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ON THE CHOICE OF A BUSINESS. 149
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taught her father's trade , as she then learns under his protection , is sure to be well taken care of if illand not to be overworked . A
, photographic artist at Brighton has brought up his four daughters to his own businessand it is said the whole family are prospering * .
Such examples should , be more frequently followed . The daughters are thus provided with a comfortable maintenanceand their father
, on his deathbed will have the comfort of reflecting that he has secured them from the evils and dangers of poverty .
There are several other handicrafts requiring skill rather than strength in which women mig'ht very well engage , though they
seldom do _, and which they should beg their fathers as a favour to teach them .
From whatever cause it may proceed , it is certain that a lack of spirit and energy is often to be seen in women ; they seem to be
willingly helpless and contentedly inferior , as if they thought that God had made them so , and it was not their own fault . For example ,
I once went into a shop kept by a widow in which there stood a weighing-machine where people were in the habit of getting weighed .
I told the mistress I wanted to be weighed ; she replied she did not understand the machine herself , but her " young man" would
soon be back . Now the woman could have learnt the use of the machine by half an hour's study , but would not take the trouble ,
and thus left herself at the mercy of her assistant , for as all the heavy packages of groceries were weighed by it , it was perfectly in
his power to cheat her . This quiet acquiescence in ignorance and helplessness is melancholy
to observe , and unhappily such instances are not uncommon . In France women have far more energy , and constantly
undertake the whole management of shops . At Dieppe they carve ivory brooches and other ornaments , and
must send them reap to a Eng little land harvest , where . * great Wh numb y should ers are not sold Eng , by lish which women they
pursue this easy and pleasant trade ? Great quantities of ladies' shoes are also imported from France ,
said to be made by women , and sold at a very low price . English shoemakers should teach their sisters and daughters the handicraft ,
for why should foreigners enrich themselves while our own women starve ?
For persons who have not had a superior education , and who have no chance of learning a handicraftcooking is by no means a
con-, temptible employment . Formerly women could only become cooks by first becoming
_* scullery and kitchenmaids and working up through a long course of drudgery ; but now , by means of the various cooking schools
estatating * Women precious in stones France . This also work is probabl as jewellers y the reason ; _polishing why Fre setting nch jeweller , and imi y is - like the Floren
tines so chea . p In Switz pretty erland . women They are mak beg e inning watches to , clocks mosaic , and . work _sjsectacles . -
On The Choice Of A Business. 149
ON THE CHOICE OF A BUSINESS . 149
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page 149, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/5/
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