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22 FEMALE MIDDLE CLASS EMIGRATION.
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In Re-Introducing Tlie Subject Of Female...
to tendency send her to go for wrong the temptations , the colonies to vice are the are worst not lessened possible abroad places ,
taken all restraint there , can being never at be once retraced removed 2 , nd and that moreover the congregation a false step of ;
women in masses has a weakening and , deleterious effect on character . As in dense forests trees suffer from too close proximity , so become morall
distorted women reared and sickl without the reference slihtest to breeze individuality and a moderate y storm uproots them y , for they g lack alike that snaps elasticit , y and firmness
which the alternation ; of sunshine and adverse circumstances can alone produce . to be safeltransplanted to
our If colonies girls so it circumstanced must not be attemp are ever ted until they y have undergone some lengthened , period of home-training in private families in
of Eng With the land present . regard wholesale to orphanage manufacture s , I venture of to third sugge -rate st governesses that instead ,
numb whom er nobod of g y irls wants from and each nobod of our y emp great loys orp , that han every institutions year a certain should
be trained at farm-housesto be as regularly apprenticed as they are I to would dressmaking lace one , or or any at , other the most business two . irls with every farmer ' s g
wife who would p undertake , the charge , and the apprentices should churning sundry learn , under similar , brewing her useful , superintendence cooking occupations , the getting , At bread the -up and termination of butter fine linen of making , their and ,
. and apprenticeshi I believe under I proper p these add superint g that irls should the endence , , with be stion transp the has consent lanted alread of to y their met our with colonies friends the , . sugge
. requirements approval I am that particularl of may Professor necessary success y Lindley anxious to must form and that depend a Dr good we . Neal solel should colonist . y upon keep , for a in I ri view am ght foll and the y
aware discriminating our choice of candidates , and we have never yet sent No out ! any the one better woman days simp of our ly becaus irls e are she the has days seen to " come better ; days and . it "
matters little to meand g still less to the colonists , what an emi So grant we very ' desire s grandfather it distinctl was , , to or be what understood her mother that may distressed be . circumy
stances alone are not a sufficient introduction to secure assistance . from bility our to endure Society the . We hardness demand of evidence colonial of life sufficient , and whi of ch a ph moral ysical status capa d -
likely to withstand the inevitable temptations surrouna woman I say p peculiar laced under circumstances such peculiar , not circumstances exactly that . I believe the isola than .-
believe tion in London or that the ; my a temptations w own oman jud who gment to can be and more _resists conviction pecul the i temptations ar or rather more leading severe of London me to , ,
22 Female Middle Class Emigration.
22 FEMALE MIDDLE CLASS EMIGRATION .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 22, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/22/
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