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126 OUR FRENCH CORRESPONDENT.
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Paris, September 19, 1861. Ladies You , ...
as much struck with lier skill in argument as with the delicacy with which she treated the difficult subject selected for her lecture ; and
and on concluding she was warmly applauded by her numerous hig All hly P cultivated aris has been audience turning . out to-day to see another celebrity in
were a totall admitted y different yesterday sphere . , althoug No less h than the prices fifteen were thousand double persons d for of
the occasionto witness the performance on the tight rope a sense woman disp who laye , is d entering as much her agilit eig y ht as y-fifth when year she . ski The pped venerable f as an to which infant
danprodi in Robesp the gy ierre evening before , Barras the after , leaders Sieyes the stormy , of and the Danton scenes Jacob , ins used of , in the to the betake day which e themselves they
principally inaugurated . She was the Fanny Elsler of the Consuto late be , and in full figured vi throug when h the the Emp allies ire entered and Restoration Parisand retired ; was supposed wealth y
into private life gor after the exile of Charles X . , The old lady ' s history died mi in ght the probabl oblivion y have into been which waived she sank , and for she mor too e would than thirt have y
years elastic all her , had as fortune it not ever a in speculation had gambling been fever on lied the taken Bourse to hold the , managers she of her , finding , and of after her the Hi step losing ppo as - app
drome and Cirque de l ' _lmperatrice , for a new engagement . The former dancing accepted before several the offer consecutive , and Madame audiences Blanche from twelve Saqui o has 'clock been at
noon That till class a very of late reformers hour in who the are afternoon represented . by M . Jules Simon
are ine quite on in account consternation of the large at the amount social action of emp effected loyment by its the introduc steam - -
tion eng into factories throws open to female hands . But it is useless to mill argue when that they home have is no a mean happ s ier of providing place for women the barest than necessaries the noisy
never of life , leave were their they to houses follow . the At Mulhouse example of every their thing grandmothers has been done and
that could be devised for placing the workman in a position to enable him to keep his wife within doors but the success has not
; been recourse very to si the gnal mill . As owners the for girls grow loyment up they in order invariabl to have y have the
means of satisfying a great many emp wants and , desires ; and those who think with MJules Simonand who would preserve the
discordant elements of . modern societ , y from falling to pie ' ces by inculcating the idea , and insisting on the practice , of domestic life for
womenare loud in their exclamations against " that monster steam man's , " daug , because hter , the say means they , it of p standing laces within on an the independent reach of the footing work- ,
which makes her unfit for married life by destroying the capacity for being happy when dependent .
Others are for following the tide which industrial causes are
126 Our French Correspondent.
126 OUR FRENCH CORRESPONDENT .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 126, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/54/
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