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302 MADAME LTJCE, OP ALGIERS.
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Madame Luce , / whose vigorous intellect embraces . " every need of her pupils' liveshad established a workshopwhere the elder girls
, , executed work for the ladies of Algiers , and earned in this way a considerable sum of money , learning at the , same time that lesson
most ; difficult for a Moresque—to appreciate the value of labor . They had always a month _' s stock of work waitingfor them in
advance . But the authorities , to the deep regret of Madame Xuee , put an end to the ouvroir y either for the sake of economising the
salary for the sewing-mistress who superintended it , ( which did not amount to more than £ 35 _sl year , ) or else for the sake of favoring some
similar ouvroir under religious direction . Madame . Luce considers it one of the most useful parts of her whole scheme . The
gentlemen inspectors who at that time reported on the school thought far more of a -well-turned French phrase than of a neatly sewn
irock . But though required and perfectly willing to pay great attention to the intellectual education of her pupils , she felt more
anxious about their industrial training , thinking it of the Utmost importance that Moorish womenso helpless by law and custom
, , should possess some means of gaining a respectable livelihood , to say nothing of their eminent need of neatness and order at home ,
and the power of making and mending their own and their husbands' clothes .
But a change of inspectors was made , and in 185 8 we find ladies very wisely appointedwho sent in the following report .
, _HapjDily it was in some measure effectual , and the ouvroirs of the fine and beautiful embroidery of the East have been again . open
for two years . COPY OT A EEPOET ADDRESSED TO M . "LE PREFET , THE 7 th : DECEMBER , 1858 , /¦
-. BY THE COMITE DES DAMES INSPECTRICES DES _ECCXLES _ARABES-PRANCAISES DE _JiETTNE PIIiX . ES . To M . le Prefet of the Department of Algiers .
Monsieur le Prefet . Arabes fulfils The one Comite of the des duties Dames for Inspectrices which it was des created JEcoles in de transmitting Jeunes . Filles to
you a report upon the condition of these schools , and in drawing your beneregards volent attention the moralisation towards institutions and the develojmaent which a , re of of the the hi famil ghest y among interest the as
Mussulman Perhaps it population will not , be and uninteresting which also is to in recall much to need your of ameliorati memory in on . few e words ntirel _tlie due orig to a woman the — various to Madame phases Luce of this who Institution in 1845 . turning Its creation to ac is
y , , , knowled count , w ge ith very of Arabic limited and resources a great , and practical at her facility own risk in and the peril art , of a tlaoroug teaching h .
neg yieldin lected g also , —opened to a desire an industrial of being school usefu for l youn to a g class Mu , ssulman until then girl , , tod and much kept
decree it charge up at of her In G- own overnment ite expense of this . In encouragement until 1850 184 its 7 existence , when it this was was school onl assured at was the b taken y cost a Presidential of under unusual the
. . sp , y succe efforts ss , and whi thanks ch was to in a rare ll respects perseverance complete , th . at Madame Towards Luce this epoch attained , ( 1850 success , ) the
house contained about 200 young girls : the elementary instruction was excel-
302 Madame Ltjce, Op Algiers.
302 MADAME LTJCE , OP ALGIERS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 302, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/14/
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