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EWJ-1864-02-01 | 15 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | There remains now to be considered, the position which Co-operators should occupy in respect to the public generally, and such members of it particularly as sympathize with them. This question is practically the first to arise, for the manner of its settlement determines whether the concerns to be started partake of a ... | 1 | 3,435 | 482 | 3,917 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_15 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 15 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The principle of the non-participation of women in the commercial pursuits is receiving a constantly increasing amount of respect and consideration; in past times, this was not perhaps to be regretted; it was an unavoidable result of the heroine worship of chivalry, a necessary because natural stage in the development ... | 1 | 4,075 | 124 | 4,199 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_15 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 16 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the number of women yearly thrown on their own resources, naturally only a small proportion can be qualified to maintain themselves by purely intellectual pursuits; some professions may in time open to receive a few more, but the mass of women must after all, like the mass of men, earn their living by ministering to th... | 1 | 4,203 | 147 | 4,350 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_16 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 16 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | So, we meet again, fair cousin! fourteen years have changed us though! I can meet your eyes now, cousin, with a calm unfaltering brow; I can take your hand in mine—ah! its thrilling touch is gone! And your voice that speaks kind greeting, what has quenched its magic tone?
You will be a bride next month—may all happine... | 1 | 4,203 | 394 | 4,597 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_16 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 16 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | LXVIL.—FRIENDS AGAIN.
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EWJ-1864-02-01 | 17 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | But I care not to recover those bright bubbles—let them go! Life has grown too grave and solemn to be moved by joy or woe; She who brought the sunshine round her—the pure light of holy days— Has left me, and the world is shrouded in a sad funereal haze.
But I walk there, not desponding; very thankful am I still— Thank... | 1 | 4,011 | 362 | 4,373 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_17 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 17 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | It is a common saying that “people cannot be made virtuous by Acts of Parliament,” and the bare literal truth of the assertion is certainly undeniable; but any doubt as to how far virtue can be influenced by legislation might well be dispelled by tracing the effects of the present Factory Act, in comparing a mill of ou... | 1 | 3,825 | 205 | 4,030 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_17 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 18 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | 378 WOMAN'S WORK IN THE WORLD'S CLOTHING.
exposed when invested with irresponsible power, can no longer be cruel despots; but have been habituated to act justly, until the habit can hardly have failed to become natural: while the operatives, no longer brutalized by ill-treatment and deprived of all opportunity for sel... | 1 | 3,371 | 478 | 3,849 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 18 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | As a sanitary measure, the whole factory has to be lime-washed once in every 14 months, and every possible precaution against accidents is made obligatory; while the provisions of the Act are constantly enforced by the personal supervision of four government inspectors and a numerous body of sub-inspectors, and the fre... | 1 | 4,203 | 122 | 4,325 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 19 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | aspect from that which it presented in the early days of its existence. No longer the gloomy abode of oppressed victims, wearing out their lives in ceaseless toil, it became peopled instead by healthy and intelligent beings, rendering willing work for just wages; a scene of cheerful industry, under a rule of righteousn... | 1 | 2,859 | 679 | 3,538 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_19 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 20 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | time to turn from the fine to the useful arts, and view those vast factories, in the development of the processes in which as much power and intellect had been expended as in the produc- tion of the esthetical treasures of the great Picture Exhibition, besides the super-addition of so mighty an amount of material force... | 1 | 4,075 | 225 | 4,300 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_20 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 20 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | A railway journey of a few minutes' duration takes us from the capital of looms and spindles to one of the suburban villages, for in some of these the factories are on a yet larger scale than those within the boundaries of Manchester itself. Arrived at the mill of Messrs. _______, at Ashton-under-Lyne, about six and a ... | 1 | 4,075 | 374 | 4,449 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_20 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 21 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | reached our shores, we offer it our first greetings in this room, where, some lying loose in heaps, some still sewn up in the matting-covered packages in which it is sent over, we see the “cotton wool” just as it reaches us from the lands where it grows.
