It is u boast often heard that there are greater variety of occupations open to women nowailays than ever before. Yet the fact is not without its drawbacks, for women are thus tempted into scores of positions for which they Are not fitted, with much consequent misery. Thousands of girls, especially in
writers and telegraph instruments, stand on erica, sit all day ammering at type-their feet for a dozen hours at a'stretch in shops and stores, and bend over desks at some sort of writing, till their muscles and head ache together. In both England and America hey labour in factories long hours over hard and' monotonous tasks, often in a fearfully Yad atmosphere, and for small wages. When Cly. they. break down, the expense of having physicians, coupled with other costs of illness, Tvapt to consume their little savings. 'There. fore any information which will enable them to lessen such an outgo must be welcomed by the host of working women, 'On this point a Fecent letter received by us may' throw a ray of light. The writer says: tingers solely for a living it is a terrible thing "*AVhen a woman has to depend upon Ker to fall ill, even {house it may be only for few days or weeks. "This was my own situation wen I was first taken bad about ten years ago. It began with what I shall have to describe as a heavy, sinking feeling at the pit of the stomach, and a sensation of yiddiness and faintness whilst at meals. On rising; from the table I would often. be attacked with palpitation of the heart, which beat so I didn't know what to do with myself. Some days I would not eat a mouthful of solid food, much afraid was I of the pain it gave me. I have gone without food for three consecudays and nights, till I thought T must surely starve. At the same time the desire fo eat Was so great I could have clutched eagerly at the hardest piece of stale bread. Santos, Mr. and Mrs. J. Tavares and family' I got so bad I had to lie in bed for days, and Messrs. Corsar. Rodyk, Chin Nam and l'Abbé grew so weak I could scarcely raise myself on Oudot. For Japan—Messrs. Cocq-Port, and my elbows. I consulted doctor after doctor; Newland, Mr. anders. Jacques and son. I think I must have had not less than a dozen Per str. Neckar, from Bremen, &¢.—Mrs. altogether. One. called my illness by one O. Messing and children, Mr and Mrs. C. name, and the others by other names. No two A. Meyer, Messrs. A. Holm, G. Baur, H. J, of them agreed as to what it really was that Mandl, Angus Walker, T. W. Jamieson and ailed me." None of them did me any good, though my money went fast enough to thems and to buy the medicine they ordered, hai—Mrs, Bredon, "child and auh, Mrs. Per str. Calédonien, from Japan for Shang-"One day I saw in the Christian Age an Sutherland, Misses Sherwood and Clarke,
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