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factories away from their homes ; and that last winter , in _London , a widow woman and three children were found in a garret deacl
( all but one ) of starvation _^ in a neighbouring parish to our office in Princes Street , Cavendish Square . .
v We do know that the returns of lunatic asylums give on the whole , though with much variationa larger proportion of females
and that while the wear and tear of , the world has its influence in , turning the brains of men , those of women suffer from ascertainable
causes of anxiety and depression . last The year state to the of pecuniary the law is interests also patent of deserted , and the wives large is relief now shewn given
in _eTery daily paper . It should never be forgotten , that that change by which deserted wives can now procure protection for
their earnings , and of which the immense benefit is felt hy women In every part of the countrywas earnestladvocatedand in some
, y , measure promoted hy the same band of thinkers and workers who have laid the foundation of the English Woman ' s Journal . They
were told on all hands during the course of that movement that the numerous wanted woul petitions d be of sent no use tip ; were were too not lon wanted too , or short thoug too h greatl feeble y
too strong minded ; were the rootless product g , of agitation , , and that , an agitation could never be got . Many ladies would not si
because the gentlemen did not approve up of their doing so , and many gn gentlemen would not sign because they were sure the ladies were
quite content , and did not care a straw about the matter . Yet ; _, somehow , seventy thousand names , not of straw , " were sent up to
the Lords and Commons , and gave the last impetus to that gradual change in public opinion which guarantees her earnings to the
deserted wife who is working for the babes she bore . We think we have adduced reasons enough to justify our
existence ;—but . since the cause of the English Woman ' s Journal * versus Domestic Life , has been brought up , we are willing , nay ,,
desirous to state , for once , what we do think regarding that which are the accused French b are y John so fond Bull of of calling knowing " The much Famil less y than " and he of does whieh himself they !
It seems to us that any one who should attempt to derogate from the honor of the primal institution of humanity , would be too foolish ,
according to our Saxon and Jewish notions , to deserve confutation * As well try to build up a house with rotten bricksas a nation
whose component atoms were in a state of moral disintegration , _* What the cellular structure is to the physical frame , the household
is to the body corporate , the basis and the constituent of all that we can discover or define . We cannot catch and analthe vital irit
thoug in man h we ; we know cannot that wei the gh and Eng label land of the Cromwell moral power yse and the of a Eng nation sp land *
_must of George be humbl II . were content very to learn different all we indeed can of invariable For the body we
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1858, page 76, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101858/page/4/
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