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IMPARTIALLY CONSIDEBED. 77
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_ V Some Years Ago The Fishermen Of A Sm...
Walesthe Chinesewho are all men , swell the returns of the male population , considerabl , and it is not enough to know the
proy ; portions in the whole of a colony merely , for many parts are almost inaccessible to women .
number 29 The 109 cit yet of y of males the Sydney deficiency being actuall 27 of , 285 y women contains , while in more the the number women whole colony than of females men of , New the is
South , " , Walesexclusive of the Chineseis as much as 33130 . The country deficiency districts , therefore , and , these must are lie most in the , difficult smaller to get towns at . , , and Those in who the
have been in the , coloniesknow that ladies cannot travel alone b there etween as they have can so little in Eng accommodation land , and America that . they The would inns , be few liable and far to
find them , full , and no place to sit in but the common room for all , parts of which "Victoria of even the and gentlemen country New South wom sometimes en Wale are s find I not im very wanted agine disagreeable they . On would the . find di In gg them many ings
cattle selves quite stations out are of p inhabited lace , and the by greater men onl number y , herding of the together sheep and in
mere cabins . the _Suj next _3 pose question we have is , found what the are p they lace to where do when women they are get most ther wanted e ? ,
A few energetic ladies , well known for their practical and comand they prehensive operation deservin are working , for benevolence sendin of all it , g this possible out , have plan educated encouragement seems organized women not onl a p as y lan and safe governesses , which , assistance but admirable is , now and . But , in as , ? .
these ladies are g fully aware that the demand for governesses must present have a . , limit wer , e the and p thoug lan extended h this limit as the may author be far of from the paper reached in tenth the at
National _Hevieio proposes , even to the taking away of a part of the " redundant women" in England , it is evident that the idea of sending them out as governesses would have to be
abandoned . A governess is almost necessarily the second woman in a house ; therefore the very fact of the scarcity of women , is a
proof that many governesses cannot be wanted . I should be as unwilling as S . G . O . to " see the day when any inducement may
be given to ladies to go out to the colonies , professedly as teachers , but in realitto seek husbands" and to suppose that those ladies
at homewhose y sole aim is to , benefit and raise up their poorer sistersand , who have been so careful to ascertain that their labours
were required , before sending them out , would offer such an inducementwould be an injustice and an insult .
To , send out women for whom there is no certain occupation , would trulbe _" mere transportation under the name of
benevoy lence , " for it would be to put them up to sale , to make marriage a
remuneration necessity to them better ; and than is not such a degradation hardest work as the this most ? All starving these
Impartially Considebed. 77
IMPARTIALLY _CONSIDEBED _. 77
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1862, page 77, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101862/page/5/
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