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4 Part Ii. Needuework V. Domestic Servic...
notice taken of their efforts has not been such as to make them , firm , and increase their extent . Of one branch of these alone the
advantages are manifest . The durability of the demand for them will be coand equal it with is certain the existence that on of one the branch sex and of the them " fashions machinery " of entrenches the world ,
but no slowl wheels y . They or have steam a living -ine force can among compete their . The elements association , with which of the
cogs , , eng bination designing of human that head no with other the contrivance elaborating can hand , form ach s a and com in - appro ;
order to render power these invinciblewe have but to enable the former to ext cap . multi end ability p into ly of its joints concep giving of tions them iron ad and expression infinifotm , steel , and . we But shall the latt even not er should to be increase astray fingers its in
encouraging women to seek subsistence , in ministering to a _tastef for ornamentwhich commerce is making world wide .
The monetary , value of these manufactures is equal to one-fourth of the linen tradesewed muslin exports rating at £ 1 , 400 , 000
annumand lace ; at £ 144000 per There can , be no question of , the , benefit of such resources in this
with country plain , and sewing of the . good The of latter their the competition , is calculation almost with entir that each ely under other , and the
control of the machineand sempstresses would be injured thereby , is no longer relied on . So far from its depressing the value of this art , it is now known that it promotes
it . Skill in needlework alone enables persons to use the new sewing under process the profitabl old system y , and . the Wage stimulant s in factories to excellence decrease are hi in g is her the greater than number those than
paid for linger labor , and there is no s produced employed cheaper in the classes m than aking formerl heretofore of useful below , commodities and the their reach . consumption of These such are refining being made possible by y
matters . Perhaps we may hail this effect of machinery as a blessing singularly providing enable for our them need to , and hope that for which
wellclad people , when we shall purchase they The cannot large be sum induced that to embroidery make . and crochet brought into the
Ireland came country chiefl , was tells y the enabled very mean distinctl to s whereby keep y on pace our the with emi social of gration facts that condition that of of men women leads . From for to from the the it
last conclusion ten ye that ars . the It is number no exaggeration of female emigrants in that period , soverei 569 , 036 , may provided be mult for the iplied by 10 by , this to g instrumentality ive the amount alone in .
Thusmore gns than £ 5000000 purpose went out of the country , but a balance of nearl , y £ 9 , 000 , 000 , remaine , d to fructify at home , and has done
so to a very important extent . * _*• Ten Sum years used ' for income emigration from needlework , ... manufactures . . . . . , £ 15 5 , , 440 690 , , 360
Balance spent at home , £ 9 , 749 , 640
34 Cultivation Of Female Industry In Ire...
34 CULTIVATION OF FEMALE INDUSTRY IN IRELAND .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 34, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/34/
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