Taking up a small portion successively from different heaps, our... | 1 | 4,011 | 434 | 4,445 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_21 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 21 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | It is then submitted to the carding machine, a revolving cylinder thick-set with metallic stubble, like a brush with wire in the place of bristles, and overarched by a semicircle of similar wire brushes, removable, but in such close contact with the cylinder that there would not be room to insert a piece of sheet-tin b... | 1 | 4,203 | 202 | 4,405 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_21 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 22 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | would be filled to the brim almost immediately if its contents were not constantly crushed down. This "drawing" process is repeated several times in order to get the fibres more and more parallel to each other; six of these soft ropes, which are technically called "rovings," being put together and drawn out again (on t... | 1 | 3,243 | 485 | 3,728 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_22 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 22 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "Yarn is always reckoned by "hanks," which are measured off in the spinning to the one invariable length of 840 yards, the number of hanks to the pound weight determining therefore the fineness of the thread, denoted by a corresponding figure higher or lower, according as many hanks of fine, or few of coarse yarn, are ... | 1 | 4,075 | 83 | 4,158 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_22 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | “mule,” No 40 was the highest number spun, or in other words, a pound of raw material was never wrought into more than 40 hanks of yarn, measuring 840 yards each; and when, in 1792, no less than 278 hanks were for the first time spun from a pound of cotton, the feat was looked upon as quite a marvel, and the yarn was s... | 1 | 2,923 | 622 | 3,545 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_23 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The threads thus stiffened are now removed to another room, | 1 | 4,075 | 12 | 4,087 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_23 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 24 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | to be prepared for weaving, a preparation performed by hand, the threads having to be taken up, two at a time, in a peculiar sort of eyed mesh, by a girl, who passes them thus to a woman sitting face to face opposite to her, and who arranges and sets them ready for loom labours with a dexterous swiftness which defies t... | 1 | 3,691 | 469 | 4,160 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_24 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 24 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In inspecting a factory a few days before within the confines of Manchester itself, we had felt saddened at the prevalence of sickly-looking faces among the females, and the general untidiness and uncleanliness of their attire, heightened in most cases by the mixture of ill-assorted scraps of finery. Here, on the contr... | 1 | 4,203 | 152 | 4,355 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_24 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 25 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | joined in some instances with countenances whose portraiture might have graced a Book of Beauty. The effect would certainly have been still more pleasing had they trusted to their natural charms alone; but though necklaces and earrings were here, too, almost universal, even these lost much of the tawdry aspect they had... | 1 | 2,859 | 649 | 3,508 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_25 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 26 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | 386
WOMAN'S WORK IN THE WORLD'S CLOTHING.
Thousand living beings, three-fifths of whom are women, find employment among this machinery; and is it not a grand thought, that the smallest and weakest of them all, by reason of the spark divine within, has a measure of mastery over all this mighty force, and can at will d... | 1 | 3,243 | 491 | 3,734 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_26 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 26 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In ordinary times, such is factory work and such is factory life in this latter half of the nineteenth century; and a return made to parliament in 1856 showed that there were 2210 of these “mills” then in existence in Great Britain, in which nearly 300,000 power looms and more than 28,000,000 of spindles were kept in m... | 1 | 4,203 | 134 | 4,337 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_26 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 27 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | not less than half a million. About one-sixth of these are children or young persons, while the average excess of female over male operatives amounts to fifty-seven per cent. No less than 1,390,988,752 lbs. of raw cotton was imported into Great Britain in 1860, and the value of the manufactured cotton exported during t... | 1 | 3,243 | 555 | 3,798 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_27 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 27 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | The wet harvest-season of 1852 must have left an indelible impression on the minds of every thinking creature living at the time. An uneasy feeling, the grave foreboding of a great | 1 | 4,075 | 45 | 4,120 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_27 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 27 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | LXX.—A WELL-AUTHENTICATED GHOST STORY.
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EWJ-1864-02-01 | 28 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | national calamity, possessed all classes. Insufficient food, if not actual starvation, inordinately high poor rates, if not ruin, were the gloomy anticipations even of the dwellers in cities; how deep therefore must have been the despondency of those who actually saw the mighty havoc going on around them. A plentiful h... | 1 | 2,859 | 638 | 3,497 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_28 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 29 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | "Surely," mamma ventured to say, "some will be saved; the wind even now may spring up, and a few hours of sunshine would do wonders. At the worst, you can kiln-dry your wheat."
