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M ADAME IATCE, OF ALGIERS. 167
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A Short Account Of The Life And Labors O...
are Happy and comfortable , hardly recognisable by their own relations
. In a moral point of view the effect is even more remarkable . The young native girl possesses a vivacity , an intelligence , a
promptitude of understanding , and a dexterity of motion which is unexand ampled _withoiit . All the necessity children of of repeating my class have itthe learnt simple in elements one lesson of ,
sewing , which any I thought it best to begin , with , and some of them in show an aptitude and it for is to reading me a true French satisfaction which would even seem a vividl prodigious felt Europe nayy
their pleasure little , to ; tasks see them and teaching crouched one side another hj side any , , working p , art whi 1 emulousl ch may y not at have been learnt , or have been forgotten ~ by any one amongst
them . Moreover , their may frank and lively character , their caressing and . affectionate manners , give me every hope of obtaining in future
a strong hold upon their , hearts . Such isM . le . Comtewithout exaggeration , without drawing
icture , for effectthe , actual situation of the' Institution , whose any p principle you have , kindly approved from the first . Thus sin
regarded ventur cerely e desire to , it merits the growth to the utmost of the African followin attention civilization conditions of serious , and . on men this who head I - g
To defray propose in some way you the expenses undertaken by me up to the present and which date it , is expenses henceforth which impossible have cripp for me led to my continue _xDrivate . resources ,
To assure to me in the future the expenses of lodging , furniture , and serviceand a suitable remuneration for my labors .
- To assure , also sufficient salary to the native sub-mistress , who is indispensable to me for teaching the needlework and embroidery
peculiar To assur to the e to Arabs me . ten . francs a month for the food of each
dayscholar . To assure to me . for each child placed wholly in my charge a sum .
equal to its expenses , which cannot be less than 400 francs ( £ 24 ) a year It seems . to meM . le Comtethat in thus bounding my requests
I am keeping within , the most , . modest , and I would even say the taking most do , all disinterested the and good I have I , can limits effect no . wish , I I feel have to , m compromise faith ore than in the any future it other by of exaggerated person my under can
pretensions sense all oth of , er a personal . great I hav dut e considerations y besides to be shown done . has , _irp The wei to the time ghed present with has arrived me time more , that , M than the . le
Comtein which to bestow on my efforts the recompense which I desire , and to consolidate for ever the happy result which I have , obtained . shorten the
last I administrative hope that the jxreceding obstacles . exposition will _siifnce I to remain , & c .
M Adame Iatce, Of Algiers. 167
M ADAME _IATCE , OF ALGIERS . 167
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1861, page 167, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051861/page/23/
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