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EMIGRATION FOR EDUCATED WOMEN. 3
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Ixtrodttctio^. Among The Many Emigration...
instructions as to the kind and number of educated women required , the situations vacantor likely soon to become vacanttogether
, , with all such information as may assist the Home Committee , and promote , most advantageously to both countriesthe objects in
, view . c ( 2 . The local committees , or agents appointed by and res _23
_onsible to them , to receive the ladies on their arrival , to direct them to safe and respectable lodging's "when necessary , andin all cases
, , to protect and assist them while character and conduct remain ¦ unimpeachable .
" 3 . The application of no candidate to be entertained who is not able at once to produce the most satisfactory referencesinto which
, , in all cases , the strictest inquiries will be made , and personal guarantees required .
" 4 . The Home Committee will endeavor to procure assisted passages ; and while it reserves the right of determining how far it
will assist candidates with money from the Special Emigration Fundit will in all , save extreme caseslook to the repayment of
, , the sum advanced through the local committee of the port to which the candidate is bound , guaranteed hy relations or friends at
home . " 5 . The London Committee will also give the protection of this
organization to single ladies , with means of their own , desirous to emigrate ; and will , in every way , use its influence for the
promotion and safe conduct of the Emigration of Educated Women . " Cordially agreeing , both with the object the Society has in view
, and the means by which it proposes to carry out that object , we have much _pleasiire in thus bringing the matter before our readers ,
. and warmly commend it to their notice . Among other difficulties with which this Society has to contend
the fact that it is not a charity is by no means the smallest . En- , glish benevolence is so accustomed to run in this groove , that the
simple but invaluable endeavor to help women to help themselves , to forestall destitution and its fearful concomitants—in a wordto
, prevent instead of to cure—like all new ideas , has to strike root for itself ere it can bear blossom and fruit .
With a firm belief in the high importance to the world at large of the successful development of this ideawe earnestly solicit the
, co-operation of all who have information , time , money , or thought to bestow .
the It subject is our of intention emigration to give such , from as time the one to time which , practi now cal follows articles and on
, , we invite all who have anything to say upon the subject , any munication experience or knowledge to contribute , to place themselves in
comreceive their with aid . the Editors of this Journal , who will thankfully The present article is from a lady long resident in New South
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Emigration For Educated Women. 3
EMIGRATION FOR EDUCATED WOMEN . 3
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1861, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031861/page/3/
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