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A NIGHT IN WESTMINSTER. 267
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When Mention Is Made Of Westminster, The...
weather , autumn fogs and summer suns , have seen this pious mother and daughter ( the latter widely and most justly known for
her many and various , accomplishments , ) and their honored and highminded _friendwending their way through dreary lanes and noisome
passages , seeking , out the members of their society , and proceeding with an unfailing regularity to their post ev & ry Monday night .
Those only who were present on the first gathering , can have the--remotest idea of the change effected by this weekly meeting . The
the eight - -an d- poorest twenty class outcasts of who societ att y ; ended many on being the first widows nights with , wer large e of
families very , earning a precarious living in the streets by vending orangeswalnuts , stove ornaments , fish , and tin pans , others gaining
, a miserable These -women pittance , for b the y slop most "work part . , presented themselves without
hair any bonnets uncombed , often , and without in an caps indescribabl ; with their y filth rusty y condition , weather , hang -beaten ing
down their backs , or caught up over an old half-toothless comb ; their breasts were bareall ideas of decency having long ceased to
, existand their soiled and -well-worn gowns "were invariably in rags . Their , homes corresponded with their persons , their language
and ideas with both . Very few attended any house of God for received worship on at the the Ragged Sabbath School , and , any was instruction necessarily which counterbalanced their children and
disturbed There were by the not examp wanting le they instances beheld of at wom home en . there , who actually
were ignorant of the use of a needle and thread— -one of these poor helpless creatures , a great bony woman , a costermonger to the by party
professionwaswith much difficulty , persuaded join . At leng , th she , was induced to promise her presence if the " l _« -adies wo-ovld co-ome and fe-etch he-er fo-or _shee was soo _ner-ervous . " So and
the ladies went and fetched her for three successive Mondays , now her she comes determination willing ly to enoug ive h one alone of ; the indeed teachers , last " Monday a _bro-och she li expressed -ike Mrs .
Th There _ing-0-my are ' s , " names Mrs . T on g hing the -e- books my being now the to the scho number olmaster of ' s wife sixty . , the doubt that the
attendance average attendance will idl being increase forty-five now , but they there have is taken no possession of
kins their Rents new school which rap , ( form for y the erly last the , two " One -hundred Tun . " ye public ars , has house been , 3 one , Per of
the favorite , resorts , of thieves , ) which happy event took place on the 25 th of Octoberwhen the Lord Mayor presided .
We take at random , a few names from the book , and give an outline of their histories
: > f Mrs six . makes Burgess wooden , a wido skewers w with for two child butcher ren , a s boy , at of 6 _^ . ten d . a and thousand a girl .
On one , occasion was found completing an order for £ . ve _thousand for which , after carrying them to Paddington , she was to _receive 28
vox ,, ii s . . _^ d . tj 2
A Night In Westminster. 267
A NIGHT IN WESTMINSTER . 267
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1858, page 267, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121858/page/51/
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