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    THE MARKET FOB EDUCATED FEMALE HABOR. 15...

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    the superior gentility of governesship should be discouraged . It is the overcrowding- of the lower departments of that profession which

    _, causes such , a frightful competition and depression of salaries . There will always Be a fair demand and hihfor the very

    highest class of female teacher , who educates the g , daug pay hters of the nobility and gentryand fits them in manner and conversation for

    , the station they will be called upon to fulfil . But why should tradespeople , housekeepers , and widows of all rankstry and make their

    , girls inferior half-accomplished teachers , instead of honest happy business women ? _Wliy should they drive them into an

    _unprogressive profession , while even in a shop they would have more liberty and leisure and power of making "way ?

    Of course , in . urging parents not to make governesses of their daughters , if they can possibly help it , ve must look out and try to

    open other paths . "Why , if women must work , are they to Ibe obliged to work only at the hardest ,, most ill paid , and unpleasant

    employments ? Are they stronger , more hopeful , more persevering , that by social arrangements they are prevented from workingin .

    the progressive and more attractive employments , and thought , to lose caste if they enter into business ? It was once thought that a

    gentleman could only earn his bread as a soldier ; yet even merchants and lawyers are now admitted under that exclusive name ! It is but

    a small list , that of employments now possible ; but it will widen every day . Let eyery father who has no money to leave his daughter

    see if he cannot educate and place her in some respectable work ; telegraph clerk , book-keeper , woman of business , quelconque ; surel

    in our commercial country it may be done . As to the arts and y literature they must be left to individual-capacities .

    But the immense field of paid social labor , in schools , prisons , hospitals , workhousesremains to be worked ; and for this the

    , woman ' s ordinary domestic training does in a great measure render her fit .

    Thirdly . Every parent who can save money ought to insure his life for his daughters . It is lamentable to think how small a

    proportion of our population insures , when it is so cheap , so easy , so safe , and creates help for the women of a family just whenby the

    death of the helper , they would otherwise be left without resource , . But the large subject of insurance in all its branches deserves far

    more than a passing allusion , and the principle could be applied in numerous ways to the benefit of women .

    At the same time every effort should "be made to aid in every way female education . The education of women of all classes is

    lamentably deficient ; it is only necessary to read tlie Education Commissioners' reports to see how confessedly bad it is *

    Girls are not taught so well , nor so many branches of knowledge . as boys , and there is a general indifference as to whether they make

    any progress or not . I earnestly desire to see benevolent effort

    directed into this channel . I wish to see' the profession of tha _*

    The Market Fob Educated Female Habor. 15...

    THE MARKET FOB EDUCATED FEMALE HABOR . 151

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1859, page 151, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111859/page/7/