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FACTS AND SCRAPS. 427 V
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22, Sion Hill, Clifton, 13th January. De...
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LXXV.— FACTS AND SCRAPS.
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Edinburgh Society for Promoting the Empl...
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To The Editors Of The English Woman's Jo...
- as this the remed writer y would of your not article be found observes efficient , much in the good hands may of arise needlewomen from the combi ; still - ,
the nation establishm of the girls ent of in associations a respectable such and as intelli those gent above way suggested , either b , y or aiding by other in means which may be devised .
I remain , Ladies , yours respectfully ,
A . H .
Facts And Scraps. 427 V
FACTS AND SCRAPS . 427 V
22, Sion Hill, Clifton, 13th January. De...
22 , Sion Hill , Clifton , 13 th January . Dear Madam ,
needlewomen I wish -which to suggest from what throug I h have your seen pages and a heard plan of in the aid various of distressed efforts for their aid will , I believe be found to meet the difficulty . It is a
Workwoman for Id . ' or s Club 2 d . a ; a day lig th ht ey and will airy find room fire , for convenient women to seats meet and in to tables work , , and where a kitchen matron get for to where another cut they out , Id advise can each wash , and breakfast themselves protect dinner them and and ; their if tea with work all the , the and addition better where of th The ey a
can . , , , , . find profits their of their fellow work poor to will be their pay , own in other , and the words charges about th what ey mak the e such slop as shops they _charge garments their to be customers niade for . sale The as m cheap atron l will as those be , able shops to and get a materials fund for her for
doing so , and also for provision against y illness or accident ; , at first derived from some small amount of subscriptions , will soon be furnished by the Co workwomen -operative 's Store gains ; The and total the club amount deserve of subscri its second ption title to set of such Cheaj > a club Clothes on
. foot and provide necessaries would not exceed £ 10 . On the other hand , the a making safe and up and repairing much needed the materials branch of and business garments . It of is customers marvellous will how furnish the very
needle ( and the machine ) wanting work and getting it only as a serf of the - shop amount or of a work pensioner wanting of charit a doer y , in manages the very courts not to and meet alleys with where the enormous it lives
I remain , dear Madam , yours sincerel L y . , Solly .
Lxxv.— Facts And Scraps.
LXXV . — FACTS AND SCRAPS .
Edinburgh Society For Promoting The Empl...
Edinburgh Society for Promoting the Employment of Women . —The this Report Society issued was at the founded end of about 1863 recalls three years to the ago recollection through of the its exertions readers that of
after Miss attending Bessie Parkes the meetings and Miss of Emil the y Social Faithfull Science , on their Associ visit ation to at Edinburg G-lasgow h . A tion both Committee being for emp shared loyers having between and been those these formed seeking two , parties it emp was loyment determined The lists , the include to expenses establish teachers of a Registra Reg in ister
departmentfor schoolsfamiliesor private . instruction ; companionsmatrons every all for kin _public ds , book institutions , -keepers , , femal , hair- e dresses missionaries , , shop-g , irl and s , waitresses Bible-women , seamstresses , sick , nurses , and of daily workers in every branch of domestic employment ; to which it is hoped
telegrap aoon to add h , the other means employments of training , such for which as [ French have -polishing not yet and been working completed the . * V
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 427, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/67/
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