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378 THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN.
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The Committee Have To Record Increased •...
and eig The hteen book lad . -keep Nine who ing have " , was and gained five elected have certificates to obtained the of Emi situations competency gration . agency in arithmetic being
unable to accep y t the post , the work has been ably and gratuitously carried on bMiss Xtye . Since last June 5 0 candidates have
been sent out y to different colonies , and arrangements , are being made for 136 to follow . Particulars may be known on application
to An Miss Exhibition Rye , 12 , Portugal of novel Street artistic , Lincoln work ' s was Inn held . by the Society
at Bayswater , on March 10 th , and the Committee hope to establish a permanent As a result depot of the of Societ a similar ' s previous kind . workit may be mentioned ;
that an independent and hitherto y successful , effort has been made in law-ing by the establishment of two offices in the City—at
24 Colem copy an Streetand 141 Fenchurch Street . After , the meeting , of the , Social Science Association last year ,
a branch society was formed , at Dublin , which has , extended its _^ with operations the branch rapidly committees and successfull at Dublin y . Communication NewcastleLeicester is kept , and
up-, , towns occasional Notting at ham which hel , p and and the the in Society formation Edinburg has are h established and interchanged Aberdeen agencies ; societies and considerable in , several _^ and
, interest is felt in the better industrial training of women . In the working of the Society the Committee have increasing _,
who training experience l and for of the disci work defective p . line While is education consp the icuous app of licants women in the show . maj The great ority want ignorance of of those early y
both app of the necessity of such training and of the importance of labourers sivel accuracy y for and women in thoroug fitted department hness for generall posts of of handicraft y , responsib the demand and ility art , is and . almost The for skilled exclu Com-
mittee add every that the need of some trustworthy test of women's ? abilities may , is very , frequently pressed upon their notice .
The Committee consider that the general moral influence of the how Societ their much present y is extending it friends lies in , , but their and they from look many to for diminish who farther are the assistance probably difficulties both not which aware from power
women encounter in trying to obtain suitable work . The answer hairdressers most frequentl ) who y g mi iven hands ght by fitl of tradesmen y emp ladies loy themselves women ( such as assistants linendrapers If ladies _^ is that would and it
sho rests w chiefl that y they in the are really interested in the matter . , tradesmen would interest themselves also . needed
< The Committee are convinced that a fuller recognition is 15 , * Simpson Secretaries Street : Miss , _! N Bl ewcastle yth , 30 -on Hanover -Tyne ; Street Mrs . , Edward Edinburg _Paget h ; Miss , Friar Armstrong ' s Lane , ,
Hiibislaw Leicester ; Terrace Miss , Hine Aberdeen , Regent ; Miss Street Corl , ett Notting , 101 , SuramerMll _; Mrs . , Dublin Spottiswood . ,
378 The Employment Of Women.
378 THE _EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1862, page 378, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081862/page/18/
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