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CULTIVATION OF FEMALE INDUSTRY IN IRELAN...
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4 Part Ii. Needuework V. Domestic Servic...
= sidered , and tlie corapetition in each separate portion of the article allowed money b for it , deserve the individual peculiar instances noticeas of demonstrating workers in 1 Cork cleverness making in
construction y and developing qualities , of a high order . The four little daughters of a " gingle-man" ( cabman ) who had taken
shelter in the poorhouse there with , his wife , and six children , came out one by one , and , hy means of this employment , freed the
rest of their family . The writer has been offered a complimentary 'drive by the reinstated father of these girls , and feels bound to
¦ _* state ' ¦ out-do that or relief ingratitude . " The is schools not the in common which this result power of this was system acquired of
were perfectly independent of the State provision for the training of the young .
It is remarkable , that while no stimulant seemed provocative of industry in the workhouseoutside of it the progress was
extraordinary . Materials and , teaching supplied to habituees in residence there , were waste : —lost labor . The national school edu _^
cation could not have developed this industry without the guidance : of the female intelligencethat by an inspectorshipminute and
particular , perceived the capabilities , of its poor countrywomen , , and directed the course of their _genius . Support is due to this action
_^ naturally set up . The industry which bursts up in several places should be looked
to and treated where it is . The interference should be strictly local . '" No vague legislation will answer the caseand it must be
: investigated , and made a distinct point of app , lication . The . resemblance between the Irish and their continental relatives
Is in some respects so strong , as to support the adoption of mear _? sures in their casesimilar to those that have been successful
, abroad . In the needlework industries many features in common with their foreicousins may be traced ; butalas for the
_disadvantage under gn which our poor struggle ! , No governmental _> : care fosters the development of their tastes , and therefore they
• remain undefined and ineffective while rudiments abound for the formation of trades , as profitable and beautiful as those from
which the French , Belgians , and women of other countries derive supp It ort will . be hard for Irish women to suppress the rising of
jealousy , when they view the lovely productions of their sex in the International Exhibitionand feel that for such occupation they
liave peculiar talents , and , no means whatever of cultivating them . \ By a recent arrangementthere is access to the Government
-Schools of Design for girls , from National Schools ; but some idea : be formed of the futility of this offerwhen it is stated that in
. . may . the princi no pal information seat of the lace licable manufacture to the introduction , , the instruction of the afforded artistic conveys app
with element / this into department that work which . There reache is no s the system case of inspection their pupil connected s . They
Cultivation Of Female Industry In Irelan...
CULTIVATION OF FEMALE INDUSTRY IN IRELAND . 37
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 37, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/37/
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