"Don't talk nonsense, Mary," was the impatient reply; "if you had been brought up in a farm-house you would know better. Look there!" and he f... | 1 | 3,051 | 571 | 3,622 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_29 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 29 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The Clarkes—there was a large family—visited but little in the neighbourhood, they did not even frequently attend the parish church, but attended instead, a more fashionable place | 1 | 4,075 | 38 | 4,113 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_29 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 30 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | of worship in the next town. When they did appear in their large family pew, the clergyman got but a divided attention from the younger part of his congregation, who scanned with admiring eyes the Master Clarkes' ties and collars, or the Miss Clarkes' bonnets and dresses. I know the latter often set Harriet and me thin... | 1 | 3,825 | 383 | 4,208 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_30 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 30 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Alas, we did see! Again, the sun, as if not liking the look of things, shrouded his face, the sky again assumed its leaden hue, and the ready rain came down, drip! drip! drip! Oh, if Milton had lived through such a season, he would never have mentioned “Minute drops from off the eaves” among pleasant sounds.
That even... | 1 | 3,825 | 244 | 4,069 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_30 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 30 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | "Between twelve and two, See what the day will do." | 1 | 3,825 | 13 | 3,838 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_30 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 31 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | finishing stitches to a handkerchief I had embroidered for a cousin who was to be shortly married. I had been asked to her wedding, but the new gloves and ribbons, to say nothing of a new dress, which were indispensable for such an occasion, were not to be had, and, so, reluctantly enough I had declined.
The figures u... | 1 | 3,115 | 631 | 3,746 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_31 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 31 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | I readily obeyed, for my curiosity was stronger than my fear; shading the candle with my hand, I followed my father into the passage. No one there! We examined the front door; it was bolted, and an iron bar put across as usual. "The glass door | 1 | 4,203 | 61 | 4,264 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_31 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 32 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | into the garden," I suggested. We went there; as I held up the candle to the sides of the little lobby, from which it led, I half expected to see the dark figure and feel its eyes fixed upon me from among the cloaks, coats, and garden bounties, which hung against the walls. I could not help shuddering, and perhaps turn... | 1 | 3,115 | 537 | 3,652 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 32 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | I saw Betsy, who was drawing the window curtains, at the word "ghost," turn and stare at us, and I felt sure that through Minnie she would soon be in possession of the story of the mysterious appearance. | 1 | 4,075 | 52 | 4,127 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 33 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | From that night forward, ours was a divided family; divided between believers and unbelievers, my mother and sisters belonging to the former, my father and myself to the latter. Numerically, mine was the weaker party, and although, comprising the head of the house, might seem to restore the balance, it did not really d... | 1 | 2,859 | 592 | 3,451 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 33 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | VOL. XII.
22 E | 1 | 4,203 | 8 | 4,211 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 34 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | of Lion on that evening, I experimented on the stairs' door to find out if it could be opened and shut without much noise, as in that case, anyone could have made his exit from one of the chamber windows quite easily; but I got no nearer my object. Betsy persisted she had never left the kitchen, Tom that Lion had been ... | 1 | 4,075 | 338 | 4,413 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 34 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | That terrible history of the young girl “worked to death” has made fine ladies, and ladies not fine at all, pause and think, “Am I to blame? Am I in any way an accomplice in causing this wretched girl’s misery?” A young lady with tears in her eyes told me she had often had her bonnets from Madame E., and that in conseq... | 1 | 4,075 | 252 | 4,327 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 34 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | (To be continued.)
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LXXI.—ACCOMPLISHES.
