Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-11-28

'hou vert to initiate in going about and doinl
I good to others for know that dlcness, even /
= Iacconpaned by constant PRAYER, is odiols il
the sight Of the Alrnighty.-N Y Mirror.
=, Factory GIRLS.
The Library Of Health, published al Boston
and edited by Dr. AIcort, gives the following
\ picture of the condition and habits of New
england factory girl. The sketch is highly
4 colorej. but we fear it is too near the truth
The subject Ireatel of Is "bad air." and confae
neht, aud the case Of the factory girl is stated
by way Of strong illustration:
"LetGs trace the course of the factory girl.
ana see IT she is not truly destroyed. although
II he little more slowly, as if she should have
the lnguar vein Of the neck severed, or the
heart or The lungs pierced or accraed
'Shc is berett, perhaps early. of one or both
parents. She is often left with scrofuous
cons tutlon-the natural and inevitable conse.
1nence ola parents incorporate, dvspeptic, or
Ilcenllous habits. This constitution is one
which. above all others, requires plenty of
Wholesome but plain food, aud abun lance OF
"xerclsa in the open air. If this is not allowed
her, scroulous constitution becomes CON
SNmptive one.--tIer chest, naturally rather
slender, and made still more so, perhaps, by
her dr"SS, at length becomes seat Of disease :;
TO which, in all probability, is soon Joined dis
ease "fthe spine and Of the whole glanluIar
system. Her fair skin and red cheeks giv
place, first, TO Il sIckly deicacy, and after
wards TO uniform paIeness, mingled with
bIle. She cannot labor at household work, i'll
Is thought; she has not strength enough; and
her friends and RELATIONSHIP she has any -un-
willing or unable to support her without labor,
send her TO the factory.
"There she is immured from twelve TO six.
zen hours every day except Sunday, in thai
bad atmosphere Of which have spoken. NorI
'ny ls 1t wanting in oxygen, the vital princi-
pie. ard abundant in Carbonic acid, most nox-
oaS agent, but it Is also filled with fine parti-
les % oar sIhs'ance or another, which is per.
p3iually inhaled, and is as pcrpetualy Il source
1i irritation to the already tender and delicate
su face OF the lungs.
"3ut not only is she confnnd above hall her |
twenty iolr hOdrs in the air Of the factory
she IL also buried in slumber in an atmosphere
Irtle beter, almost all the other half. Ven |
IlaiI"n OF sleeping chamber cannot be expect
II in boarding house, which. without b.ing
!! extraordinary size, is made TO hod-not to
econ nolate-from fifty To one hundred re. h
male a .,ers Nor is the dir ofsuch house
er'ecty pure al any hour-above all, at meal
ones. The Consequence is, that the young Y
tcIory girl is confined TO 9 poisoned atmos- (
here, at least twenty hours of every twenty I;
more. Aud where is she the resi- i
the tIme3 Does she breathe as she should?
she employed III washing, ironing, garden Y
lg, or walking? She is indisposed to every 5
'"c'es ol excrlIon, except. perhaps, a little Ii
Iy gnldng IN the evening, a1i little novel h
ding AT IA worse holr sui. o
Ills II 10 be wondered at, that after few .
Ears -sonetlmcs evan before the lapse Of six +
pnths--thc factory girl grows feeble, loses q
tr apPcite, becomes emaclated, goes home D
haply she has hon9-Sickens AMI dies = /
at Is not this, in substance, the history Of Id
any IL female, even of our own gooly New O
ngIand? And are not such females, slowly W
"ugh II be without malicious intent, murder. cI
!! Ii he who love h not his brother or sister 10
IN the gospel sense, murderer, is not this ST
urdcr? NJ
True 1t is, and the more to be lamenel, "
al females sometimes 80 10 these places vol to
IlanIy,or with the consent of respectable but st
or parents. All are not orphans who are ey
US murdered. Sill large propo ton Of the al
;tlWs oi our factories are lmnurei in them te
ainst their will; and for The very reason no
iIch sholld deter US from sending them III
thrr-b.cause they have a feeble or sicky lie
IS ltutlon. sa
I'll parents. masters, guardians houses ofin- tn
Stry, aims houses, &c, must-lhat il will hl
I'd any Of our females 10 factories, to be de- lib
III effect, tho pure and free light and air az
heaven; and either to perish sooner or later r
; nsrlves, or be the efficient cause OF u sckly BY
! miserable p roseny, m the name ormcrcy en-
rseI', let them select for this purpose the or
ongest and most robust. Some of them ST.
gh,, perchance, withstand the evils to which ei
y are doomed, al least till Providence or co
cumsances release them; but the already wi
Inflated and sickly can hardly hope TO cs.
&c.
But scrofula, and disease OF tho spine, and
S"mprons, are lucei by nha ing impuriry.
innaioGS INTO the subject, made by pub ic Us
horty, in Great Britain, have elected facts 'ol
ch sHouId admoniSh Us, for, be il remember. Pc;
that the same causes operating in America, we
not fail, in duo time, 10 produce similar eff sar
s to those in Great Britain. factory is Of
DRY, AMI bad ri4 bad air, BE- it where its sea
7, IN one country or season, or another" it v
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