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    274 LETTEBS ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN.

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    Madam:, A Practical Proposal.

    their the duty female of all children fathers of or the to middle afford them class , ei such ther instruction to lay hj a as provision enahle for may

    nor them yet to he maintain forced to themselves contract , , unhappy that his marriages daughters may to avoid neither destitution he left in . want But _execute _according the to las the tmentioned present constitution duty of affairs it is not easy for a father to

    -. two If of a little them tradesman to a foundation has six scho sons ol , , ( if will he live probabl s in y some be able favored to send spots one , he or burden may secure him for is them lih all tened a cap but ital education if he has for six a daug mere ht trifle Heaven , ) and thus helthe the

    on g ; ers , p be where man taug . , His at ht a onl crochet considerable y educational , worst expense ed resource work , , they and for them will to j receive is ing a le * seminary a a little genteel on for edueaction the young pianoforte ladles , and , " .

    tha he When may t she , their perhaps course succeed , wish of him education to teach at his one is death concluded of them and for his and this own they business have re he , turned with establishes a home view , ; purpose

    her the money as cashier may spent in his on her shop schooling , when to , his she dismay does no he t understand discovers tha bookkeep t in spite ing of . all If dismissed be

    he gets another a place in the telegraph office , she is presently - business cause her terms spelling in is use deficien ; for the t , or chief because difficul she ty unders in emp tands loying none women of the common in this these at last in

    despair branch , of he industry apprentices , is t one heir or ignorance two to dress on both -makers , sends _points ano . ther So out as a aforesaid governess crochet perhaps , , worsted though work she , is and incapable jingling of on teaching the piano anything , and trusts but tha the t rest with husbandsHis wifethe

    mother Heaven of in these its mercy poor hel will pless provide girls , the sees but too clearly the . necessity of , the ing not case to herself , and blame therefore , her she daug is courts onl hters try , the and ing young her to the whole men best of sex of her her ; and acquaintance ability yet the to provide poor , thus woman degrad for her is

    i belief daug t is It b hters is etter that universall in to the , prevent most y acknowled y effectual distress way y open ged than method to that her to prevention . reliev of bestowing e it ; is it better is charity ther than efore is the our cure found sincer , that e -

    solid ing of schools tical for commercial girls of the education middle which class , sh where ould fit they them would to be receive clerks post cashiers offices prac , saleswomen and in the , numberless to serve in o telegrap ther , positions h offices where , in r intelli ailway gence ticket is and re- ,

    , quired The progress rather than of civilisa strength tion . is every day opening new departments of employment to well educated persons . A ive scheme is tive at this moment under

    ing considera the smallest tion , which possible , if carried amount out of , will phy g sical remunera strength to some occupation hundreds requir - good accountantsMrSkes has drawn a lan for increasing the

    num-. . yup p the tion ber of number with gov every ernmen 01 these money t savings is -order one ' -banks office thousan . throughout He d five proposes hundred Eng to land establish . , These and it one bank appears in s connec are that to - tt

    grea recei t ve est the possible smallest facilities _siims , and the to form be open ation e of very pro day viden in t order and saving o afford habits he . of m N erel o the in y t undertaking eres be t can t , safe how , as ver the , be in g tere iven st will the be mone required y thus to pa inve y t t ed ; ex i p t ense will s

    . will In be places able t where o attend the to post the -office bank clerk as well is not as to alread his other y fully du occu ties , pied but , he in many instances this will not be the case , and a new clerk will be required .

    Now The wh obj y ection should commonl not this y clerk raise be d agains a woman t emp ? loying women in any but the most unremunerative offices , viz ., that they deprive m of work of emplo the ymen ad t ,

    could not be raised here ; no man would be turned out by -

    274 Lettebs On The Employment Of Women.

    274 _LETTEBS ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 274, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/58/