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276 LETTERS ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN.
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Madam,
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of which printing employs all their them lives ; and to ther teach e are other women women in London V who choose who Lav to e learn seen enough
. little The printing apparatus presses is expensive given to : yet children it may ; very boug beau ht tiful ! We toys all , know yet large the have small at
country enough t school o beg , in where to practise the boys on . I girls prin seen ted a the hymns printing which press they sang a Sundaand ther little besidesIt was about the size of a small
on y , osongs . convince table capable me that of seating two persevering four people . women After could seeing not this manage , nothing to will learn ever to business for themselvesunder all the
be manifold print But , thi and tised s disadvan leads graduall under me tages manifold y to work another of the up disadvantages a art part as of now my when practised subject inventions . . Wh , even y have should been this made art
which I prac spent reduce a whole it to morning one of the on greatest the 23 rd practical of , _November simplicity , in examining ? one depar Covent tment Garden of Maj , and or Beniowski it is a self _' s -evident patents , fact a inventions t his , which printing it in requires the office , 8 , no Bow previous Street de ,
knowled tment ge alone of the crea art te to an verif enormous y , that his saving of time and consequentl compositor y of ' s ex- - hour pense par of ordinar . and The y I types u , tmo with can st speed ever to attain which , is to the a li set ttle most up boy two accomp under thousand lishe thirteen d compositor letters setting per
them tested ; up him at the by saw m rate y watch of eig , my ht standing thousand own had eye set over s one , him hundred hen and and watching sixty struck the per op hour eration , off . I ;
and I saw the lines which he up , wthey were on a sli p am of paper sure . that on this system , I could has myself in a week ' s t with ime become ter
bills the tolerable business , knows compositor tha as a t t the present ; composition and conducted any one is who by the far striking the any heaviest _acquaintance off from item the of typ expense prin e when in s '
set up is a comparative trine . ; prin If ter any I one could doubts not what possibl I have judge said , of on the the ground practical that nature as I am of Major not a
tion Beniowski of the ' reasons s inventions why , I I call shall y the be saving happy " to self give -eviden them t , " a bu personal t I will exp not lana at-
tempt it here , as it is difficult for an unlearned person to describe mechanical inven I will tions also on paper add that . I a ladcomposing tywith l
rapidity , and that the boys saw _employed young by Major y Beniowski are under equa her management .
men I t hope of women my morning in printing ' s work to some practical p to bring issue the . matter of the
employ-Bessie _Ratbteb _Pakkes .
276 Letters On The Employment Of Women.
276 LETTERS ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN .
Madam,
Madam ,
subject idea Permit that —Emi me our g to colonial inquire tion ? possessions the I ha reason ve lit been tl for are attention long your strangel and silence pa the y infull neg on lec y that ect ted impresse has most as markets received d important with t for he at
femal e n labor ds s , t and the the ns me _verjr m e oinion . subj yo I believe emi reng gration has been t overlooked p that chiefly from the the two following both
reasons : —Firstfrom the greaignorance prevails on subject , _$ amongst _nd directors the poor ; , and and secondl amongst be y , from those lished the want who . of generall organisation y act , as without their guides which great work can ever accomp
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 276, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/60/
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