It will interest some to know that the whole of the printing of the preceding pages (except the working off, which is a distinct trade) was executed by women.[…]The real difficulties were rather, how to make what had hitherto been a man’s employment not fatiguing to women; or a sedentary employment healthy to the young, or interesting; how to combine instruction in household work, or, again, religious instruction with learning a trade; how to train the young women at once as printresses and yet as future wives and mothers; out of what class of respectable young women or girls to select those who were to be thus taught, and at what age they would best begin.
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The daughters of Moses ben Abraham, Ella and Gela, were industrious printresses. Gela, when yet in her teens, printed a whole prayer-book by herself,[…].
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Little Miss Dora McDonald, R. S. McDonald’s oldest daughter, who is now “running the ranch” kindly remembered the editor this week with a sack of cabbage of her own raising. Each head was fine, large and solid and was certainly appreciated by the little printers and printresses where we live.
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“Isn’t it awful, Mabel?” “The horrid, mean things!” “Just like a man!” And similar exclamations of wrath and indignation were heaped on the heads of the government printing officials by a hundred petite little printresses in the corridor of the Government Printing building in Washington the other day.
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