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the present; to re-establish may be the work of centuries. We may and should, therefore, prosecute the improvement at once and assiduously. Dr. Clarke has suggested, that “ the keen eye and rapid hand of gain, of what Jouffroy calls self-interest well understood, is sometimes quicker than the brain and will of philanthropy to discern and inaugurate reform.” He says, —
“ There is an establishment in Boston, owned and carried on by a man, in which ten or a dozen girls are constantly employed. Each of them is given, and is required to take, a vacation of three days every fourth week. It is scarcely necessary to say, that their sanitary condition is exceptionally good, and that the aggregate yearly amount of work which the owner obtains is greater than when persistent attendance and labor was required.”
Unfortunately for woman and the race, few such cases of wise regard exist with employers ; but it is precisely this condition of things that ought to exist, and become not the exception, but the unvarying custom. If the same consideration for employees were