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A SEASON WITH THE DRESSMAKERS. 9
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Chapter Ii. Than I Know When Not A A Mor...
with those _employed in the house _, as I shall more particularly shew To by comp and book lete bye a . large and establishment stockkeeper , there all are of also whom the sales must
be women have good to , book a scholars th - eir keeper , and orders , write the a clear stock leg - - keeper ible hands has , to , ns keep the account former
of the im material ortant s duties she gives of , a out book ; while -keeper we . all It know often what happens are the too
with very saleswomen p that in addition to the qualifications beforementionedthey , must / also speak the French or German
, because language I have . as dwelt a clas at s some millin leng er th s and upon dress this - p maker ortion s of are my general subjectj ly
degree there spoken are reprehensible , of those with am great , o , ng but contempt them the man whose . y I are conduct admit not , to with is be in and regret sti the it hi shoul , g ti hest th at d
be for known the few that . There this " are fold black " numbers sheep in altogether every flock , nearly 20 , 000 most
femaleswho labour under powerful disadvantages _^ and youn And are g those exposed who , have to the unhap most allurin ilfallen g and from frequent the rig temp ht path tations , are .
pels they to them be alone to sit to condemned at held the needle , p or y is , 16 not , 17 ? their , Is 18 oppressor , not and the even princi , who 20 pal h com our of s -
such out of an the establishment 24 , l _> e chargeable responsible with inhumanity , with cruelty in its worst formexcepting only actual murder ? Can any one ,
the possessin considering conscience g the herself feelings of , those worth of who y a Christian the attemp name t , to imag of wring ine a wh Christian out at of must twelve , be or ht to be distributed
young while creatures amongst they females to at enj sit least oy the from tlie ei manual g luxuries six hteen o ' clock ? labour of Who one their th morning compel at own oug bed these to till three nearl unfortunat the y next mid e - ,
'• dep day Never lorable ? was , than there for a one picture unacquainted work more appalling at with about its , horrors or a subj two , to ect become ' clock more
health in an the eye-witness morning are ther of e . with such Girls a who red - oug room and ht , sunken to be in for one the want or full of pride natural o of eyes
rest ; cheeks , blanched , as and the paper upon alasthe which victims I write of ; forms
wasted with exhaustion , many , , premature Doubtless disease . many will say that I a . m exaggerating the evils ,
or am the at doing atrocities all even neither , ts perpetrated , picking the one out nor in cases the the of majority other the , worst but of sim descri the ply West recording ption - . end I
houses during the fashionable London season . None can speak
A Season With The Dressmakers. 9
A SEASON WITH THE DRESSMAKERS . 9
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1863, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091863/page/9/
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