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A SEASON WITH THE DRESSMAKERS. 19
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Chapter Ii. Than I Know When Not A A Mor...
_siex the , bu th t much March to the the purpose same . year It , appeare and runs d thus in the : — Times on (
"To the Editor of the Times . " Sir , the letter of a ' first hand , ' since I am sorry to say , in I have seen house fully
verified in Bond in Street . many . the points upper . ' Some part time of which was I was occupied shopman by one a hosiery of these so- , _-called first-class , houses . Now , my sister-in-law , an orphan , was apprenticed ,
and per day £ 30 , for was three paid years ; and : wh th at at for is , ? taking To have the the average privilege , which to work is quite 17 under hours the of the mark season , from and 7 till ten 1 * minutes 2 in the were whole allowed term , except for all _Sundaj meals _^ s excepting , both in and dinner out
. and for that , fifteen . I have many mornings seen her return , from a short , many walk in others the , from Park , the when sam I e have house just ; who commenced have preferred business the , quiet accompanied walk in the by
• open air on a summer ' s morning , to the hasty repose which would only be broken in one short hour . -give " Oh more ! frequenters time and of reasonable drawing-rooms opportunit , stat y e balls to comp , and lete fashionable your orders assemblies , for this ,
. is misery the . only excuse ever offered , by I their am , sir emp , loyers , to palliate so much Yours respectfully ,
NEWINGTON . " Here is one then , who can testify to the truth of rny t state t - t
men time ts , himself in the a person shopman of his under own the sister same -in-law roof , being in which a she ha was a , dressmaker : having paid £ 30 to sacrifice her health and
lay t could he founda nearl tion fill a perhaps volume incurable were I to diseas publish e . all the
corresy pondence of the lett I had of addressed a most harrowin to me upon descri this tion one . subject—many
Until quite a late period , it was g a fact grea p tly to be deplored , however that in many unpal " at houses ableprovided of business on " a Sunday there was for the dinner employes at all ,
that they were literall , y obliged to get a dinner where they could , ; or go without altogether . Be it remembered that many of- _,
them London come and as strangers erhas no from acuain the t country ances b — eyond have no h friends as they in
• may casuall , y p form . p Where q then are they to go for their Sunday ' s dinner ? This was never lotbut it is the lot of
my , many On the hundreds Sabbath less day fortunate we are than enjoined myself to . meet together in the
house of God le in for these prayer establishments . Alas ! it is who but comparativel do soand y wh few ?
y wearied oung peo and p exhausted with the week ' s labourthey ; are but too y g which lad on for the the _Sunday past six morning days has to been avail denied themselves th , em : of they that rejoice rest ,
that -The the afternoons " seventh and day evenings " at least are is a in day many of rest cases . passed with
friends ; but what of those ,, who having left their country
A Season With The Dressmakers. 19
A SEASON WITH THE DRESSMAKERS . 19
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1863, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091863/page/19/
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