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    280 LETTERS ON THE EMPLOTMENT OF WOMEH,

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    The " Saturday Review."

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    art , and to insure their lives for their daughters * benefit . It declares these du a daug ties h to ter be a alternative little capit , no , t it correlative would be absurd : in plain to teach English her , — how if one to use can it lea ; ve if it would

    be she superfluous has been taug to leav ht some e her useful any . Here calling is the and whole could duty emp of loy father capit s altern , ately porting arranged ( . which " If is all Miss women _Parse in s' the first reformed position ) social the motive state are and to duty be in self-sup ts

    to provide , for them after death ( which is , her third ) ceases . Given paren , all women trained to a useful art and capable of exercising it successfully , we canno arents t imag from ine all solicitude any state as of to things their which daughters would The more reasonabl notion of y life release

    inp surance implies making a provision for those who . have very no visible means or hopes trained of to suppor work ting implies themselves that they . The have very means notion , and of hopes all women elevated _being to a

    urge certainty that , these of indep duties endence are alternative . And be , it but observe correlative d that . . Miss Make P your arkes daug does ht not ers wa She tchmakers sathat and "both clerks duties , are and equall leave them impera a tive provision and both out equall of your savings lected .

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    Speaking But the as " Sa from turday a grea Review t heig " ht has , as also upon pecu such liar ma views tters of it po generall litical y economy does , it . whatever reproves Miss upon Parke the wages s for of supposing labor . Miss that Parkes the supp naturall ly of labor y supposed has any that effect the

    deficient salaries of , bu governesses t also by reason are low of , no the t onl immense y because number their of education women seeking is sometimes emknows ploymen that t in this way . No " badl such paid thing onl howe because ver : t t he " t Saturday each badl Review Their "

    governesses are y y y y . have numbers better have nothing to h do owever with it the . v need They need t be not fewer be fewer which / " M " To iss governesses , , ,

    sti Parkes pends ' , sugges of whic tion h ; Miss but Parkes if all governesses does not seem were to be be tter aware , all woul . She d get seeks better to an raise economical the average fallac standard which of she skill shares by with limiting the the trade number s now on of strike workmen " —

    y . needlewomen One wonders . If ho numbers w the " Saturday are of no Review " would in the speak one of case the wage the s are of consequence , y n of eedlewomen none in the other bad . ly " paid As to , and the of point ten get , " we into may difficulties fancy it , t say his ing is , _" y that an .

    sewing indirect is mode very bad f urg . ing _Needlewomen the propositi get on , little which because nobody the dispu shirts tes , they that sew female are worthless social lectures . This , etc is . a mere If they matter had better of political stitching economy to sell , and thev it would require ge s t a for itTheir

    next better to price nothing . . They need pay not is ne be xt fewer to nothing , which , because the common their ser sugges vices tion are , for does if no needlewomen t seem to be were aware better " , all would get better stipends , of which society

    . important It is , however matters , to when consider the " the Saturday _question Reviewer from a hi " gh rises moral from point such of view less tha He t his lays remark it down s are that esp the ecia greatest lly curious of . social and political duties is to

    encou-. rage marriage . " Married life is woman ' s profession ; and to this life her husb training and — , or that losing of dependence him , she may —is find modelled that . she Of is course without by resources not getting . All a

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    280 Letters On The Emplotment Of Womeh,

    280 LETTERS ON THE _EMPLOTMENT OF WOMEH _,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 280, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/64/