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429 OPEN COUNCIL.
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To The Editor Of The English Woman's Jou...
hundred Perhaps among some the of your number readers of poor will in say London , " Only ? " six To hundred such my ! wh answer at is six is , ladlextend " During the last
weeks for " Give relief we us the have and means if been we , and obli had ged we the , will for means want g , an y of opportunity room , our to send charity will away soon . many be afforded applicants of of
securing Charity h not is ; larger the absolutel only premises charity correct . The for for assertion respectable the advertisement of Mr persons . Cocks , of is , , another that I believe this small House , almost Home , thoug y ,
de of s the cribes same itself descri as ption equall , for y in destitute want of g support irls , may , and be seen overrun in the with Times app , licant which s
unable for Now assistance to let receive me . ask , from what want is to of become funds of ? the If they girls whom apply for these admission charities to are a
workhouse istrates , ' they courts will show probabl that y it be is quite refused customary , for frequent to refuse complaints admission in , and the
provide those that mag a who shilling food are and a denied week lod , g and ing indoors . a loaf The relief of Saturday bread , and declaimers is with Review the which outdoors observes fond they allowance of are on this expected g subject iven that to to in ,
" There land is a fine phrase man which has a ri patriotic ht to live . The metrop are olitan vestries using , know better Eng than every that poor . Spite the of the theoretical g the Poor ri law ght is to a live tolerabl , deaths efficient from want instru are
onl ment y too of common reliefin . London In country considered in comparison - with y the masses it has to deal withit ; is almost a , dead letter The police courts are
b doors constantl the on police y starving occup , . The ied men mag with and istrates comp women laints send , who , sting that have ing the been messages workhouses picked in the up have in hope the shut of streets goad their
more ing of y guardians the than workhouse sting or ing directors authorities words know to bring to that do such hard their a words p duty henomenon . break But no it to requires bones pass . , and The something that boards the madethe better for the ratepayers
poor It more is int a public great o the the discovery street cases , they of to misery can have in are found duce themselves charitable out , , that simp peop l le y at by the shutting West out End . the to
take But the unluckil cost of poor for respectable relief upon persons , the charitable . " people at the West End have just at present y no sympathy for them , _instantl it has all gone hundred away hands to other
stretched objects . Let out to a g save irl once her fall and into a dozen vice comfortable , and penitentiarie y a s are opened are to receive herinto which , she is invited , exhorted , implored to enter . But
had neither a home entreaties been , opened nor exhortations to her a few to days enter before , she would , she would have have been required but too of life under roofThenhow
thankful ever , they too to full were receive to denied receive the her necessaries her ; the she workhouse was a mere shut uninteresting her a warm out , the charitable destitute . nouses , girl of - were ,,
good care should d character what becam an , without obstacle e of her a . to vesti Now receiving ge surely of romance charitable it is not attached ri relief ght that . to It a her cannot good , and character be nobod right y prove
that stand peop who le are should in danger be more of falling willing . to raise the fallen , than to help those to induced which I write , to to this assist decide in among hopes in favor that the numerous some of the of House your charities _leader of Charity now s , who calling 9 are Rose perhaps for Street aid , doubting may Soho be
Square Journal . I write some , als of o , whom because are . X not know unlikel that y to many become charitable , , , hereafter persons , founders , take i
your most of it is Institutions a neg mockery lected , themselves cla to _'sses talk are of ; the the and respectable workhouse I would urge as ones an upon , and unfailing them that , in p that lace London at of present refuge , at leas the for t , OP
destitute respectable girls . . . Q .
429 Open Council.
429 OPEN COUNCIL .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page 429, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/69/
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