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MADAME LUCE, OF ALGIERS. 303
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lent-the art of needlework had arrived at remarkable perfection among them . Up dantl quentl , to y , 1850 and considerable , the Madame young fruits g Luce irls of took paid their back two labor sewing each , The day -mistresses native to their embroidery , own work families came in in silk the abun fre and - -
gold was In . , again so 1850 y famous restored , it was in , the thoug and East obtained ht and necessary of a real which to and . the divide merited tradition contain the success school was about . here . 250 There almost without were lost ,
more increase than of 150 pupils . , A and sub the -mistress house could of Madame LuceMademoiselle Obevallierbecame expense in her turn the mistress of a school , which , went on very
well it with , and the altho , ori ug inal h , M school . le Prefet in the , we Hue find de it desirable _Toiilon , we to ask wish you to to recommend re-unite
Mademoiselle Chevallier g to the interest and care of the Administration . charge This . was Permission not the onl to y take check orders received for work by the was school class forbidden under and the her Mad other , ame and that Luce of the at ' s
the moment when two medals , one of the first of incontestable second , bestowed merit by of the the _^ Exposition workWe TJniverselle call especial 1855 attention , bore to witness this fact to the o ±
. , which _This the prohibition importance inflicted might . otherwise much damage escap on e yotu the schools ' notice . . The intellectual
metic objects are of the for Institution the Moorish , strictl femal y e speaking population the so reading many , gates writing into and a . totall arith y -
mode new range , of life of their ideas prejudices , and their , and application their domestic of those customs arts is . forei These gn to custom their s
forbid them , with almost absolute force , to pass their own thresholds and mix work themselves a just of respect their , up for fingers with their European that reli they gious must life belief . seek It forbids is to in gain us their to an to do own honest anything houses and livelihood , which and by them . may the If
be offensive to itit is nevertheless incumbent on us try improve morall attained inions y , . and differ In it princi is and , onl the p y le by means every accustoming bod of y carry agrees ing them the oh to princi this labor head p , le that into , but this execution in end practice can are be
wanting are other op enj they oined to the to , teach mistresses forbidden the arts to of allow these of needlework schools . to Thu whatever the s , youn on the g who g one irls may , and han be d on in , they the the
house almost to invincible work are up obstacle on orders the received funds any allotted from person the for outside instruction ; and ag in ai sewing n , another , for
material the available purchase and funds of also at lin of en all , offices ; thread ( 1000 , books , & francs c , , are pens so onl , narrow y paper is allotted ;) that and they finall for hardl all y , at the y amount the costs age to of of
thirteen , the young girls are , obliged to quit the school to enter the workshop which has , recently been erected . out of two other rule
The year 1858 has witnessed the carrying s , equally annoying to the schools in question . ducted 1 st . The the suppression irls to of and the female from their officials own who homes morni . ng These and official evening s wer con e - young g
instituted in conformity with Article 19 of the rules given to the schools by it the They was Prefectures were inevit old ab and le in th 1854 poor at , they , and and should th this ey small received otherwise payment a payment receive stood of ; in but five lieu fr they of ancs alms have a , month which been .
ing suppressed on their the ideas again . and Their resuming customs utility their is of too functions native evident families . in We a , for town are us not like not ignoran to Al insist giers t , of very and the consider earnestl criticism y - it has been affirmedwithout
to any which other these proofs schools having have been been adduced subjected , that the : they were irls far from who ultimatel had , there y
received coiKhicing instruction to morality had , and afterw that ards many sialized of themselves young g by want of reguin conductThis reproach is trul gn unfounded . If a few out of the
w larity hole numberafter . having again entered y their own family life , have yielded ,
Madame Luce, Of Algiers. 303
MADAME LUCE , OF ALGIERS . 303
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 303, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/15/
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