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146 OUB TBADESWOMEN.
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Of So One Favourabl Women Of The " Y Str...
w it oman is vain when to talk she of has home no home being * to the onl to y or proper of priva sphere being for a
essential , to her decorum , when p go rivacy ; involves starvation cy . The time for theory has gone by ; whatever may be thought ,
t some hose thing who are mus now t be q done ualif , ying and t hemse ith a l v iew s for of pract icall ploym y aidin ents g
or are in the tending field * on to do which so , w they e propose are entering to consider the shor difficulties tly in this
paper they must meet with ; and the means by which ; they can best be overcome .
subjec The t firs is t tha th t all that trades strikes are every alread one over in connection stockedboth with with the
masters and men . As to the former y we see , everywhere evidences of their efforts to attract custom , . Advertisements
s tocks goods cl at earing less than off prim of old e cost stocks ; pretended ( bought sales for the of bankrupts ) '
splendid ; shop fronts ; the actual sale of some articles purpose for less ; than they costwith a view of forcing the sale of others at a
profit ; the expenditure , of hundreds and frequently thousands a in advertisementsand other devices with the same
object year , familiar to every resident ; in the metropolis . But we need not multilroofssince the verexistence of the class
of women now p seekin y p g em , ployment is itself y sufficient , for they t rade the smen daug whose hters of profits profess were iona not l men sufficient , or of to the enable better them class to of
make educations a provision , suitable for to their the families stations , in but wh who ich hav they e g were iven born them .
increase get others All a this living be . proves driven Consequentl , and that out that to the their y make present if more number room clas come for s cannot of them in tradesmen , . th bear ey must any can material fai barel l , or y
equall If we y strong now turn evidences from the of every masters emp to loyment the men being , we shall crowded see .
i Their ncrease frequent of dail strikes or for b the shortening purpose of the raising hours wages of labour by an
of affording emp y loyment pay , to y a greater number , shew that a , struggle to live is always going on even in those loyments
which are protected by a Trades-union . In other emp businesses and sometimes in these alsowe hear too frequentlof
thousands being out of work ; and , if anything occur to derange y commercial the usual course panic of distress trade , such is spread as a change on of fashion side . , or But a
perhaps the best proof , , or at least the most every familiar , is to recollect what happens when an advertisement is issued for a
for person this to one fill p a lace situation come , in no by matter the hundred what . , The and app indeed lications so
numerous have they been that the advertiser has been some-
146 Oub Tbadeswomen.
146 OUB TBADESWOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 146, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/2/
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