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    MEETINGS OP THE MONTH. 42T

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    0 Domestic Service.

    emp competition loyers , Is is rife tlie , thoug and in htlessness competing of - who customers shall be . most Among luxurious the great , they , too are , as apt to to the forget means others ' whereb ' weal ladies . It is may not do difficult something to mak to e hel practical the poor suggestions

    dressmaker . The season , for y instance , might begin earlier and p be protracted longer . Ladies of rank , too , might remember that there really are more than twenty-five dress-making houses in London . And againthe injurious

    system of requiring long credit might be altered ; for it may be , an _absolute y c ause ars' credit f failur to e to even a p the erson wealthiest in business customer , when ; she and has he to had give been at informed least two

    that this is ordinarily required of those who work for , the higher classes . , Government had been strongly urged to take up this question , for there are some persons who think Government can and ought to do everything ;

    but our statesmen are themselves overworked , and cannot therefore attend to all that claims their attention . Besides , legislation on social matters is with extremel the y difficult irit of the , and Eng , even lish nation were interference an ignorant with peop such le cannot matters be consistent legislated

    Into knowled sp ge . When that is well , distributed , Government need not intersomething fere : when in it the is matter not , G : overnment in the first p cannot lace , the . House Legislation should , h itself owever break , mi up ght and do

    go absurd to bed for a it little to declai sooner m , precepts and thus against set a good overwork example while ; for its it seemed practice almost continues to be what it now is . Secondly , it might issue a Commission to inquire

    into which the was evils appointed of overwork to inquire ; or , better into the still condition , a Board of of our Inquiry soldiers , like , after that the war In the Crimea . And , though it was a delicate thing for legislation to

    power Interpose mi _^ g in ht the be domestic extended , arrangements and some r of ight adults to inspect , yet perhaps conferred munici ; while pal , thoug to the h difficulty Ladies' Committees of obtaining of Inquiry reliable could evidence perhaps individual effect but exertion little , owing miht

    produce some result . Soldiers die necessarily b , y war ; doctors by diseas g e ; firemen by fire ; but dressmakers need not die by dressmaking ; and , if they did so , it was preventible , and ought to be prevented .

    that At he the hoped conclusion it would of be this printed interesting and circulated discourse , , in Dr . order ( Lankester that all observed might stud how y little it , and the have laws of the sanitation opportuni were ty of observed profiting the by deficiency it . He regretted being remark to see

    able- among the rich as well as the poor , in the , mansions at the West-end as the well case as in with the that back most streets essenti of al low condition neighbourhoods of health ; — and fresh especiall airthe y was lack this of

    which no other supplies could compensate for . He , too , advocated , the power of inspecting work-rooms , in order to ascertain if they could be occupied _, without injury to health .

    present At the , were close requested of the meeting to remain , any after emp the loyers rest who of the mig company ht happen had to dis be

    persed purpose , in of order promoting to consult a better whether state any of heal arra th ngements among th could eir work be made people for . the

    Meetings Op The Month. 42t

    MEETINGS OP THE MONTH . 42 T

    Often Home Miss Mad Sensibl E Sea Y The ...

    often Home miss Mad sensibl e Sea y the Water refreshing . —Inland salt residents water di returning to which from they a have seaside grown trip ,

    accustomed , and may therefore be glad of the p hint that under such circum- _,

    stances afford in an some extract measure of sea a -salt substitute recentl . y introduced by Mr . Tidman will really

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1863, page 427, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081863/page/67/