text: " The presence of the female attendants at the stalls a sight completely at variance with Asiatic ideas is also noticed with marked disapprobation--"Most of them were young and handsome and seemed perfect adepts in the art of selling their various wares; but I could not help reflecting on seeing so many fine young women engaged in this degrading occupation on the ease and comfort enjoyed by our females compared to the drudgery and servile employment to which the sex are subjected in this country