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210 OPEN 1 COUNCIL.
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The Dkessmakeb's Life.
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In Mad Answer Am, To The Cmestion " Can ...
health practicall can y all gain objects a good connected living , w because ith physical in no education school , college and preservation , or training who o £
institution do not , know for how male important or female the teachers introduction are these of those matters sciences taught is ; should those read at in the section
Lord fession of Public of Shaftesbury I the advocate Health sciences . , ' s I If address which shall a few be at happy women have the late to named wish give meeting them -to they devote , gratuitousl Liverpool have themselves onl y , , to instruction procure to the pro the in
necessary some books , diagrams , I etc ., of which ; they will be the y proprietors . I enclose my cardand am , .
, Madam Yours , faithfully ,
London , October 15 th , 1858 . Medictjs .
210 Open 1 Council.
210 OPEN COUNCIL .
The Dkessmakeb's Life.
The Dkessmakeb ' s Life .
Madam , tive In of your the life number of one for of Jul that y you much presented suffering your class readers , the dressmakers with a short , narra whose - their have little
that grievances either the to average mak are e those wide length grievances spread of the , working but public who day or from to in obtain such " redress position houses at the . of , least It business is busy there " varies power stated
from fourteen to eighteen hours , and that , even season , twelve Without hours pausing sedentary to enquire labor is into demanded the effect from of the departures young women , for the emp worse loyed full of ,
wei course ght , of from these these facts stated . Let hours any , woman will your consider readers what the would consider matter be the carefull practicall y the y , and ,
to whether the herself hardshi her of p station this of such seeming be a hi lot g l h y . endless or Let low , her toil reflect p . icture It is to the herself only , way the crowde to consequences underst _hours d room and ,
the sitting dizzy , stoop , monotony ing over of work the , work or still , the worse twelve , standing hours , — for aye months in , low eighte roofed continuousl en or roof , — y . Let her ine the sicklheat of London summer
lihted rooms imag without a break y without a relief ; the eyes , of a jealous superior , working read g y to required question , yet every the momentary frag , ility . or delicacy cessation of of material the needle requiring , the stead swift y
that that care and your if your precision emp health loyer , . or Let often spirits it merel all droop be y imag _/ considers you ined have , with you no pity as this or hired to sympath crown mechanism y every , but , must evil and ,
work , onif life will endure it , or walk off , or die off , if you can no longer when fig The ht against we hours , mig the of ht work be evils supposed when that beset I able first you to came on work every to longer London side , . ) were , ( which weather not was very in advanced extreme winter , , eleven hours dayAs the warm
never however exceeding our labor was increased a and . for three months or more we were at , ni work ght . sixteen , The grumblings hours each had of day new little , beg , comers inning to were early always and lain finishing as met they by had about the known ten older at a
work when time _etnployes when a is pressure _, still who a stretch much told came us of too . we forty oppressive Althoug -eight h hour freed reason and s in without from three comp such months rest a was terrible is demanded quite infliction sufficient of them , the to
• such overcome hours as earlier they the were most than . _^ hard usual On y " constitution Drawing generall , - y room . at It three " mornings is true or four we , we , had and were . on our that at holidays work morning some , — -
we ordinary and had other breakfast d evils ays , incident so at that once on to instead , those a too mornings long of working fast we imposed escaped two hours on the an without ennui overworked , languidness food _^ frame as on , .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 210, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/66/
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