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st. Joseph's industrial institute. 131
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diall In y future prays Grod letters to bless I hop , together e to be able with to them send . — you London many , interesting April 18 th , accounts 1857 . "
of the useful forms , in which' woman ' s work develops itself in Dublin and throughout the country .
I am , Madam , Yery truly yours , EBLANA .
we [ Some subjoin time an extract having from elapsed a private since letter the preparation received a of few the day above s since paper from , hIndustrial
a lady in Dublin , refering to the present state of St . Josep ' s Institute . —Ed . E . W . J . ] much desired
"A small housein the situation I have described , with the so few square removed yards The , of p extern layground industrial attached class , having continues become as usual vacant , except the school that
tuted p was lain work in most , of . cases which for we the are crotchet now certain . The of house a fair admits supply of , has accommodation , heeu substisix childrenfrom thirteen
for a small intern classand we have now in it , support to as sixteen we say by here years the , the of needlework poorhouse age , , all orp . they hans These do , taken children They directl are will y also partl from taug y the pay ht workhouse for all their kinds own , or of
. cooking common , etc household ., so that work in the —scouring course of , time washing , when , cleaning situation grates s for , them very p offer lain ,
we * can The of draft taug children ht them according in off the , and poorhouses make to the way , national at for least others in system some . instances well instructed , are well bj taken the
most care chaplains cases , , and no useful carefull work y watched by which in every they way could . earn But , they their are bread taug outside ht , in .
Even needlework , except so far as is necessary to enable them rudely to put ever together sixteen of years the their system of own age , coarse as , they here garments are administered sent into is unknown the is , adult that . The wards when grievous , where the girls , wrong is as there come how to is
no classification whateverthe effects of their previous training speedily make lost . a The trade very of worst tempting character , out the s of poor the children city resort , so to ill could the prepared be poorhouse to resist , and
evil influences . No organised system of corruption more perfect than to perdition this . The and progression the fearful is alternation from the childrens of the ' streets class to and the the adult hosp wards ital . — I
h out ave of heard a hundred men , well the inmates informed of on the the women subj ' ect s wards say , are that abandoned in ninety- characters nine cases , in the irls
and I know that the most unruly , hopeless cases a city gaol are g from To the show workhouse that something . should and shall be done to stop such growth of
" our evil , very is the small object way of , others the work may we take hav examp e so much le and at heart do better . If . we At succeed all events in
the " prin You cip now le shall understand be established why . your Journal is interesting to us . Such writings as yours in the last number—Miss Twining ' sand Mrs .
Jameson'smust " Pardon bear good me for fruit writing at last so . much at length , and believe me , dear Madam , " Yours most sincerely ,
« S . A . "
St. Joseph's Industrial Institute. 131
st . Joseph ' s industrial institute . 131
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1858, page 131, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101858/page/59/
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