__________ | 1 | 4,075 | 23 | 4,098 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 35 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | flowers in which emerald green is used, have written very detailed reports, and all those who have taken the trouble to read the evidence, must be convinced that these employments are always unhealthy and sometimes fatal. Now when fully convinced that the production of certain articles causes terrible disease and suffe... | 1 | 2,859 | 675 | 3,534 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 36 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | The most important of all our duties except one, the knowledge of our duties towards men, includes many things whenever we have power, we have duties and responsibilities; whenever we can influence the fate of our fellow men, we have moral duties which it is incumbent upon us to study. We ought to have a knowledge of t... | 1 | 3,691 | 438 | 4,129 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_36 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 36 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | With us, in our crowded and complicated life, arise new duties and new sins. Not the less are we responsible for all the labour we employ than the man on the New England farm. It is one of the kinds of knowledge which it is a sin not to acquire. We ought to know the history of what we buy for use, for clothing, or food... | 1 | 4,075 | 152 | 4,227 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_36 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 37 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Economy, with a Member of Parliament, who was buying drawings, and was known for his great benevolence and equal sagacity, and ranked with the political economists and reformers of his country. “I like to spend my money in this way,” said he, “better than in fine furniture, and the usual luxuries of life, because I thi... | 1 | 2,923 | 610 | 3,533 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_37 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 37 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | . This proposition was not listened to for a moment seriously, | 1 | 4,203 | 12 | 4,215 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_37 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | and why not? Would it have answered the purpose if all England had refused to wear slave-grown cotton? Certainly it would have discouraged slavery to the same extent that our demand has encouraged it. Slavery is only profitable in the production of a few commodities, and cannot, like free labour, be rapidly applied to ... | 1 | 3,819 | 436 | 4,255 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | This war is not the only evil that was imminent in such a state of society as that of the slave States. A slave insurrection is always possible. When, four years ago, I stood in the auction room, at New Orleans, and after hearing the bids for a steam-boat, I saw men and women sold, sometimes with their little children,... | 1 | 4,203 | 175 | 4,378 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 39 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | we in England are apt to forget what slavery is, therefore I say this for my testimony as an eye-witness, having lived nine weeks in New Orleans, and many months in the slave States, that the institution is degrading alike to masters and slaves, and that progress and Christian virtues are incompatible with its existenc... | 1 | 3,115 | 533 | 3,648 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_39 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 39 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In some ways, too, from their usual position of living a little apart, and withdrawn from the active business of the world, women should find it easier to form wise judgments. Of a man intensely occupied in active life, one may predict his | 1 | 4,075 | 52 | 4,127 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_39 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 40 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | opinions almost certainly by knowing what are his interests and surroundings.
It is to be ardently desired that women should make use of the opportunities they have—to be ardently desired also, that they had wider opportunities; but we would gladly see in the heads of households some dim discerning of what a grand pla... | 1 | 3,627 | 444 | 4,071 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_40 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 40 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | A PAPER READ AT THE SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESS. By JESSIE BOUCHERETT.
There is a general impression that the difficulty of providing for our large numbers of single women is occasioned solely by an inequality in the numbers of the sexes; and that this | 1 | 4,203 | 60 | 4,263 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_40 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 40 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | LXXII.—ON THE CAUSE OF THE DISTRESS PREVALENT AMONG SINGLE WOMEN. | 1 | 4,203 | 26 | 4,229 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_40 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | inequality is something new, and the result of civilization. I propose to show that it proceeds from some other cause, besides the inequality of numbers in the sexes, and also that both the difficulty and the inequality, far from being modern evils, are extremely ancient, and are felt in uncivilized as well as civilize... | 1 | 3,243 | 498 | 3,741 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_41 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In our own country, the difficulty of providing for superfluous women seems to be an old one, for Lady Juliana Berners, an abbess, who lived in Edward the Third's reign, and wrote a book, speaks of “a superfluity of nuns,” and not long afterwards, I have read that a law was passed forbidding men the use of the distaff ... | 1 | 4,203 | 94 | 4,297 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_41 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 42 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | might be left to single women. A trace of this old law, which, perhaps, preserved spinning as an employment for women, remains in our language, in which an unmarried woman and a “spinster” are synonymous terms.
