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Page 37
... women were employed as nurses in ob- stetric cases , but except for these occasions nursing as a profession was unknown . The women in families took care of their own sick by day and depended on their neighbors for watchers at night . I ...
... women were employed as nurses in ob- stetric cases , but except for these occasions nursing as a profession was unknown . The women in families took care of their own sick by day and depended on their neighbors for watchers at night . I ...
Page 45
... women friends as do make suit or concern themselves in proposals of marriage , one to the other , do not dwell in the same house , from the time they begin to be concerned , until their marriage . " I think there was , up and down the ...
... women friends as do make suit or concern themselves in proposals of marriage , one to the other , do not dwell in the same house , from the time they begin to be concerned , until their marriage . " I think there was , up and down the ...
Page 46
... women whom I then knew were inter- ested in political affairs , it never seemed to trouble them that they had no share in the management of the subjects of their interest . The home cares satisfied them , and the idea of woman suffrage ...
... women whom I then knew were inter- ested in political affairs , it never seemed to trouble them that they had no share in the management of the subjects of their interest . The home cares satisfied them , and the idea of woman suffrage ...
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