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IN THE SOUTH OF IRELAND. 333
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. ^P Withik The Last Ten Years A Vast Ch...
forth , the hardy blade , which in time yields fourfold fruit . "When at length , a lull took place in the pestilence , which raged for
manynit cities they months y : were there and so to hotl in were remed remote y , peop not y the wanting le country utter began ladies villages destitution to look to , around as form of well the themselves them as poor in and in towns their into see com vici now and - -
, mittees and associations , for the benefit of the female poor ; many of whom were widows and orphans , deprived of house and home
by the same stroke that took from them the husband and father , who had toiled for their daily bread .
The first means of enabling them to earn their livelihood by children work , was , were to teach ignorant them on , for this the point greater , save part of of knitting both women stockings and ,
the ing and Irish the doing clothes in a general little of their plain tea famili ching work es was , . which But no , was difficult with mostl the task y natural confined and quickness ere to long repair in of
-, , being many a considered country village the sprung most remunerative up a crochet school that at , — the that time style presented of work
itself . Girls of all ages quickly flocked in to these schools , glad to earn even
handling a few pence the , and crochet it was needle a pleasant so expertl sig y ht , while to see their undertook their poor nimble the wan fingers sale faces of
lit their up work with p examined leasure , as it the and ladies praised , who their kindl industry y . At first they were almost , exclusively confined to making edgings ; collars and These
sleeve did not s , , in of crochet course , pay not having them well come be , three obtained into pence fashion for per them at yard the , time and being . then about
insurmountable the highest price obstacle which arose could which wasthat there was : no known an available market for their work , for the families , in the vicinities of
these crochet schools , had purchased , as much , and more , from them than they required ; and having exhausted their English
industry orders friends for , who seemed edgings had paralized , could given do , them and no more a they vast ; again so amount that relapsed for of a short hel into p time and idleness large their ,
which to say truth was not voluntary . Many a time , have we heard the regretful words— " I ' m idle for want of work , " and felt how
hard But it this seemed state , to of be things unable did to not give continue them some long . , for , hearing that in the
the sewed muslin embroidery was extending , and prospering entered tive north emp of into loyment Ireland correspondence s , and some giving ladies with to ( princi so some many pall of y thousands the the leading wives there manufacturers of clergymen remunera ) -
in Belfastas to the means of the females of the south sharing the benefits which , their northern sisters enjoyed from embroidery work ;
to them which that enquiries schools every encouragement in they their received neihbourhoods a should kind and be . speed given No y tim them response e was to form , therefore assuring embroidery g
In The South Of Ireland. 333
IN THE SOUTH OF IRELAND . 333
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1858, page 333, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071858/page/45/
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