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120 a year's experience.
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W Nearly A Year Has Now Passed Since, Th...
to tlie emigrant ships in which they are to sail , and others be readyto receive them on landing . We have tried this year to induce
several ladies to take advantage of the assisted passages granted to Canterburyin New Zealandthe onllace to which assisted
, , y p _23 wi assage llin s to are start granted even o for f those educated who woul women d o . therw But ise we have found liked none to
g , the emigrate other , side because no committee the vague to uncer put them tainty into which decent awaited lodgings them and on
assist them in ; looking out for situations such as are described by residents as actually vacant ; nobody to whom to apply in case of
illness ; nobody to do what Mrs . Chisholm did , when she made herself the mother of the female emigrant of a lower class . In fact ,
no will be made in this most exodusuntil a few care progress fully selected women , trained in all necessary the necessary _^ knowledge ,
are sent out from England , with a small fund and the best introductions to our chief colonial portsand there instructed how to form
, local committees and depdts for the reception of governesses , or any other educated ladies who desire to try the fortunes of a new world .
If such would a plan see w a ere care sensible fully inau diminution gurated , of I the believe strain that at home a few ;
and years I believe that very the Society for Promoting the Employment of W selecting omen mi instructing ght very wisel and y sending lay the out foundation the first officers of such if a the plan neces by
sary funds , could be provided , for that purpose . , I will sum up , in a few words , thus , the meaning of this paper , and the results of the past ear ' s experience as it has affected my
mind . All the semi-mechanical y arts are eminently suited for young th peop e le ossess , and ion it greatl f some y b eh h oves means fath ers f t ainin o train inde their enden daug t hters bread to p
in the p morning of life , while health and g spirit g s are , or ought to be , , them strong selves , so that against while a rainy living da under when the it parental no roof longer they shelter may secure them .
health But there or social are many responsibilities , many y women , , the to semi may whom -mechanical , by reason arts of are age not , licable , women also whose capacities deserve and require a wider
field app of intellectual ; and moral exertion than the compositor ' s case or great the law is -copy the ist ' s desk arative can delicacy afford ; both and seeing in brain , as and I do in d the aily bodil , how y
comp frames of women of the middle and upper class , *—of the bad effect difficulty upon many of of introducing them of long them * hours in of great sedentary numb toil ers , int and o the the supreme fields of
mense competitive surplus emp of loyment the sex , the in Eng more land anxious lightened I become by judicious to see the , well im-
the conducted disproportio , and n morall is equall y guarded enormous emigration and where to our they colonies are _icante , ivhere d in
y , main every social the sing capacity le or ; otherwise and to see self a large - dej ) endent number women of those , who that must
reexist , in every highly civilized and thickly populated country like
120 A Year's Experience.
120 a year ' s experience .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 120, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/48/
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