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    FBOM PARIS. 259

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    __ . XXXVIII.—FEOM PAHIS. _ .— Him *^ - ...

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    - No. II. I came here for the express pu...

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    -*«»- There Has Long Existed In Society ...

    the workers . There is often a cry among ladies " Wliere can we get work done ? Can you tell one of a needlewoman ? " Earnestly we institution

    to would visit appeal the spot to such , and persons examine to send for themselves their work to the the merits of the , excited btheir and

    good workers conduct ; and may the interest lead to perhap further s exertions y and liberalit industry y in the

    behalf of needlewomen as a class . L . N _t—^ —

    Fbom Paris. 259

    FBOM PARIS . 259

    __ . Xxxviii.—Feom Pahis. _ .— Him *^ - ...

    __ . XXXVIII . _—FEOM PAHIS . _ . — Him _*^ _~ " -

    - No. Ii. I Came Here For The Express Pu...

    - No . II . I came here for the express purpose of making * inquiries about the and also to learn what could

    regarding state of female the ch industry aritable in organisations France , of the country , in I which take so large a partand I think it best to record simply what

    women I have seen and heard , without , any attempt to elaborate by help of books or statistics , at least at this time . I shall therefore follow my

    journ In al day first by leisure day . hourswhile waiting for introductions , I went

    to devoted La my Sal to petriere the female , an sex immense and , cont public aining hosp a population ital and asy of lum five , thousand entirely

    souls . It must be rememb , ered that the poor-laws of France do not in the least resemble ours there are no workhouses , nor is there , so

    far as I can learn , any absolut ; e legal right to subsistence in the last extremity , such as is guaranteed to all our Queen's subjects ; but the

    paupers , the aged , and the infirm are taken care of by innumerable private charities endowment , partly suppoi . We ted in by Eng the land state , can partl now y by hardl the church y conceive , or _Tby of

    such a system 9 its complexity , and the marvellous comprehensiveness which seizes and endeavors to supply every moral and material

    want . "Were our poor-laws withdrawn , our poor would perish like the files in winter befoie we could bring to bear a tenth part of the

    organisation necessary to succour or to train them . But in France , these charitiesthese industrial schoolsthese thousand and one

    in-, , stitutions of all kinds , have grown with the ages ; they were young while yet the population was scanty , and Paris lay clustered round

    about the feet of Notre Dame ; when the walls of the ancient city were laid low , and the leafy ring of the Boulevards encircled the

    wilderness of streets and houses which it did not any more confine , the charities grew and spread with the suburbs ; and now that Paris

    stretches to the outer fortifications , and the twelve _arrondissements have become twenty , each rejoices in its _JkTaison de Secour and Bureau de

    Bienfaisance _, where public and private beneficence are so inextricably mixed together that it is useless to attempt to define their

    individual share .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1860, page 259, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061860/page/43/