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PROMOTING THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN. 75
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Iisr Stating The Progress .Of The Societ...
The adult class at Miss Boueherett _' s school averages twenty-three keep pupils ing , who and are clerk receiving -like handwriting " a good education , with such in other arithmetic knowled , book ge as
-,, may fit them for a business life . When examined and certificated , their names are placed on a register kept at the school , which may
be consulted by employers . Besides those who are trained from the beginningwomen sometimes come to learn to keep their husbands '
, accounts , or for general improvement in the essentials of a plain English education .
The superintendent of the law-copying office reports favorably of the amount of business carried on during the past nine months ,
and of the encouragement now held out to her , both by the _j _^ rofession and the trade . Of the established success of the Victoria Press ,
to which the first compositors were apprenticed by the Society , the Committee do not need to speak .
After the meeting of the National Association at Glasgow last year , a committee for promoting the employment of -women was
formed at Edinburgh , which is in correspondence with the London Society . Branch committees were also established at
Newcastle-on-Tyne in the October of last year , and at Leicester and _ISTottingham , respectivelyin May last . The Committee are also in
correspond-, ence with a Society established at Aberdeen . The Committee would recommend to the notice of those who have
the management of charitable or other institutions , the claims of some among the better educated class of governesses , whothough
, still capable of good work , are obliged after some years to withdraw from teaching . These have occasionally well filled such posts as
those occupied by assistant secretaries to literary or scientific societies , and secretaries to private persons , and ( with some
previous training ) superintendents of charitable organizations of various kindsand the Committee cannot but think there is room
, for many more in similar capacities . In conclusion , the Committee , while they acknowledge the ground
gained , feel how much lies before them . Each day's experience , gathered both from the personal applications made at the office ,
and those which come from all parts of the country , reveals that the need which exists for well-directed effort in this cause , is even beyond
what they at first conceived . At their best , they feel it impossible to keep _jDaee with the necessities which daily open before them ; and
they would earnestly remind the public , that each individual influence is of valueand that it can be ill spared while the suffering
and privation which , the society aims to relieve are at their present height . For the suffering which is caused by wanfc of suitable
employment is privation from a life of usefulness and self-respect , as well as from the means of living ; and the assistance wanted is
not in cordiall the charit y welcoming y which is those mere who almsg ask iving ( 6 , leave but the to ch toil arity "' to of a justice better ,
vantage ground in the struggle of life .
Promoting The Employment Of Women. 75
PROMOTING THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN . 75
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 75, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/3/
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