We see, therefore, that the inequality of numbers between the sexes, and the difficulty of providing for sup... | 1 | 2,859 | 595 | 3,454 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_42 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 43 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | excluded, while the condition of those admitted is one of unhappiness and uselessness, and the waste of good working material equally great in both cases. To me the first defect seems the worst. Often, in London, when the over-crowded wards are closed, women, sometimes a crowd of women, are shut out and left to spend t... | 1 | 2,859 | 664 | 3,523 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_43 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 44 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | what is to become of the men who had intended to enter them? If a ladies' hairdresser brings up his daughter to succeed him instead of his son, what is the son to do? There is no room for more men in other trades, so he may be compelled to emigrate, and if he is not adventurous, if he loves ease, if he shrinks from lea... | 1 | 3,499 | 560 | 4,059 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_44 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 44 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | I have dwelt on the universality and antiquity of the difficulty experienced in disposing of superfluous women, because it is sometimes thought, that the difficulty we now labour under, is only temporary, and occasioned by a particular crisis in civilization, which will presently pass away of its own accord, and, of co... | 1 | 4,075 | 118 | 4,193 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_44 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 45 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | to give it a rational and humane answer, and it is probable that the successful solving of the problem will be one of the highest triumphs of Christianity and civilization.
In barbarous times and countries, the women were got rid of, without regard to humanity, but when the light of Christianity spread over the world,... | 1 | 2,859 | 582 | 3,441 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_45 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 46 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | women might have been comfortably supported by it, who will now have to be maintained by the rates, or be forced to live by dishonest means.
One of the strongest objections to the introduction of women into trades, is the danger lest the consequent reduction of men's wages might render it necessary for married women t... | 1 | 2,859 | 695 | 3,554 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_46 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | effort of leaving home is once made, it seems certain that men are happier when engaged in active out-of-doors work than when employed in sedentary labour, which being unnatural to men, almost invariably injures their health. The Colonies would be greatly benefited also by the change, their prosperity being checked by ... | 1 | 2,859 | 600 | 3,459 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_47 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | whenever a false step has been taken, some suffering must always be endured in retracing it, and in employing men in trades suited to women a false step has been taken. Mr. Howson, the Professor of Political Economy at Dublin University, has remarked that to employ men to do work which can be as effectively performed b... | 1 | 2,923 | 566 | 3,489 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The employment of women in France is rapidly extending in | 1 | 4,203 | 10 | 4,213 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | all trades which require neatness, taste, or delicacy of touch. The law there forbids workmen to strike unless they can obtain leave from the government on shewing good grounds of complaint; and the government does not consider the introduction of women sufficient cause for a strike, nor will it permit of threats, viol... | 1 | 3,949 | 224 | 4,173 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Speeches, Lectures, and Letters. By Wendell Phillips, Boston. James Redpath, 221, Washington Street, 1863.
"The fate of the slave," says Miss Bremer, "is the romance of our history." Looking back over the centuries to the crusaders, led by the fire-heart of Peter the Hermit, to rescue the holy places of Palestine from... | 1 | 3,949 | 326 | 4,275 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | LXIII.—NOTICES OF BOOKS.
_______ | 1 | 3,949 | 13 | 3,962 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | made the history of modern Europe. The conflicts of Hungarians, Poles, and Italians, have been those of proud nationalities or races for political rights or existence, the struggles of brave men for their own power or territory; and as such, they have kindled, as they deserved, admiration and sympathy in all hearts whi... | 1 | 3,051 | 547 | 3,598 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the representatives are more generally those who have borne, in their own lives and experiences, the history of the ideas they advocate, and the scars of the wrongs against which they plead. Doubtless, all work is composite; and Tell, or Luther, or Washington, merely add up each a column of figures, which has been long... | 1 | 2,859 | 585 | 3,444 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 52 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | it is to sympathise with Lovejoy, or the slaveholders he has attacked, a majority of both speakers and audience being, however, clearly on the side of the latter. Here a Mr. Austin, attorney-general for the commonwealth, arose, and in reply to an address by Dr. Channing, protesting against the mob-violence, delivered a... | 1 | 4,075 | 327 | 4,402 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 52 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Here there was a violent uproar, with mingled applause and hisses, and cries of “Take that back.” The Hon. William Sturgis came forward to Mr. Phillips’ side, and was met with violent cries of “Phillips or nobody,” “Make him take back ‘recreant’—he shan’t go on till he takes it back.” Mr. Sturgis conjured them, “by eve... | 1 | 4,075 | 366 | 4,441 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | when the king did but touch his pocket. Imagine, if you can, his indignant eloquence had England offered to put a gag upon his lips."
