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The effect of the house upon women is as important as might be expected / of one continuous environment upon any living creature. The house / varies with the varying power and preference of the owner; but to a / house of some sort the woman has been confined for a period as long as / history. This confinement is not to be considered as an arbitrary / imprisonment under personal cruelty, but as a position demanded by / public opinion, sanctioned by religion, and enforced by law.
In the comparative freedom to "walk abroad" of our present-day / civilised women, we too quickly forget the conditions immediately / behind us, when even the marketing for the household was done by men, / and the conditions still with us for many millions of women in many / countries who are house-bound for life.