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' A SEASON WITH THE DBESSMAKEBS. 105
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Chapter Iv. Other We Descri Will Now Tio...
that His wife tie can may make have his just week recovered ' s wages perh cover aps from week , a confinemen ' s expenses t . ,
a ttendance be near which one , or oug t h here t to be paid be . Being doctor ' himsel s bill for of famil strong y constitution , he hails with joy his employers extra offer to make
a t over the time end , " and the works week perhaps gives him two one hours cl additio ear day per ' s to day his , beyond which little ,
the accustomed six ; a very valuable n income . We will take -another class who derive great benefit from
hundreds u overtime o , f " junior viz ., clerk lawyers s in ' clerks different , bankers government ' clerks offices , and , whose many £ and
yet regular , very salary many o of ften whom does , have not exceed wives and £ 60 families , or 80 to keep year , ,
for their very position ' s sake , must present a good appearance the to number the " Times world of " . newspap adver How tisements can er any this be setting done in the for ? week simp th that l , y thus " you gen : — will take tleman see up
The t l a aving " his keep evening clerk ing in who order hours feels a _disengage tradesman his income d , ' s will accoun insufficient be t happy books ,, , especiall to & c devote . & c . y " ,
when poor it is time to think of the education of his children , by these very all over his little hours difficulties " will in all probability be enabled to
overcome . eit We her will the carpen take yet ter , one the more pain illustration ter , or any — other the poor of mechanic that class ;
prob whose abili home ty in a ordinaril house and y consis neighbourhood ts of one of small the mos room t unheal , in th all y descritionin which are huddled tther fathermotherand
of perhaps spending p four , a or week Hive children or month . at They a tim oge hav e at none the of sea , h side priv ; i , leges their
and loo onl ki y daisies ng chan upon ce and o na f t brea ure list ' t enin s h verdan ing t t he t the carp pure music et fresh , studded of t i r with of little eaven buttercups feat , hered and g
l warblers abours , an d , with y takin their g one wives day and during families the visiting summer * the from fields the in ir
do some they of , the think suburbs this little of our recreation great metropolis purchased . And when how its cheap cost l y s
tim to a e" for , the strong remainder and able of the to week bear . it M , just y readers a few , may hours perha " over ps be
getting assure them impatient that , and in the accusing foregoing me of remark digression s I have , but kep I beg t my to
subject I have steadil before y in view stated , as that will now the be class seen of . females usually in t
denominated milliners and dressmakers , or , oher words hours " the " white in a pecuniary slaves oftlie sense 19 . th That century is to , " s know ay , by of the no terms " over of
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' A Season With The Dbessmakebs. 105
_' A SEASON WITH THE DBESSMAKEBS . 105
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1863, page 105, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101863/page/33/
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