A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil

Jane Addams

Capitolo 94

offends as that of national service, and in this confirmation the
every matron's experiments in a house of liberation and the statistic in the
maternity defends some public hospitals. The relationship suggests that the
danger comes from the general conditions of job:  "This general
conditions are the loneliness of the life, the lack of the opportunities for
friends that do and assuring recreation and fun in safe
outskirtses, the monotonous one and non interesting nature of the job
as these girls not trained make him/it the lack of the external stimulus to the pride,
and proper love and the defenseless state absolutely of the girl, except
when directly under the eye of his/her owner."

Besides these reasons, the girls understand, that the opportunities
for marriage it is less on call national that in the other occupations, and
later everything, the great business of youth you/he/she is assuring a consort as the young one
instinctively understands. Otherwise from girl that he/she works that he/she lives home and
continually he/she meets the young men of his really district and the life of factory, the
on call national girl is brought in contact with very little possible
in love. Also the men of his/her first knowledge, however slightly
Americanized, doesn't like to call on a girl in someone the other kitchen,
and it finds the situation to embarrass whole. The owner of the girl knows
what for his own daughters you interest mutual and recreation I am the
natural foundations for the friendship with the young men that are able or they are not able
conducts to marriage, but that it is the prerogative of every young girl. The
however, owner doesn't apply this worldly wisdom to the houseservant in her
shelters, only eighteen or nineteen years old, suddenly dependent on her
for rescue of social life during one afternoon and evening a week.

The majority of domestics has a job in families where there is only
one and the tired one and dejected girl, often without a taste for
reading, a lot of solitary times it passes. That more principle and powerful person of
all the instincts don't have therefore opportunity for diffusion or social expression
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