The Value of Women.
■♦ Judging from the following particulars a woman, as aa article of commerce, is not much thought of in the neighborhood of Whitwood Mere, near Wakefield. The market price of a collier's wife, young, healthy, and tolerably attractive, appears to range from four pence halfpenny to six pence. Twenty five pounds is the ordinary price of a black woman in countries where a woman more or less is not much thought of, and where the law is not curious about a woman being whipped or worked to death. An Englishwoman ought in the home market to be worth more than a biack woman. Yet a collier at Whitwood Mere offered his wife for fourpence halfpenny, but was lucky enough to meet with a prodigal purchaser who recklessly offered sixpence, and forthwith bore off his property. Let us charitably hope that she was cheap at the money. __________
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 43, 13 September 1883, Page 3
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149The Value of Women. Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 43, 13 September 1883, Page 3
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