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    192 TWO CHAPTERS ABOUT CHAIRWOMEN.

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    Chapter I. My Experiences Of The Class.

    Chapter II . WHAT MIGHT BE _DOH 5 _TE FOR CHARWOMEN AND THEIR

    EMPLOYERS . I should not have entered so fully into Elizabeth ' s story , had I

    not needed it to illustrate a portion of my idea of what might be done to obviate the inconveniences felt by those who need occasional

    assistance in their homes , to prevent any loss of time or difficulty in obtaining" such helpand . though last not least , to assist willing

    workers in securing constant , and reputable employment and fair remuneration .

    In all towns of any considerable size there are many persons who earn the whole or a part of their subsistence by going out to

    work as charwomen . I myself know several young -women who live bthis sort of daily laborand I have long thought that , if in

    y , each large town a Charwomen ' s or Female Daily _^^ orkers' Home could be established , it would prove both convenient to employers ,

    and beneficial , in a moral and pecuniary point of view , to the employed . We have a Home for Governesses , and another for

    Dressmakers' Assistants ; why not establish one on the same princile for our still more humble helpers in household drudgery ?

    mi p In ht the b first the p co lace -operative , the unmarried principle charwoman , obtain accommodation or childless widow of a

    superior g , kind y to the single room which her earnings enable her to afford , and that , too , at a less cost . The Dressmakers' Home has

    proved that such an establishment would soon become self-supportingfor the wages of a charwoman are often superior to those

    which , she can earn -who plies the needle for bread . In such a Home , too , the servant out of place , who has no home of her own ,

    might find a temporary refuge . Then , instead of spending all her wages while waiting for a situation , and being perhaps exposed to

    temptations which make one shudder , she might obtain partial employment Of course at least one , of and the throug greatest h it advantages a permanent of such engagement an establishm . ent

    would be broug , ht into play by means of a simple system of registration . There might be the charwomen ' s register , in which not

    only the names of inmates of The Home would be entered , but also those of the married workers who , dwelling under a husband ' s roof

    and protection , are still desirous of doing * something towards the bread and butter . Such an individual might enter her name at The

    Home , giving also that of some respectable person to whom reference could be made as to her character and qualifications . Thus the

    reunmarried gisters mig residents ht be useful in The to three Home classes , the married wanting wlio emp wish loyment to obtain : the

    an occasional day ' s work , and the servant out of place . Instead To the of emp havin loyer to also ask they first would one nei prove hbour an immense and then convenience another , if .

    g g , she can tell where help for the morrow may be obtained , and tlion

    192 Two Chapters About Chairwomen.

    192 TWO CHAPTERS ABOUT _CHAIRWOMEN .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1860, page 192, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051860/page/48/