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    428 open council.

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    To the Editor of the English Woman's Jou...

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    To The Editor Of The English Woman?S Jou...

    the attendances pay is about in the Is . 9 year d . for , and each occupy attendance a large This portion will not of be the deemed organist ' s extra time ;

    . an - vagant church remun which eration isin commercial for a well-trained hrase musical " a ing professor of " experience and where at the a

    young incumbent woman , ' s income —it , was is , large at least ; , but a p moiet . £ 20 y a , of year her pay was profits of concern . importance Besides , she to this had poor exr

    app perienced lications enoug , been h of Informed the exclusion that of " ladies women were system not , eli having gible , " in and rep , ly this to three too

    g from iven small to amateurs district , who churches are city , where clerks the . appointments She was induced have to been make subsequentl a respect , y - , ful lication to the incumbent and

    rid a per nattering of app annum * , and a . testimonial gentleman The result . amateur was The a clever notice likewise but of churchwarden dismissal poor a female clerk , accompanied s was for organist an . addi , has however tional been in , . her £ got b 10 y place , his friends being seat-renters , in the church city . I , am informed appointed that the amateur held the office for two weeks onl

    < £ 30 a year . y , although the salary for him was there the hood Twenty maintenance , is not much exactl pounds praise y of poor a a year per due , but so , to n with expected this far the from class chance to wealth of make the of y underpaid a , a y little respectable ields teaching but for a scanty appearance , in a income nei and ghbor ; deli and for

    -, reserve - public cacy in . not In thi wishing s rank their stands trials the female and humiliations organist in to question be paraded and for before the sake the

    of supp many orting others , it who is hoped are anxious the press to earn will a invite decent public maintenance opinion , , and to assist to be self not

    prevent , them in pursuing an occupation for which they are so well adapted , . I am , Madam , yours respectfully , H . A . Z .

    428 Open Council.

    428 open council .

    To The Editor Of The English Woman's Jou...

    To the Editor of the English Woman ' s Journal . Madam

    Rev I wish . Walter to call , Cocks attention Honorary to a letter Secretary which to _appeared the Plouse In of the Charity Times from account the

    p of lead which the Institution cause of , this _appeared charity in with your the pages more som confidence e months ago as it . is He , an I says believe , "I

    it the the is fallen onl singular y charity no , that one which while seems seeks we to have think to aid refuges of respectable the , reformatories persons and in , distress penitentiaries . , " Indeed for , , mspectable who

    plunged int , o misfortune through no fault of any their re own , and persons with no , ' one are to Here aid or , for assist instance them . , a To servan all such t girl , , this coming house is to a home London and to a liar seek "bor a of situation refuge . up

    of without of a the city House , any and ; friends not here onl , also y in so London , , the but widow most , finds likel recentl an y finds asy y bereft lum a situation from of her the husban throug many d h , temptations the and medium having ,

    to no start means her of afresh support . , finds a home for a time , and people willing , and eager So , also is , restored discharged while patients out from hospitals obtain food and rest till their

    strength ; -patients , too ill to workbut not ill h to p be lete admitted rest , ( and into comp a hosp lete ital rest , and to a perhaps working recommended person means , good be it food rememb enoug and com ered

    once simpl more y starvation strong , ) enoug find h here to tak a e home their and part all in that the great is requisite battle , of , till life they are ,

    There are many other cases of * a similar kind received into the House . the only passport the necessary being distress six and a good character . ,

    , have lod During ged obtained , for periods year situations now rang _. ing closing from , two hundz to ; six 'ed weeks persons , and have the been great boarded majority and

• Citation
  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page 428, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/68/