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THE SPINNING WHEEL. 98
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(Continued.) - Ii. The Spinning Wheel.
Norwhen time was so much , taken up with providing wherewithal , to he clothedcould much he devoted to household
affairsand hencenot onl , y that neatness which is the very basis of , comfort in , a modern English home was wholly
unknown Holingshed , hut 's p even ithy rem common ark , that cleanliness " the artificer was and a husbandman rare virtue .
lower some by make , and - detail greatest class have cookery a it accoun quickliest in ainful t of those such read icture d y ays meat , " of ; throws humbl while as they li e Harrison g homes may ht on soonest in the draw Eng state come s lan , in of d very pp
in the 1586 . " , sort This , of nevertheless themfor , " the says wealthier he , " I do utterl seldom y mislike offend in herein poorer : thatbeing of themselves , without government , they are so careless , in the education of their children ( wherein their
husbands are also to be blamed ) , by means whereof very many of or them obedience , neith do er fe oftentimes aring God , come neither to regarding confusion either which man if ners any
correction or , discipline had been used towards , them in , youth , _country might have b proved their good good members service and of their industry commonwealth " But if and the
children , of y the wealthier " were more carefull . y tended , their leisure parents to personall themsuch y devoting arrangements perhap of s some their houses measure as required of their
menial services , were not allowed to occupy much of their o attendants ffal lay ordinaril ' time ; y and undisturbed when , in , the day hall after s of the day received , great only , dirt covered _afresh and
layer from of the greenery sight when it is the not surp rush rising -strewn " to flo find ors that dwellings a of a lower grade were , often in a most offensive condition in London . in A
, friend 1511 writing of Erasmus to the , a former learned respecting foreigner , his residing difficulty in finding a fit , aboderemarksthat in some respects it would not be
some unpleasant merchant , to him but to " , I establish could not his well quarters endure in the the dirty house habits of
of that class of which , I have had more than enough experience : " and Erasmus himself , a man patronized by royalty , and on
visit intimate to Eng term land s with , and the giving highest a commission nobilit weather y , to when engag arrang e bed an ap ing art a -
b ment y way for of him nest , onl and y sti a pulates good fire for , " " adding a " for -proof the rest - I room will fare no better th , an I have done" The view of middle-class
. Eng life lish thus housewives presented compels could never the have reflection been that at so the low pride an ebb of
had the exigencies of the wardrobe permitted more attention to be and Mental paid however to culture the a dwelling few , learned too , . could ladies not of but hi be h rank generally miht neg be lected rival- , g
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The Spinning Wheel. 98
THE SPINNING WHEEL . 98
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1863, page 93, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101863/page/21/
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