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    safes of _Economical " advantage ; While families _^ libwever , eagerly seek the slielter _^ _fo _^ because

    they unfavorable _habits ; are of * conducting the season surrounding * in business ' a ' - 'Way 1 trade which in "; a -which m _rii anner 3 ' ¦ inlpbssi instantl at : bl v y © ariance retrenches _:--ta _' _'fi _;' _- i gTeiat with in , 'esta _tlie an - ;

    _feHslini _^ t _i _\ d m ¦ iitl "¦ ' 7 _' vTh ffi ( B : _^ ' > _- _iFrekeK _-Y _^^ _Vs' _^ 1 _miB colpny _^ ideia . _-- of : " . is Al being giers in for this the year first time of 1861 . ;¦ A : s carried I was out an

    eye-witness -of its coininencenient , in the month of January last , it may charitable be of _^— use the for germ trie of -to a rel vast ate system in what of w female ay— - _^ ' half industry -economical may spring ,

    half-Tip . About three miles from the town of Algiers is a ravine of the most beautiful and rbman _& from some local

    _MHs tradition _^ its side fLa s _Fernme clotte Sauvage . It winds ilex about , the olive ambiig _^ and the with steep an

    underwood of infinite variety and loveliness . Wild flowers grow there in _^ rielr profusionand under the bright blue sky of that almost

    tropical climate' it , seems as If anything so artificial and unnatural as bur " _t systems bf industry could hardly exist for shame ; yet : in

    that _/; yer _^; valley young feniale children are at this very moment , while I speak and you listen ; winding silk for twelve clear hours '

    ¦ a _' _'day ;! _^ _- ' _- _:- _^ _:- _- _— _,: y : ¦ . ¦ - - ¦ ' . ;¦ ¦ ; , _- . ¦ ¦ : _y : : ? :- ' _- _¦'¦'" '/ ' ¦ : ' ¦ ¦" ¦ _- ' ¦ \ _- ' _:- ? _--:- ' _^ . ¦; , ¦¦ _- ¦ _^ _- . ; " ¦ ¦ : ¦ ¦ the _: Tne town condition is a large _^ of the orphanage case are _^ as containing follows y :-- about -Considerabl 400 children y nearer ,

    under the care of the sisters of St . Vincent de Paul . Many of theni population are half-castes - ' and , : bthers they are the _exactl poorest y ¦ the dregs same as material it were of as the in Eng French land

    or Ireland would be drifted into workhouses . Of course , in a place like Al matter giers , to of find limited _^ profitable colonial occupation population for and 400 resources han , irls it is and no

    easy a orpg , therefore _^ vhen M . Il _^ - _~^~ -, ( the very same gentleman who had organized M : B _^——' s factory near Lyons ) set up a silk-winding

    , mill in La _jFemriie _Scmvage ; the Algerine Government , _wHich pays a consiclerable sum towards the support of the orphanage , were glad

    to apprentice _^ thirty girls to M . H , to be bound from the age of thirteen to that of twenty-orie and to workacording to the usual

    conditions of French industry , twelve hours a , day . " The work consisted of winding the raw silk from the cocoon _^ by hand , aided by a slight

    inachinery , anil " then in _ianbther pa _^^ factory spinning it by Market nieahs of of the the ordmary Lyons weavers apparatus _^ Three into skeins Sisters of of silk Charity ready for accom the

    panied the children , and were to superintend them at all times _^| ih the > dormitory ; the dining-room , and on Sundays , their only day' of

    recreation : When the thirty apprentices were duly trained , ] VL _lEt— - _^ - _^ was ; prepared to take seventy _-niorej who were also to be

    accompanied ; by their devoted superintendents ; so that if not at this -moment ; at all events before long , there will be : 100 girls steadily

    _^ fcrainiiig in . that _seceded valley , _? t thousand miles from here , the

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1861, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091861/page/5/