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274 A SEASON WITH THE DRESSMAKERS.
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Into On My Other Retirement Housesi From...
carry " If out the their Sutherl design and House with sufficient Committee vig woul ilanc d e fairly we doubt set the not examp they le could , _anck execute the task . They did not shrink from , the wholesale difficulty of
wh emanci y hesitat pating e at the grapp three ling or wi four th the millions London of m n antua egroes makers of the who United are dependent States , — for their existence upon the goodwill and patronage of their , customers ? No
doubt their intelligence will find a way out of difficulties which puzzle the masculine brain . * * * For ourselves , we can but point to other climates to where leave toil their meets native with shores its as appropri soon as ate reward - , and can urge be these scraped unfortunates together .
Those who go wi ] l find a better England passage at the money other side of the globe , and those who remain will find the market in a more wholesome condition .. Almost every week we have to record a strike for increase of wages among
certain classes of male labourers—it is time that the turn of the overworked women had come . " I niay here give an illustration of how impossible it is for
had girls , from unaided young , to hel peop p themselves le leaving . these The app " work lica - tions houses I constantl , " and the y ttin the
ex harrowing treme . One tales I I most heard particularl from hem y remember , were dis , who ressing presented
suffering herself employmen in a t v . fe erel arful She had state heal been t of h distress she dismissed refused , begg her to in work g situation me af t t er , because 10 ive . m r . ,
She sought employmen y t else , where , and was engaged , provided p her reference suitedbut when in answer to the usual inquiry
; , she " What refused was t her o work reason our for hours leaving " — " the the unfortun answer w ate as , — " Because s doom
was at once sealed ; nor would , her late employer g give her a second reference . Thus was she left to wander the streets
mi quite almos te to t hungry hous buy a eless . meal The , and . onl , a y fter consola her t scan ion I ty cou purse ld give was her exhaus was t my ed ,
the In subject 1855 , , w Mr hen . E there . Tyrrell was , surgeon Royal C to omm the i O ssion pthalmic to enquir Hosp e i in tal to ,
gave evidence of a most painful case . He says , — " A delicate g o f total , of abou loss t of vision years . of She age , was had broug been ht apprenticed to me in conse as a q dress uence
ma deranged ker , and b her excessive health , work before . She her stated vision that was she affec had ted , been was
compelled t y remain without changing her dress for nine days and nihts consecutivel . "
The g Eoyal Commissioners y , in summing up the report , could of not the help commenting le to on state the all great they disinclination knewand thi on s the as they part
young peop , , in I saw ndeed order , owing , many that * to they a abstained feeling mig of ht intimidation from not g making ive offence , which any statement to was their very emp prevalent whatever loyers . ¦ , _; .
poor and this girls was was no considered matter of . surprise Many of when them the were position orphans of , or these the
274 A Season With The Dressmakers.
274 A SEASON WITH THE DRESSMAKERS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 274, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/58/
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