This was followed by thunders of applause, and from this moment the star of the attorney-general declined, and the young orator stood triumphant, with the entire crowd held by the spell... | 1 | 2,859 | 589 | 3,448 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | his confident expectation of a full redress for all wrongs at their hands. They begin by howling at him, demanding that he shall retract his words; and again and again the faithful reporter tells of hisses and uproar. In the ten years covered by these speeches, the American newspapers have brought us accounts of Mr. Ph... | 1 | 3,115 | 693 | 3,808 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "The fault that I rather choose to note is, that the owner of the brig Acorn can walk up State Street, and be as honoured a man as he was before; that John H. Pearson walks our streets as erect as ever, and no merchant shrinks from his side. But we will put the fact, that he owned that brig, and the infamous uses he ma... | 1 | 4,203 | 93 | 4,296 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | yes, his CHILDREN, will gladly, twenty years hence, forego all the wealth he will leave them to blot out that single record." [Some one here calls for three cheers for Mr. Pearson, for which only one or two voices were raised, upon which Mr. Phillips said,] "Yes, it is fitting that the cheer should be a poor one, when,... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,558 | 7,276 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | This conspicuous triumph of anti-slavery principles in America, then, was brought about by men who had neither ballot nor representation. Indeed, the whole conflict was against the ballots which always fell most numerous on the side of slavery. But Mr. Phillips trusts the masses really just where they may best be trust... | 1 | 3,755 | 498 | 4,253 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Notes on Hospitals. By Florence Nightingale. Third Edition. London : Longman & Co, 1863.
Cut off by the weakness of an invalid condition from any longer rendering active service herself, the heroine of the Crimea yet exerts herself to send forth words of wisdom to direct the activity of others, and how much such direc... | 1 | 4,203 | 111 | 4,314 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | (To be continued. ) | 1 | 4,203 | 6 | 4,209 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | that it should do the sick no harm, it is quite necessarily never theless to lay down such a principle." It was indeed the high death-rate in hospitals as compared with that among the sick elsewhere, which first led Miss Nightingale to examine into the defects of such institutions, and lay before the Social Science Ass... | 1 | 2,859 | 680 | 3,539 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | that when sick persons, who are more susceptible than the healthy, are insufficiently supplied with fresh air, fever and other disorders should be generated and propagated amongst them. Miss N. sums up the matter thus:—
“The obvious practical results of this view of infection is that abundance of pure air will prevent... | 1 | 3,179 | 566 | 3,745 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_58 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "The first principle of hospital construction is to divide the sick among separate pavilions. By a hospital pavilion is meant a detached block of buildings, capable of containing the largest number of beds that can be placed safely in it, together with suitable nurses' rooms, ward sculleries, lavatories, baths, water-c... | 1 | 4,203 | 97 | 4,300 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_58 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | or with the general administrative offices, except by light airy passages or corridors. A pavilion is indeed a separate detached hospital, which has, or ought to have, as little connection in its ventilation with any other part of the hospital as if it were really a separate establishment miles away. The essential feat... | 1 | 2,859 | 651 | 3,510 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 60 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | maintain the same medium temperature night and day, the air was found to be far from pure, and the death-rate became alarmingly high. Miss Nightingale's comment upon this interesting fact, is, that we should follow, not oppose Nature, and that as it is natural for temperature to vary continually, and especially to be a... | 1 | 2,923 | 622 | 3,545 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_60 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | With regard to Children's Hospitals, the preliminary question is first debated, whether it is desirable that such should exist, and the advantages and disadvantages of separating children from adults in sickness, are fairly set forth. The decision rests chiefly on the ground, of whether or no a sufficient number of sui... | 1 | 4,203 | 355 | 4,558 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | By no means the least valuable part of this book is the concluding appendix, in which Miss Nightingale treats of the vexed question of "Sisterhoods," and shows no small acumen in distinguishing the proportion of good or ill which may result from committing the management of Hospitals, more or less, to such communities.... | 1 | 4,203 | 241 | 4,444 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 62 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | authority. As instances of the evils attendant on the management "being entirely in the hands of 'religious,'" she mentions, "letting a patient die of a bed-sore because the nurse may spread the dressing for it but must not look at it; the leaving the wards at night, or when the 'community assembles, in sole charge of ... | 1 | 3,825 | 332 | 4,157 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_62 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 62 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | An article on "The Difficulties of Domestic Service," in this No. of the Victoria, meets the objection so often raised when aid is asked for any class of distressed women—"Why don't they go to service?"—by pointing out that however common may be the complaints about servants, it is not an increase in their number that ... | 1 | 3,825 | 267 | 4,092 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_62 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 62 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | The Victoria Magazine. No. IX. Emily Faithfull. | 1 | 3,825 | 12 | 3,837 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_62 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 63 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | homes, where they could be far more effectively prepared for service in other families. Much more self-denying benevolence would be required in carrying out this plan, but there can be little question but that much more good would be effected by it; and if but a few would attempt it, success might tempt many to follow ... | 1 | 3,949 | 161 | 4,110 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_63 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 63 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | To the Editors of the English Woman's Journal.
