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A SEASON WITH THE DRESSMAKERS. 409
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* There Know Not Is What An Old We Adage...
improp returnin in at er any g or was hour inimoral eleven she advantage p thoug . m ., she ht could was proper taken take . I of the do this key not self , and say -appropriated let that herself any
privilege , but would merely hint how many evils might occur from such a faulty method of conducting an establishment .
There are many who conduct houses of business in London , besides the one I have already alluded towho cannot— -with all
, tion their for packing those so in many their in emp one loy bedroom . I admit —find then sufficient , there accommoda is no alter - -
person native , but of mature to provide years such should in another be appointed house ; , but also then to sleep a prop there er ,
and see that all conduct themselves with steadiness and propriety What . can be a more disgraceful scenethan to witnessat twelve
o ' clock at night , or perhaps even later , a , number of young , people , . who from six in the morning have been till thenshut up in the
close street atmosp and have here perhaps of a workroom a hundred , and yards are or now more all to , turned walk into to their the
bedrooms , without any protection or supervision ? In the , course of my papers I purpose showing the 'different
ranks of those who become associates of the needle , which will , I hope are , almost tend to exclusivel remove an impression an uneducated by far and too general illiterate , " that class they of
peop necessary le . " to I shall fill before also y detail arriving the at subordinate the position situations of a ci it first is usuall hand , y "
and the responsibility which attaches itself to such an engagement . The existing system of late hours and working all nightI shall
, endeavour to illustrate by cases which have come under my own observation and experience , and to this portion of my work I invite
barous special practice attention can , as never the be horrors too much attendant exposed upon , or those such who a bar are
the authors of them too severely punished . I hope , too , to be able princi to show pals , to of the dressmaking satisfaction houses of all , , that and the not fault with lies those only who with g the ive .
them their patronage . Hurried meals , and unwholesome , indigestible foodI shall notice in their proper course , as also illventilated , and but half-furnished bedrooms . Many other little
incidents uninteresting , too , to I purpose many who touching will think upon , it which worth have may their occasion not while prove to ta < *
le peruse allude ading these to journals my pages public in , and the correspondence shall year probabl 1853 and y with frequentl occasionall the y Times y , during and other the
, , year 1854 . But this must be deferred to another chapter . Jane Le Pilastriek [ First _Hadstd ] .
( To be " continued . )'
VOL . XI . G Q
A Season With The Dressmakers. 409
A SEASON WITH THE DRESSMAKERS . 409
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1863, page 409, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081863/page/49/
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