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Jl SEASON WITH THE DRESSMAKEKS. 273
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Into On My Other Retirement Housesi From...
- in of sacrifice the earnest heads of . lives of Much fashionable to cup has idity to and West be callous done -end houses by indifference them is in if future the on the annual to part be
prevented . I would suggest that the Dressmakers' Institution commences should hold that a meeting the aristocratic early in the atrons year should , before pled the ge season themp
selves to withhold ; their orders from those establishments which refuse of to loyers adopt have the too twelve often -hour not system been ; adhered and as to the . or promises at best
• Association onl the y emp ladies partiall of should y the fulfilled aristocracy be voted , the an first would indispensable -hand ' as s monthl a bod requirement y tak note e up to . the the If
wished matter thus that , this the suggestion evil must give way not , . be It disregarded is earnestl y , ; y and to be if
may much the ladies anxiety of the to ameliorate Dressmakers the ' Institution hard fate , of who their profess humble so attire
sistersto whose skill' they are indebted for the they and are so the , proud self-interest to wear , of will adop loyers t and shall act thus zealousl be enlisted y upon it in ,
limits the cause of of twelve abrid hours ging the a emp day hours , we of may labour reasonabl within y the look moderate to see
hardest much It is effected task a melancholy -mistresses . reflection to their own that sex women , hut there should ents is too of be much the
millinery emp evidence loyers of establishm of this labour fac ents , t therefore in . the Let working , the bestir high themselves - arrangem born patronesses such in time , of m and any the ,
to h shal j those exerting l render which their the have next united preceded fashionable influ it ence ; and , " insist season , above upon be " made a all s , triking let changes them honestl contrast tak as e
care to see that the regulations that may are y carried Philanthrop out . ists have described the of this
professional system of white experience slave-driving of its shocking , and physicians effects consequences in have hurry added ing hun their - doubt
such dreds warnings of young have creatures not been every altogether year to the in grave vain . ; and But , no whatever , there
the public is temporary a good constan attention is alleviation transient t tendency is directed or the to ch fall temptation ang to back e other may upon have matters to perpetuate excessive been ; and produced work thus the system , while when
remains in full force . , Sincethenthe evil of excessive labour this ill-used class of , , is still the ruleand its
effectual miti among gation tep the th exception at can be , it taken is persons important to secure to the tak end e the , in view most .
ss The " -Times" of March 30 th 1853 in one of its " leaders , " mine , which , th
commenting on a letter of ey published , says ,
Jl Season With The Dressmakeks. 273
Jl SEASON WITH THE DRESSMAKEKS . 273
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 273, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/57/
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