LADIES, I have by this mail received an account of some of the difficulties which Miss Rye has met with in her mission, and I have also received some independent, and therefore more particularly valuable, testimony as regards the truth of her statements, made in a letter ... | 1 | 3,949 | 530 | 4,479 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_63 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 63 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | LXXIV.—OPEN COUNCIL.
— | 1 | 3,949 | 11 | 3,960 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_63 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | forwarded to me, and in most of the important points Miss Rye has appended remarks with her signature: for example, the Report says, "The gate is locked at eight o'clock in summer and seven in winter." Miss Rye writes, "There was no lock." The Committee remark, "It is quite evident Miss Rye's credibility has been impos... | 1 | 2,923 | 897 | 3,820 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | . January 12th, 1864.
CATHERINE M. WEBBER. | 1 | 4,203 | 23 | 4,226 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | LADIES,
The paper on Female Middle-Class Emigration which has appeared in your January number, was written in October last; since that time £80 more of the sums advanced by Miss Rye from June, 1861, to May, 1862, has been returned; so that out of £150 advanced, £100 has been returned within two years. This is such a g... | 1 | 4,203 | 491 | 4,694 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Aukland, New Zealand, July 21st, 1863.
"IMMEDIATELY on presenting your note to the Rev. ______, I found that I had a friend indeed, he has been most kind: he at once recommended me to a Mrs. ______, with whom I came to terms, though they are rather low, but the duties are comparatively light, and I am now perfectly at... | 1 | 4,203 | 390 | 4,593 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | Extract of a Letter from Miss ——. | 1 | 4,203 | 8 | 4,211 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | LADIES,
The interesting article on "The Needlewomen at New York," of your January number, contains an error which is of some importance, for it makes the condition of those unfortunate persons appear to be not nearly so bad as it really is.
The writer remarks, "We say according to American ideas, for it is very notic... | 1 | 2,923 | 826 | 3,749 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_66 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 67 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | this remedy would not be found efficient in the hands of needlewomen; still, as the writer of your article observes, much good may arise from the combination of the girls in a respectable and intelligent way, either by aiding in the establishment of associations such as those above suggested, or by other means which ma... | 1 | 3,825 | 71 | 3,896 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_67 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 67 | 0 | 0 | text | 2 | I remain, Ladies, yours respectfully,
A. H.
22, Sion Hill, Clifton, 13th January.
DEAR MADAM, | 1 | 3,825 | 33 | 3,858 | B0C0R2 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_67 |
EWJ-1864-02-01 | 67 | 0 | 0 | text | 3 | I wish to suggest through your pages a plan in aid of distressed needlewomen, which from what I have seen and heard of the various efforts for their aid will I believe be found to meet the difficulty. It is a Workwoman’s Club; a light and airy room for women to meet in to work, where for 1d. or 2d. a day they will find... | 1 | 3,825 | 393 | 4,218 | B0C0R3 | EWJ-1864-02-01_page_67 |
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