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LOWELL AND ITS OPERATIVES. 393
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tu emp ausp res loyed ices , 60 cent of as lecturers the s is Association charged . For for , attendance males and the , and best at 40 a cents talent course for in of females the twelve country .
lec-Other courses are given ea _, eh season at other halls in the city , and the audiences are mostly operatives . It is understood that the lecturer will not detain his hearers after nine o'clock , and if he at bell the
how part is a little not faithful of closing annoy them the ing leave his operatives to remarks him the to few talk b are y who the to to - tim corporation emp can e t th y remain seats ' ru . longer les rings This . , , is but sometimes it greater shows
12 000 1844 volumes , a city . library The cost was of taking opened books , which is 50 now cents contains per annum nearly ,
and , the list shows that one-third of the subscribers are operatives . bath In school addition of to each these reli , a ious parish society library , and is the connected use of with the the books Sab is - g
free establishments In to 1 . any , member there 60 were public of the in societ schools the city y , or , emp besides school loying . private 104 teachers and parochial , 90 of
whom were females , . The city supports three Free Evening the there Schools Free is for also Chapel persons an evening of of the all school " ages attendance Minister who for adult are at at Large emp s these over loye / 16 7 schools d supported in years the is of day from age by ; and , the 60 at
t Unitarians o 65 but . a much The averag larger e number is on the books . Services are ren are dere productive , d gratuitousl of much y by the benefit public to school many teachers adults and to whom others , book and
to knowle _ISTo the city d number ge in woul New d of be Eng its un land tax attainable - pays . a than larger Lowell school , tax which , in proportion within 26
year It not s has onl paid affords over 1 , 000 facilit , 000 payers dollars for , educ for ation the , but support children of schools , not at . every y
workare y under obligation to improve them . It would be rare to find , ative born operative who does not readand possess some
a n , As acquaintance to the with and at least periodicals arithmetic taken , gramm by the ar operatives , and _geograjDh , " their y . papers
name is legion . " _LOWELIi OFFERING .
The fame of this magazine , which was written , edited and thing published can by be factory said of girls it , which has reached may not Eng alread land , y and be little familiar if any to
-Eng Miss lish readers Harriet . Farley , the editress , wrote of its origin as from
follows distant to opinions : — city " . of The He them first had . pub He there lisher cam hear e , of saw d the of , and factory ' Offering _questioned girls ' , came and for him listened self a .
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Lowell And Its Operatives. 393
LOWELL AND ITS OPERATIVES . 393
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1863, page 393, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081863/page/33/
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