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    A RAMBLE WITH MRS. GRUNDY. 271

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    evolve dustrious s from girl her is dea misfor f and tune dumb that , and concentration the blessed law of will of compensation and purpose

    which is as wing's to the attainment of any object . printing te Onl the y * two until among idi this ty with * these establishment which young their " women was flexible started and feminine g , irls and knew it is fingers any cheering thing adap * to of t

    themselves norap to the picking up the type , and the hearty interest and enjoyment The compositors they throw ' trade into should work be so in eminen the hands tly sui of women ted to them only . . They

    are To em men inentl belong y suited * the to it imposition , and it is eminentl and press y - suited work . to them Never . etween was there

    and a trade women so undeniabl as this y of capable printing of . profitable A visit to division the this Victoria division b Printing carried men

    work ou Press t on for will a large women convince scale , the , any as we one posi hope t of this before and , and long press wi to - th work see it for , the men composi , b we shall tors '

    have a new era in the trade : beneficial alike to Women y opening and a to new the , public profitable t large , and b sui facili table tating source a of reduction employmen of the t to present them ;

    by enormous the tyrannical charges monopol a for printing , y of y , the in a journ measure eyman forced printer upon . the master

    At the Victoria Press there are two skilled women-compositors . therto some One , defaulting an gained Irish a woman precarious workman , "who or living having to hel b p y somehow a it t , a called pinch learn in , and to t supp turned the l trade y the adrift , t p lace when the hi o - f

    the some men need . paper As was luck , announcing over would , dismissed have the it opening b , y this the poor master of a woman prin and or ting " there bullied saw establishment a she paragr " resolved ou ap by in to in

    find since London her she , wi way th to female ted it . herself No compositors sooner at the resolved , and manager then than ' s done office , and ragged a few and weeks

    unwashedwi presen th no clothes to her back save those she , stood in , but witli chance courage , were and skil iven l to her earn Tha for t herself chance a she comfortable hasand living the sudden if only and the

    courageous fli g ght from . Limerick to London , bids fair to turn out zest type satisfactory The p for leasan other the t t last o to skilled emp see two lo increasin yer compositor years and , has g emp in , re a loyed speed turned prin . ter and to ' s it daug with terit hter an y , de eagerness h barred day as from and the

    rust of rest wears off , . observe " Good " better k t than his , the Mrs . tedious Grund stitch y , " we stitch ventured , stitch , at of length the poor to

    seamstress ; better for health of mind and , body , and far better paid . " ith A grun eviden t , t in th t t l from y answer we obt t ained ano , t but her the and old at lad length y passed sig ' -

    n w ified her wish eres to visit the press case -room o . But , as women , are not oug emp ht loyed to be on emp this loyed work at at manual the Victoria labor Printing so severe Press anywhere , and n else ever ,

    we will not follow her there .

    A Ramble With Mrs. Grundy. 271

    A RAMBLE WITH MRS . GRUNDY . 271

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1860, page 271, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061860/page/55/