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ON THE CHOICE OF A BUSINESS. 153
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many fail in the ordeal is but to say that only a small percentage of the IiTinian race are fit for martyrdom .
All who are wise will avoid this profession ; not that needlework is in itself a bad employment , on the contrary , it is a very good
onebut because such numbers crowd into it , that the competition drives , the payment down to a point below that at which life can
for All long who be sustained have good . feeling , all who love their neighbour as
earning themselves a livelihood , will , if they , that have their unhappy chance , turn sisters to some who have ther means no other of
opening , no way of escape , may have more room to struggle in , and a better I believe chanc the e real of obtainin true cause g tolerable of all this terms misery from to their be the emp neg loyers lect of .
parents as regul to arl apprentice y as they , their do their daug lected hter sons than s . to There the some other is trade no and or reason handicraft no father why should be more
would one sex think of declining to neg put his son to a trade because , an uncle of mig not ht apprenticing perhaps leave his him daug a hter fortune because , neither she may oug perhaps ht he to marry think ;
foras the Melbourne Argus truly , says , " the number of marriageable educated , women in the worldis out of all proportion to the
number of educated men who are , prepared to marry them . " If women were quite positively certain to marry before but their
Some they father are ' s day death not the , , it the contrary is present wicked princi system and ple cruel will would , and be not universall based be so on bad y a admitted ; fallacy as . . leaderwill be
written In course and of tim lectures e newspaper iven on s will the take duty up of the parents subject to their , daug s hters ; then clergymen it , will will be preach recognised g about that it , and a father tracts will who be cannot distributed leave , and his
daug able hter to earn a fortune an honest , oug livelihood ht to teach and her the a man trade who that fails she to may do this be
miserable women will be thoug will creatures ht beg less in well will to improve of graduall by his , y , nei and diminish ghb this ours , superfluity . till Then it ceases the of position to hel exist pless . of
untrained Meanwhi women le , the onl who y advice are too I can old to offer be to apprenticed the alread , y is existing , that those who are fitted , for it should become sick nurses , and that learn
_cooking they those will who and consider are go not into this , but service a possess degr , either adation health here but and or I in stren do the not gth colonies , see shoul what . d I fear else
there is for them to turn toand it is less , degrading to live by honest work than to depend on charity , . To those who have not strength for thisI can recommend nothing _; but the British public should
from suffering remember th , eir , and that own suffering they and are they severel worth belong y y , objects more to a from of class benevole the to fault whom nce of , for others life they in than the are
workhmise is more , than usually irksome and painful . J . B .
On The Choice Of A Business. 153
ON THE CHOICE OF A BUSINESS . 153
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page 153, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/9/
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