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Oltf THE CHOICE OF A BUSINESS. 151
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iAere tHe work is severe and the pay only just _enough to supply themwith clothes .
, Parents hardly seem sufficiently aware what a benefit these schools will confer on their daughters , by enabling them to avoid
these hard places . If a young creature , whether a horse or a human beingis overworked in its youthit cannot recover entirely ,
and never becomes , as strong and healthy , as it would otherwise have been . Horse-flesh is so very valuable that no one would
think of setting a two-year-old to pull a cart , because of the injury that would be done it ; but it is not thought necessary to take
so much care of girls , who are sent out to work hard while still growing , to their great future injury .
Some spirited ones who will not give up soon enough , break down under it at onceand _retiirn homeperhaps to dieperhaps to
be delicate for lifewhich , for a workin , g woman is the , worst fate of the two . The very , strong can stand this early hard work , but
girls of average strength are hurt , and the wealdy cannot bear it at all . But where industrial schools are established , this evil can
be done away with , for girls taught in them will be able to get tolerablgood laces at onceand the knowledge of this will
compel y harsh mistresses p to be , more considerate to the poor young irls whom they loyfor if they treat them illthey will be
unable g to get any emp servant ; at all , as the girls will go to , the industrial school to learn their businessrather than take a place where there
is danger of their being overworked , ; and in these schools they will learn much that is valuable besides . Habits of truthfulness and
tidiness will be inculcated , and in many cases much that is evil in example be avoided by keeping away from the wretched places to
may which When girls once are a often irl has compelled learnt to go , h to of learn her to business be servants to be . able enoug
to take a place g in a gentleman's family , the life is far from disagreeable . There is lenty of companionship to promote
cheerp fulness , and , if a woman is careful , the wages are generally sufficient to enable her to save a competence for her old age ..
Some people complain that maids' wages are too high ; a most unreasonable laintfor surely a person who works hard has a
right to earn enoug comp h to , keep her out of the workhouse in her old age ; and it does not appear to me possible that this should be
hi effected done gh , they under by are great £ , 14 in economy my or op £ 15 inion . a So , almost year far then , and lower from even than maids then is ' ri wages g it ht can ; and being onl ladies y too be
who endeavour to force them down commit a great injustice . The wages of an ordinary woman with no particular skill ought to be sufficient to enable her to provide for her old ageand those who
, have skill besidessuch as cooks and ladies' maids , ought to be paid , for it over and above
. . Still , compared to other employments for women , the profession
of a servant is a good one . But some may , perhaps , think that
Oltf The Choice Of A Business. 151
_Oltf THE CHOICE OF A BUSINESS . 151
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page 151, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/7/
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