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open council. 285
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friends Ladies Will who , you may grant ...
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[Ladies, 25th May, 186S. « -fjiOR LADIES...
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Xiabies Many , Thanks For Your Kindness ...
-which I wrote at the request of the editor of the Ragged School Union club Magazine I am is to full , be y and permanentl convinced appeared from y in successful the an May experience , number it must of . be two managed years and entirel a half y by , that the men if a will advise them
themselves—of course with one friend as the head , who , public should they when should - required houses also be also , , and encour and have which act aged the as they treasurer to form ortunit can and to all take the of do improving care v manage arious of their benefit admirabl themselves moneys societies y th . b emselves The y held educa men at - :
both tional -very classes fairl . y , Many and can men now who opp read could a newspaper y neither read or book nor for write themselves , can now . do I have found that a drunkard is seldom irreclaimable if he can read .
With best wishes , I am , Ladies , faithfully Adeline yours , Coopeb . If you can visit the club at anytime we shall be pleased—there are
numerous visitors .
Open Council. 285
open council . 285
Friends Ladies Will Who , You May Grant ...
friends Ladies Will who , you may grant be me interested the use , of and your willing Journal to assist in order , in one to reach branch unknown of our
operations We are ? anxious to form a class for teaching Telegraphy , in hopes of made getting special some c young ontributions women for emp this loyed in that as our way general . Some fund friends is not have able
to bear the expense : we find , however purpose , that , the cost of instruments , and all that is needed to make the class efficient , exceeds the means at our disposal . I therefore beg to state our circumstances to those interested in our work ;
hoping that some may be I willing remain to , Ladies supply , yours our want respectfull , y , Phoebe _^ _Blyth .
Secretary for the JEdiriburgli Society for Promoting the _Employment of Women .
[Ladies, 25th May, 186s. « -Fjior Ladies...
[ Ladies , 25 th May , 186 S . « -fjiOR LADIES and YOUNG LADIES . —H . J . andD . Nic oil's new and
JACKETS Jj fashionable are novel DEMI and - graceful FITTING , having PALETOTS the prettiest and petit PROMENADE collars and be broad worn turn in -back one of lapels them , with thus the forming button a -holes near resemblance so arranged that to the a flower lapels may and
, collars of gentlemen ' s coats . " advertisement Looking over I was the Dai greatl ly Telegrap shocked h the and other pained day to , I think found th the at in above the
present age of ; refinement the y resemblance of a lapel and collar to those worn by gentlemen should be considered a recommendation somewhere to is ladies not and it
should young ladies be ; and ! It I cannot appears hel to p hop me ing that th something at you think , witl me , that it as is a bad sign of the times .. How far this new whim may be carried _^ oil who knows ?
Perhaps warranted we to sh produce all live to a see fine a silk " Rowland y beard " and advertising moustache a new on the , smoothest or cream , will and fairest try and skin make in us an laug incredibl h at Mr y little NicolPs time . coat At s any as he rat has e , I done hope at Mr crinoline . Punch
and other abominations and absurdities . of the , day ; and if he can cure ladies ladies he and will young confer ladies a great of benefit trying upon to look society like , gentlemen and greatly instead gratify , of like
, Ladies , yours obedientl An Ojld y , Wife .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page 285, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/69/
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