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    ti I 428 OPEN COUNCIL.

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    LXVI.—OPEJST COUNCIL. (As these pages th...

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    . 4 . To the Editors of the English Woma...

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    Ti I 428 Open Council.

    ti I 428 OPEN COUNCIL .

    Lxvi.—Opejst Council. (As These Pages Th...

    LXVI . _—OPEJST COUNCIL . ( As these pages themselves are intended responsible for general for the discussion opinions , expressed the Editors . ) do not hold ¦ ¦

    . 4 . To The Editors Of The English Woma...

    . 4 . To the Editors of the English Woman's Journal . ZlAIXEES

    , under The great readers obligations of your to _Journal French for March correspondent , were , as it for seemed her sensible to me ,

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    the of the remarks Journal , in that to he paper , lied which to in objections their turn ought and certainl with your y , for permission the credit ,

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    Coventry from starvation , a gentleman wrote , assuring mistake ladies that and the stating wearing It of maxim ribbon in for political the public good that , was no altogether one benefits a

    ; as a economy And the , commun certainl ity y , if by luxury what he and consumes boundless , but extravagance by what he were does conducive not consume to the . at thimomentthe most

    truth general country and under prosperity that the nowhere , sun France , whereas in Europe should , it is is be well the , duration known s that of human the , very life reverse cut prosperous so is short the

    last Imperialism b of y things an winter , habituall in , a has Paris paragrap y done deficient h for heart , cop France supp ied rending ly from , of " in the some which Amongst common periodical the writer necessaries other , and described symptoms headed of life . , the of " I What acute read state ,

    as -. their distress bread he mentioned in the streets the fact and that as if numbers to confirm of elderl what y had ladies been were said begg before ing , ;

    a statement appeared In the Times , , sl few weeks ago , of the frightful increase of lunacy in that ill-regulated country , —the number And of insane natural having

    increased result too , in for a very what few can years be , from so likel 12 , 000 to to have 60 , 000 driven . poor a creatures very to madness ; presentactual miseryaggravated y by the incessanthelless

    as , , , p , hopeless ? I wish dread of something of knew worse something still to come of political , and very economy rapidly for approach as it is

    ing we are in the some predicament us of the blind leading the blind ; but , , by the , light , of reason alonewithout any help from science , one may surely venture to

    say very that unprofitable of the dressing ountry , investment of I dolls ( much or for of the afraid Countesses vital that energ these de Mornay ies pretty and ) the must ladies material needs are habi be re a - -

    sources tuall " unproductive y guilty a c of consumption that . " am social . " And crime , as " known for sufferers the am money ongst from the that the cotton is initiated scattered dearth as

    reall then about y , there get who a knows is farthing a time where of for it ? it everything falls " S . , P or . " if . has the What an objection would hav to e almsg been iving thoug ; ht but of

    this them theoretical great , wages nation men ? The if were it had two looking left cases its into Lancashire are , space of course for operatives , some exactl good y to similar die excuse of . hunger The for this pay while cold sad ing

    blo crisis oded have apath been y and frequentl cruelty y commented of the upper on . classes " S . P in . " France is evidentl during y no reader of newspapers , , or she would hardly have volunteered her advocacy in so

    notoriousl I will onl y y bad add a , in cause conclusion . , that when she talks of your correspondent ' s

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1863, page 428, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081863/page/68/