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212 opest council.
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To the Editors of the English "Woman*s J...
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To The Editors Of The English Woman's Jo...
to cure know her a not thorou onl gh knowled laces in London of the art where of drawin such instruction g and painting is to . be I wish had
but how , to obtain y admission p to themand also the expense incurred in , ttending them ,
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October 2 ? id , 1861 .
212 Opest Council.
212 _opest _council .
To The Editors Of The English "Woman*S J...
To the Editors of the English "Woman * s Journal . evils I am L of _« AI drink sometimes > IES , particularl surprised amongst when I our think how little neihbors we do to The counteract temptation the
that to drink the ma is jority the , greatest of us are y bane hardl of their aware existence of poorer the frig ; htful but g extent then . I of must the tempta suppose - comforts tion—how and the g leasures in . palace they haunts do their not find homes elsewhere , and their dail In this paths parish , and alone offers
there dealers is in one necessaries gin p -shop to of life every are two as hundred one to souls one , whilst . thousand butchers that , bakers isabout , and , thirty-eight to five . There is , only one pump every , and as yet we have no ; fountain , ; in lis and whilst the
many tanks to of receive the courts it are the frequentl water supp y placed y in inadequate the most unpleasant partial proximit , y to of closets wholesome temptation and for drain are consump always pipes tion , thus at . the rendering Then corners again of the , the the water streets sites anything chosen and lanes for but leadin these tempting palaces to the or
g p but oor is man the ' s hom deman e , they d for are drink always reall close y such to cab as -stands to re — quire of course absolutel they y are this
powerful when enormous the tem enou sup ptation p g ly h ? to I resist cannot is so strong it believ without e and that p near h it ysical naturall , poor as weak y well is ; human as but moral I do nature know assistance is that not . htened educated
Let us keep in our minds this vast country of ours , this enlig na charities tion , sp endi look ng seventy at one -five milli millions on in th annuall at scale y and in drink then , then let us let us and turn talk to the to go
reflects the not world crying no of them credit our down benevolence u , I . us thank if , we our God look philanthro that at it in p , have ic a institution pounds them , _biit shillin s , and I g do so say and on , . that pence I am it
lihtand when we pon icture to ourselves the thousands , of wretched , wives sic fatal g kly temptation starving naked . Then p children indeed , and I brutal think we husbands have reason made so to b combine y yielding and to this see
whether small , to lend there a i s an p y ing plan hand we to could preserve carr our y out poor likel from y in bein any g way so sorel , however y tried . we We were are to talk co in _-ojDerat g a great e and deal consider just now w about hether co- b operation oenin . a Well comfortab , suppose le
men news -room smo , k well e , ( for smoking pplied with does hot not lead , , coffee of itself , and , to soup y drin p , king and g , ) permitting close at hand the to the cab-stands and really well provided , we should not supply the articles
by w whi arm mean ch , these a s of o men g f inger gossi are p beer , and , syrups a forced look , at to the see ices newspapers k , many the , I gin am : - then shop convinced , — viz i . , , somethin 1 would summer b g e ,
prevented from entering the public-houses . Could not some philanthropic ladies raduall or gent to obtain lemen t some ake it moral by turns influence to sup over erintend them , t . o tal I mi k to ht th also e " , and est gsugg
g what has y , I believe , been already done in Brighton and elsewhere , the placing of tea and coffee stalls in the streets , as near as possible t the cab-stands , which
without are usuall the y in permission the most of frequented the police . thoroug I have hfares ventured ; bat to thi suggest s cannot this pJan done to your consideration , and should be thankful could I see it anent efficiently worked ,
winters as I am quite ago cabmen convinced and that casual ifc would _passers do - great by availed and perm themselves good largel . y Some of a
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1861, page 212, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111861/page/68/
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