"The Distaff ."
PACTS ABOUT WOMEN'S WORK. Some generations since it was considered unnecessary, not to say impossible, for women to work ; in the last generation, it was often necessary, but never quite ••respectable ;" in our generation it has Hecome not only necessary, but essential ; nay, even desirable. VVhatever be the came, undoubtedly in the nineteenth century a large proportion of our women, old and young, navo either no masculine protectors at all, or such aB are praotioally useless, if not worse than useless. And though I believe that nothing will ever abrogate the natural law, that women's work should be within the home if possible, still, when impossible, the work must be accepted and done outside it. The working woman mny have a few undesirable characteristics, such as indifferenoe to dress »nd a tendency to rough hair, and not ever clean cuffs and collars ; but, take her for all, she is a much more interesting person tban your idle butterfly, the fashionable young lady. — Good Words.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2197, 7 August 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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166"The Distaff." Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2197, 7 August 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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