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LIVES EOH LEAVES. 167
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proceed to "brush it over the cambric , which is then doubled into inany into ieces folds , of and the passed required to pattern a machine . in which it is stamped ( cut ) /
, The p colorer and stamper escape with comparative impunity , owing to the fact of the powder being " laid" ( wet ) while the grinder is said
to suffer similarly to the women ; but his task , , unlike theirs , is being _continuallvaried . Most colors are rinsed after the stamperan
operation y which sets the powder , ( if powder there be , ) but green , is never rinsedso that the leaves come to hand immediately from
, the As press has . been intimatedthe material is not cut singlyhut is folded
till about the thickness , of a quarter of an inch . , These pieces adhere firmlwhen perfectly dry ; and on being rapidly
separated very , the deadl y y powder arises as perceptibly as smoke from a pipe . After other processes of manipulation , the leaves are
sometimes Another waxed later , but mode this is differs not the entirel rule y . from the foregoing .
Accordwax ing to , and this , while new wet method , sprinkled , the white with the cambric powder leave which s are is di contained pped in
in a fluff sieve , or , what has been thought more convenient , a common pepper box finely and closely perforated . is the most
It is difficult to say which of the two methods deleterious , some affirming the one and some maintaining the other it is sufficient to know that both produce the same fatal result .
It is remarkable that flower-makers , whose task is undertaken _^ affcer longer or shorter intervalsand is seldom prolonged over a
of period emerald of more than than seven the leaf or - ei hands g , ht days . One , have or a two far facts greater horror illusmay
trate this . green During the whole of the last spring and through the with summer the , a preparation large numb houses er of hands were in engaged the emp almost loy of firms exclusivel connected y on
green stated department , leaves would , on ; occupy while an order , ab in out another for a week , green establishment , the being girls 1 announced appeared in the , panic _fLower which -stricken - , making it was ,
_sthat and execution gazed some of on of a their each previous other companions order in the ; greatest several had suffered had agitation been very . seized much The with truth from what was the ,
; was who greatest pronounced had peril returned . A di to pale phtheria her child , and loyment who their had but lives been a week had similarl been previousl y p affected laced y in broke , and the
at length the presumptuous emp silence by remarking simply and , in a tremulous voice— " ButMa ' amit ives us this new complaint . "
This speech appeared hi , ghly to amuse , g the principal , but on finding an unusual amount of hesitationit was formally announced to be
_" sider green When or nothing left , to " and themselves a few minutes , they agreed were that allowed they them " could to con but - '
suffer . " that it " was better to risk being out of work than risk , work should
having the diphtheria , and finally , that those who got
Lives Eoh Leaves. 167
LIVES _EOH LEAVES . 167
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1862, page 167, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051862/page/23/
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