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THE NEEDLEWOMAN AS NURSE. 51
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Labor Women To The Very Is Great Attribu...
not tell me _; probably they made her some allowance ; but at any rate she found some means of livelihood during the few succeeding clerk
h years ers a elf lawyer , when mist ' s ress she offi . ce again of , w it p married re a tty fixe little d . salar Her cottage y second ; and and onc husb e had a and gain s was ervants she a t foun be to d
wait on her . Her domestic life was , however , doomed o clouded . After a few years her husband ' s health gave way and he became a confirmed invalidreuiring her entire care . Night and
, q a t las she t paral nursed ysis en him sued — , his and illness he b was ecame both little painful more and than tedious a living — Their
log distress , help was less increased as a child , by not povert knowing y . O even f course his wife from at the times time . when
on up he his could his situation savings no lon . , g er These a during ttend , ho t w t he ever offi firs , ce t graduall h y ear had o y f his bee melted n illness obli before ged the t y their live give d
wantsuntil at last all were gone , and Mrs . T , with her husband her incapa , ble She of thoug lied h to t friends or action who , saw at nothing first willing but destitution ly came for before ward
to t . heir aid app and by small sums , thus sent her she lived for some time longer . , Then began fast the downhill of misfortunes . With
no income whatever coming in , friends began to tire of continual T applications could for not relief , for , . Leave pless her as an husband infant , he even required for an hour her entire Mrs .
relief meal one care . , every seemed and So thing the thus at next of temporaril hand thing any . As value to y each do supp disappeared was l article y the to sell was present . their sold Still furniture need hope no . permanent seemed One piece b to y -
of Her die life a husband way so , often and she connected the could evil never day with of hope the extreme disease to see destitution better he suffered , but to with from draw a he tenacit nearer sank y -
, that Into imbecility something . must Every be resource done , again at last Mrs came . T to an app end lied . Feeling to her
husband ' s friendsand a consultation was held among them , which , she ended would in their undertake proposing , to to take ort charge herself of . her This husband she agreed provided to
thinking she could best serve supp him by so doing , and thus they , parted .
taken emp Here loyment counsel was the of as women time to what when been she , had was in an being most organized , fitted Mrs . for T machinery and mi been ght for laced have the p
out at oncethus forestalling the after misery into , which she fell . She was essentiall , fittedboth by experienceageand disposition
for the employment y of nursing , : this was not , , however , , even thought , ofNothe one endless vent of needlework was the only thing
that . suggested ; itself , and taking a small lodging , she began the life of toil , which would probably have ended in gradual starvation ,
but for the Providence which led her to find friends and sympathy . ; The accident I have referred to was her first great drawback ..
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The Needlewoman As Nurse. 51
THE _NEEDLEWOMAN AS NURSE . 51
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 51, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/51/
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