since 1838 the Registrar-General has _kej _^ t a tolerably
correct account of the marriages in England and Wales , and has told us not ¦ onl whole y what population number . . is As annuall this subject y celebrated is now , but of public the proportion interest , we it bears shall to quote the
was there some 17 were of . 0 his 305 852 facts ; but marriages . the In every proportionate . In 100 Eng , 000 land persons number and Wales in of 1860 persons the , 1 , numb 704 married were er of married in marriage 100000 , or s
gives us , a marriage-rate for the whole , and we need not trouble ourselves , to inquire into the number of the population at different periods . This
marriage rate in 1860—1 , 704 marriages in 100 , 000 of the people—was in excess of the average , 1 , 691 , and therefore some surprise may at first be felt that find comp husbands laints should . Further now ari inquiry _^ e , and clears not before the have mystery arisen , and that we ladies notice cannot that
the complaints come from the upper up classes at the Westrend , while tlie greatest increase of marriage occurred in " the manufacturing , districts of . " export Lincolnshire trade and very Yorkshire large in . " 1859 At once increased a light still breaks more in . on There us . In was 1860 much our
prosperity of comparativ in , those e wealth districts , combined ; all classes with , good were _prosjsects full of , hope led . to The the increase possession in . the number of marriages .
The Business or the Divorce Court . —The following statistics may interest our readers . Since the commencement of Trinity term the court has absolutely disposed of 111 casesof which 33 were tried bjury . Besides
these , a number of others have been , partly heard or have been y postponed by the parties themselves , so that , of the 153 on the list , there only remain 28
which have not been called on . Since the commencement of the legal yeai _>
-
-
Citation
-
English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1861, page 71, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091861/page/71/
-