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    262 FROM PARIS.

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    besides which a monthly allowance from public funds is given of three francs to those who are afflicted with palsy in two limbs , five francs to

    those who are blind and those who are upwards of seventy-five years ment old , and of the eig bureaux ht francs is to confide those d who to the are legal turned and ei ecclesiastical ghty . The manage authori-

    ties of each arrondissement and to Sisters of Charity . My readers may remember that La Soeur Rosalie was at the head of a Maison

    de Secours in the Faubourg St . Marceau , and that the funds of tlie Bureau de Bienfaisance for that district passed through her hands .

    The house which I visited consisted of several buildings , apparently erected at different times ; some of which were new and adapted to

    their special purposes , and others merely the common dwellings of tlie quarterNo sort of uniform order or architecture was visible from the

    . street ; but the tower of a beautiful chapel only recently finished rose above the wall . One of the Sisters conducted us through the

    classrooms of their school ; we had come between twelve and two , and the day-scholarsof whom there are _& ve hundredall girlswere absent .

    , , , The class-rooms were .. large and airy , and well fitted up with every requisite . A good education is given ; reading , -writing , sewing , and

    enough arithmetic to enable them to keep household bills ; likewise a little music . The Sisters have also a hundred and & £ ty little orphans

    in the house , { internes , ) who were eating a very good dinner in a long salle under the chapel ; very fat and rosy they looked , as we walked

    sixteen down the , the long youngest tables at _^ ive which . One they of sat the . The class elde -rooms st mi in ght this possibl house y be is

    much more ornamental than the rest ; it is appropriated to the first like class that of girls of a ; Parisian and they drawing sew there -room . The and floor the is whole stained room , and is p kep olished t in

    , perfect order by the girls , who are thus taught the neat household work required in gentlemen ' s families . This is therefore the very

    industrial school for young servants for which we are crying out in Englandand whichto the despair of housekeepers and

    philan-, , throp There ists , is it seems also a so Creche difficult where to organise we saw amongst forty-five us . babies whose

    mothers were gone out to , work ; each had its little curtained cot ; some were asleepsome ling screamingothers rolling about on the

    carpet laid down , for them y in the middle , of the room . They looked tolerably clean and healthy ; certainly in much better condition than

    average London babies of the same class . One little boy , about a oldrejoiced in the romantic name of Hippolyte . tie was an

    year , immense placid child , and looked as lusty as young Hercules strangling the serpent .

    It would require repeated visits at different times of the day , to observe the full effects of this mixed system of legal and religious

    charity ; and no one should presume to offer any decided opinion from hearsay and from reading alone . All partiesCatholics and

    , Protestants , have alike concurred in telling me that the lower classes

    in Paris are , as a rule , infidels in religion , and in a state of terrible

    262 From Paris.

    262 FROM PARIS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1860, page 262, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061860/page/46/