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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 61
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The Victoria Magazine. No. X. London. Em...
of cooking the writer depdt ' s for visit the to working the latter -classes lie informs . " In a us livel that y descri what ption had
seemed at first a rather hazardous , experiment , has proved , after in more a large than half light a year well ' s -ventilated trial , a perfect and success withal ; even and that tastefull while
, , , y painted dinner as room man , a need poor eat man , consisting may sit down of soup and , a " plate get as of good meat a ,
potatoes thoroughl , and fulfils plum the -pudding indispensable , for 4 _^ d . con " the dition establishment of being self yefc
supporting y " . Bent and taxes are duly paid ; the staff of assistants all lremunerated for their services ; a reserve set
aside for depreciation ampy of stock , and still a fair balance remains as interest on the ital invested .
By no means the cap least pleasant page of this Article is that which describes how the work of tlie establishment is carried
on . After avowing that to his view cc the management is perhaps the most hopeful and interesting part of the whole affair /'
Mr . Hughes adds : whether callings " Women , they for anything may are or not I am te " Were fi prepared t for I inclined all to the say to learned . dispute I have professions the not proposition made and up Industrial my I should mind
ri certainl ghtfull y not theirs do , most so in certainl . these pages y to my . But mind wh they atever have other an un functions answerable , may clai m dom is t
to that of preparing and serving the meals of mankind . Flunkeyoo p firml lush y and established powder , are polite nevertheless society now an abomina to be shaken tion ; , the but greater great hemen , because In , of them
lasses while for qui , ou th te t ey of oth are their er neg purposes natural lecting , emp t they he loymen use are keep t t . hose ing It huge will a like do limb therefore number s which any of God person neat gav -handed e of my _,
the persuasion st aff of more this first good L even ondon than _depO the t doing meal their s they work will . serve Said him staff with consists , to see of three a matron are dressed and sub- matron they , a lease clerk the , a res cook t in , and a nea six t uniform teen waiters jacke . t of The brown first
well heavy holland paid s . tores and The up well onl . and y fed male down The in stairs the irls , , establishment and chos goes on nd is messages a t p orter by . , t All who he wives of carries these of t t are he he
nei ood ghbouring characters _clergjr and . . They t an educa come g tion are in admirabl untrained en a , sen with tted to nothing train t hem fact for bu the t ge y
wives g of honest , men . They learn to cook , and get habits of order , cleanlithem ness situations , and laces , punctuality the i object private . of It houses the is managers not From intended being all that I to coul they fit d them gather shall for stay o service ther long an , in and be these t get ter
has open left ings p to in li fe n an d t unlikel veral of . y to those occur now to i them n office . Alread are engaged , more to than persons one
forman frequen c ting e of marry the their dep , ( duties 3 t , who But have I had am the bound advantage to add of th watching at courtshi their is per not - p
w allowed ill , over on London the premises , they will . . If offer these a new dining profession -places sp find , and read g , ive as assuredl a start y in they lifey
for hundreds of girls for whom it is now so hard to any opening . "
Notices Of Books. 61
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 61
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1864, page 61, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031864/page/61/
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