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    318 NEEDLEWOMEN AT NEW YORK.

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    LIX.—NEEDLEWOMEN AT NEW YORK.

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    We have received two long 1 extracts fro...

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    Needs Emi In Society Bring Gration 'S In...

    len many t will years be . returned There seems , even every without reason having to hope recours that the e money to the

    been securities 1862 , returned ( before —for tli , by of e August formation £ 150 advanced last of the the Societ between earliest y ) advances Jun more e 1861 than being and £ 70 onl May had

    due in this present month . , It is , too _, worthy of notice that y while about £ 500 has been advanced to emigrants by the

    been Societ pai y since d by those its formation emigrants in themselves May 1862 , during more than the sam £ 800 e time has . At presentthe Society ' s funds are almost exhaustedand if it

    be does reduced not receive , to the continued condition support of from sister , the Association public , it , will which soon

    a emi u confines grants . " itself If , a at sum present of from , to furn £ 800 ishing to £ 1 advice 000 could to intending now be

    rate raised of , working the Society for could some continue yearsand operations it is much , , at to its be present wished

    is that val this uable could both be , as done introducing ; for the into , Societ the y colonies ' s work , practi thoug c h al small well- ,

    principled , women , able to make themselves generally usefu , l ; and alsoas assisting a much-suffering and most deserving class

    " to began obtain her , work remunerative in June 1861 employment more than . Since one hundred Miss Hye educated first ,

    women have been enabled to , obtain comfortable situationsand this while only a very few ports have been to the Society ,

    and while its organisation lias been hardly open completed . Could , it continue its operations for a few there seems

    matured reason to organisation hope that , with it would more be numerous able years to withdraw , openings considerable , and every more

    numbers from the sup , erfluous workers of England .

    318 Needlewomen At New York.

    318 NEEDLEWOMEN AT NEW YORK .

    Lix.—Needlewomen At New York.

    LIX . —NEEDLEWOMEN AT NEW YORK .

    We Have Received Two Long 1 Extracts Fro...

    We have received two long extracts from a New York newspaperentitled " The Would / ' iving accounts of a

    Needle-, g Women ' s Union in that city . As the possibility and the wisdom of any such movement among English needlewomen has been

    ' this occasionall transatlan y mentioned tic union in will this , we country are sure , some , prove of interesting the details to of

    to our American readers . ideas It appears , ) paid for that girl the s' work insufficient , had been prices attracting ( according the

    attention of the press and of certain of the workmenas well A as meri of can the ideas workwomen for it is of v New ernotic York e . abl e th at the according wr , etched to

    abject destituti , on common enough y among us , is not yet

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 318, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/30/