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    LETTERS ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN. 275

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    On Tbintiixg.

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    Madam:, A Practical Proposal.

    be mitt freshl ance of crea women ted . to this department of labor , for all these offices will y

    post throug If - the office h report parliamen authoritie be true t s during , that there Mr the can . S next ykes be ' little session plan doubt has , and been that be approved pu it t will into be of execution by carried the

    shor We tly believe afterwards that . at this moment there would be no little difficulty in finding months a thousand "will be good allowed female us to arithmeticians them and Surel book when -keeper so s , much _biit

    some prepare . y branch popula distress tion of and , ever misery and y exertion remunera is now oug caused tive ht occupation to by the made unemp and to procure lo the yed bes state t means t " of of the t securing his female new

    its it , du is ties to provide , with easy skill them and with despatch such instruction . One thing as , shall at least enable is them certain to , perform that if

    the against necessary them . instruction be withheld , these situations must be closed Of course , endowed schools , h to t give foundations the required of thi education kind must , canno be t spring work

    ward of up t like ime this , mushrooms money object , . and In in labor every one , ni li bu g ttl t e ; something town that boasts might a be money s done -order at once office a to ( for and - considerable h to several

    evenin with yet g classes more reason for girls in such ght as bej are established . If enoug the school- possess master was too ) busy iven for b the purpose retired , clerk instruction and in the accounts means of and book ing - him keeping be raised might b

    g subscrip y tion some ; the cleverest g , irl of the class be chosen pay to iill the place of y tions saving for s ' -bank the others clerk if , and they little had difficulty been well would taught be . found in providing situaeither with tt

    post mise Meanwhile -office that , au if , thorities the all proposed who , should have scheme in ex terest ert be themselves carried to out obtain , Mr the . preference from Sykes them or wi sliall the pro he be - clerkshiif t

    be given found to for female tlie purpose candidates . Thus for some the hundreds ps , of respectable competen g women irls would can more be provided practical with course a comfortable of education maintenance than that , generall while y the afforded advantag to e women of a

    would be strikingly exemplified . Truly * yours , J . B .

    Letters On The Employment Of Women. 275

    LETTERS ON THE _EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN . 275

    On Tbintiixg.

    On _Tbintiixg .

    There is no mechanical art in which . I am more anxious to see women print of engaged mere ? sugges I than am sure in tion printing , that that the I ; will but true pu it answer t is the so very direct is that desirable question they , to have Wh lift y not the do . yet subj t women ec shown t out

    the energy which is required to have and to practise a new trade . I fema think I know le compositors it is tha not t unlikel there . I am told But strong that we it need ling even not in amounts t strugg his trade le to against a agains combination t this emp feeling loy ; and ing '

    To mix men and women y . together in the printing offices would be very unde- . w sirab hat l e , unless vents w tlie omen strictest from superintendence gaining the necessar were y exercised instruc . tion But and , let t eaching ask ,

    w to themselves and oman find labor a teacher to perfe ? acquire I . c shall tly Yes . average be I ! know told difficult intelli that that but gence it ; but not is . a impossible still difficult I shall it may art be . , told There requiring learn th are at t in it women great is time difficul pains b now y a t

    in England , wko are good compositors , f I know of cne Lancashire firm

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 275, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/59/