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    82 woman's wobk in the world's clothing.

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    Yet More Far Ancient From Having Than Ev...

    are tack to the unite pieces them together anen in readiness tleach for woman the machines thus preparing , which

    next about s three tage _, gross on opening of perm collars the per door y , day of . one Following of the them long rooms to the in

    devoted to the sewers , a clicking whirring din of _" machinery motion certainl " greets as that the of ear the with vast a International noise not quite Annex so overpowering or as that

    which almost y deafens the unaccustomed visitant in a , Lancashire room hardl mill , , y is yet practicable a double certainl row . y Running sufficientl of Thomas y down 's loud Sewing the to whole render Machines leng conversati , th at each of the on of

    health which busy feet y is looking seated the treadles a and young very of woman her tidily machine dressed , all , near , as l she y d without eac holds h pressing and excep guides tion with , a the few work seconds with to her change hands ; and pausing adjust , however itas she , continuall takes a y fresh for

    piece from the prepared fragments of linen , on one side of her and lays a stitched collar upon the heap on the other number side ,

    outwards of then these read we y the find to p be ieces in transmitted another which room have to , engaged the been " turners joined in turning . " together A right , side and

    adjusting them for the final stitching , which is carried on in intell another igent room and filled well-paid with workwoman machines , eac In h the presided next room over to by which an

    . th which ey pass is , here a dozen performed young women b . hand are . engaged A machin in button e has -holing been _,,

    y found invented for efficient effecting * and even at this process rate is , not but made it is said use not of at to this be

    establishment very ; but , the workers any in this department attain such collars a proficiency day , that each a having good " three hand button " will -holes finish . off Som six e of dozen this

    work is per sent out , to be doneand where several members of a family work together at the , employment , an out-door

    buttonholer will sometimes take home as much as £ 5 in wages at the end exertions of the : week , as the result of her own and her assistants * j |

    The finished article is now remitted to the Laundry , where it j t afterwards women is hat washed perfe , starched ction ( under by of hand b white y the another in mani glossiness the , pulation and ordinary finally which of manner is ironed ordinary rarel ) y b b y ever y laundresses a one third attained set into of \ i I

    . £ Some 1 135 of . these week _j _^ roficien and such t ironers here of ear course n , however command , no less the than best |

    skill attain per able . , wages f After ironing , all that remains to be done is to stamp in each the |

    warehous collar with e , and the maker then pack ' s name them , which neatly is in don dozens e by boys into boxes _; jj i ] I

    82 Woman's Wobk In The World's Clothing.

    82 woman s wobk in the world ' s clothing .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page 82, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/10/