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106 A SEASON WITH THE DBESSMAKERS.
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beyond emp their loyers engagements their choose regular to keep th salary ey them are ; some to at it work , of without theni just any receiving so long remuneration as as little tlieir whether
as £ 10 a year . With them it is not a question as to providing languishing they would those wish on littl to a make bed e comforts of cc overtime sickness which ; , " do without they so may much the have to mean alleviat a parent s of e
an invalid ' s sufferings ; or , they may be without either father or mother , with , as too often at happens least for , a young assistance * er sister and looking to
themif not for support , ; yet they even must , 8 go hours on working " overtime without ' day any ; extra a proper pay remuneration ; aye ! 6 , 7 , and for
one half even of which , mi per ght be , under God ' s blessing , the means of saving the life of that suffering parent , or , of securing
whose that We young are character happ sister ily is from blest blended a life in of this all shame th country at . is amiable with a soverei noble gn and , in
with virtuous the ; suffering a queen ' , , whose whatever heart may is be ever their read position y to , sympathize in , life ;
breast whose burns eye may to often ease the be found burden moist which with often pity ' s tear , and so heav whose il presses y on that le section of her much loved and loving
subjectsthe working arg women of England . And in what possible respect is not our queen a model to all the women of England ? Aye ! or the world ? Look at her
either as sovereidhterwifeor motherand where can , we find a life more gn , irreproachable aug , th , an hers ? ,
cour I t have is a frequentl very parsimonious y heard it said one— , in too a tone economical of censure a great , that deal our :
but It is if certainl it be economical a fact that , it is so just far and as her punctual milliners in the and extreme dress- . makers are concerned y her , Majesty likes to know the prices of
_, articles before commanding them—a practice which her subjects would do well to follow : and all her tradespeople know full
well that their accounts must be punctually rendered every three months le well , worth when they of imitation are as pun and ctuall one y discharged whichif — the another ladies
of examp our aristocracy would y but follow , , they would find , themselves saving They would at least , too fifty , at once per cent rob , the on their employers former of milliners one great ' bills and .
general excuse for over working their assistants ; an excuse which locked they up by consider the long all powerful credit they —viz are ., that few obliged their to assistants cap give ital th is e so ir
possible be customers trusted . , with Of that cours the they e more we have all delicat to know do e with parts that as mere in either learners paid branch could of not the as
business . But while speaking of our , queen , I cannot but add
106 A Season With The Dbessmakers.
106 A SEASON WITH THE DBESSMAKERS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1863, page 106, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101863/page/34/
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