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    886 woman's woek in the world's clothing...

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    thousand employment living among beings this , th machinery ree-fifths of ; and whom is it are not women a grand , find b

    of thoug the ht spark , that di the vine smallest within , and has weakest a measure of them of mastery all , "y over reason all action ?

    over this And mi write their ghty but portal force the s , , and truth and can - thoug breathing at will h no direct motto spire and , , or " Laborare regulate pinnacle its est , or orare dome _"

    p equal gorgeous be lai th n , - er sized e p , ierced hue and apertures , the but onl li y the ght by for factory streams their windows walls regular not rise and throug rows monotonousl within h of pictured small for orga y , bare panes square n peal and of ,

    or quiring anthemsounds only the ; roaring of , steam and the mill rush s of " no countless mean spectacl revolving , e , in wheels this our —yet universe are these , to " the Lancashire eye and that the

    views crowds , them that throng thus , as them vast as tem offering ples of a dail labour y sacrifice -worship of , work to the e Source of all activity and Director of all energy .

    Suprem not But wanting the means for just of rendering without the more walls spiritual rose a neat service and also pretty are

    Gothic church , towards the erection of which the work-people themselves had , subscribed no less than three hundred pounds

    no On mean the opposite proof of side the rose interest a mass they of felt still in unfinished its establishment school- . , the

    buildings enlightened , intended and benevolent for the proprietor children of of the the mill operatives informing , us

    too that he meant his educational establishments to comprise a factory school . for Beyond teaching were cookery rows to of the neat girl littl s connected e cottages , with freehold the

    the tenements denoting flowers that of or the vegetables the operatives owners in spent many , purchased of their the leisure small by their gardens in own the healthful attached savings ,

    recreation of bringing their little territory into useful or ornamental cultivation .

    ordinary and Sick are funds illness well , supported too ; but , are in all in , a operation cases provision of accid among being ent , establishment notice the thus mill can secured -workers be sent who in _,,

    th to a medical ren gentl ders eman all connected attendance with the at the expense , of the ereupon firm necessary

    life In in ordinary this . latter times half , such of the is nineteenth factory work century and such ; and is a factory return

    these made " to mills parliament " then in in existence 1856 showed in Great th Britain at there in were which 2210 nearl of y

    were 300 , 000 kept power in motion looms while and more by 1860 than it 28 was , 000 reckoned , , 000 of that spindles five

    or six hundred more ; factories , had been , opened , and that the establishments

    total number of people employed in such were-

    886 Woman's Woek In The World's Clothing...

    886 woman ' s woek in the world ' s clothing-

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 386, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/26/