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THE DISTAFF. 85
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The Traveller Mounting Some Steep Ascent...
trating condition his bir Among th , the the lower y his orders moth the er discomfort appears in was the consid same
erabl ment ions enhanced . the common by the absence use of of shee bed- t clothes s as one also _, for the _Holinshed " t grea
if _amendmen living they they in h under is ts an day in y , shee their who ging t bodies used above " made to t t o remark wi keep thin it was t t the hem hat memory form from l , f or t y seldom of " Servan pric old k men had ing ts
straws that ran through the canvas and rased their hardened hides "
till And . albe t it s o man t amoun y were t o t f time left have shirtless been engrossed sheetless in ,
s preparing t possibl so dispense much of t t h tile and fabrics in as s civilized tage of their beings could
aration we find y them speciall , y commi every tted to the care of prep women . Tusserthe t recorder ' of the industrial occupations of 300
years ago , , in grea his u Huswifery ' s Morning Works , " says , " Good husband without it is needful there be
Good huswife within as needful as he ; , Cast dust into yard , And spin and go card . "
But in the case of a rustic housewife her connection with the s ubmi terial tted of to her either cloth card ing ing had or begun spinning long , for before all the it could ters on be
rural economy at this period direct her to attend with care her crops Fitzherber of flax t , a and writ hemp er wh . As wor the k is list of ted her 152 duties 2 , includes given "to by
fill mak winno the e w hay muck all , shear manner -wain corn or , dung f and corn in -cart , time to drive mak of need the malt hel lou , p to h h wash er to husban load , and hay d t t o
_cornand such otherto go to mark , et and p sell g , tter or pigs , , fowls , and corn ; " these , fibrous crops committed to her special
- wei attention authorities ght proved seem in those somewhat fatal days to lik the seem e that alread however proverbial y overladen to last have feather bearer thoug , . ht whose The the
addition most salutary , for lest there should be an endeavour tillage speciall to escape quarter shall y ordain it , , for an of i every n Act g that . was 60 acres passed in " every flax which in p hemp er the he son hath rei " occu gn an under py of Act ing Henry the which land plo VIII ug the f h or , .
sow a an acre or ; the historian wives Froude and children thinks of the was desi in gned work immediatel in their own y to houses keep
the abominable sin of idleness poor , ' being to king Henry the one ; hatefullest Small chance of had offences one sex in all at persons least of falling of whatever into it sex ! or age . '"
_throug Then h , the when various these processes crops were of g preparing athered in them and had to be been manufao carried
The Distaff. 85
THE DISTAFF . 85
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1863, page 35, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091863/page/35/
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