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THE QUEEN ADELAIDE NAVAL FUND. 253
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as tlie result of a bazaar lieicl in tlxe June of that year at the than Crystal £ 600 Palace stock . In to consequence the permanent of this capital the treasurer and at the added same no time less
paid through the committee £ 169 for the , relief of necessitous grant orphans of ; any but previous even thi year s sum , was , exceeding very inadequate though it to did the by distresses £ 43 any of .
the And app so licants , year . by year , the good work went on growing , and the
battle bravely fought , though £ 200 ( for that is the largest sum the committee have ever felt justified in giving away during any year )
made does not by other _apjDear institutions to be a large , yet sum those when who compared are acquainted with marine the with officers grant the s
circumstances in which the orphans of naval and tioned are too , may often be placed the means , know of well relieving that such - very a sum great , judiciousl distress y , and appor of
since gladdening After the carefull establi many y shment hearts examining . of the the Society various it cases is impossible reported as not relieved to be
most strongly impressed with the truth , of the assertion so continuallmade in this Journalviz . that the present education received
by y middle class girls is most , si , gnally inappropriate , and absolutely worthless for any of the practical purposes of life ; and the descri affords p-
tion another of evidence the applicants to the fact for the that relief mantua of -making this charit , with y onl its y sixteen hours a dayand governessingwith all its evils and ill payare the
, , , livelihood only means . In by this which same such list women we also can find by the any halt possibility , the sick earn , and a
the blindthe fatherless and the widow , a huge company too crippled , too , aged , or too diseased , to attempt even to follow the
example of their younger companions in sorrow , but who lie there , impotent the benevolent folk , helpless and . the and tender expectant -hearted , waiting may be for able such and bount willing y as
you , , to bestow . that We the are amount sorry of to donations see by the has annu latel al been balance falling -sheet off for ; this this seems year
scarcelcredible or creditable to a y maritime nation like thisa country y calling herself so proudly the mistress of the seas ; surely , a land that produce a Camperdowna StVincenta Howeand a
men Nelson by , oug whose can ht never strength to forget , and the throug claims h , whose of . the blood destitute m , , aint the ained children supremacy , . of of We this kin find gdom that has been for licants so m not any speciall generations y mentioned would be
many app needlewomen thankful for emp or otherwise loyment as and governesses to more or comp left off anions clothes , some would as many
to be ive point very assistance acceptable out some and such . The we cases are ladies ; to sure those of the that friends committee Mrs . who Sk , yring may are , generall of be the willing Admi y able to
ralty g , Somerset , House , ' to whose untiring zeal and exertions this
The Queen Adelaide Naval Fund. 253
THE QUEEN ADELAIDE NAVAL FUND . 253
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 253, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/37/
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