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      286 Open Council.

      286 OPEN COUNCIL .

      To The Editor Of The English Woman's Jou...

      To the Editor of the English Woman ' s Journal . cannot Madam inform , correspondent LSGrof institution which at

      the present I plan trains formed or b sends y your the out Workhouse girls expressl Yisiting her . y that as . Society the . " maids inmates any for -of an -all will Industrial -work not , be " but Hom above if e is carried outI think I can promise

      taking girls we the find situations in , the workhouses she mentions would . It is be exactl fitted y these for , were places they from that not the the always strong want

      of demoralised classification by a superintendence residence in them , and , whether proper short occup or ation long . , Only the other day one of these , girls , whom I found quickly returned to the workhouse for ,

      they told in me taug the she workhouse ht had her neither left her Our of place these chief because aim necessary will she be could occup to send ations neither our in irls iron the to p nor aup the cook er colonies school ,

      but or able many laces may as maids not wish . -of- to all go -work , and at we home should provided then be they glad g to are get not them in their suit- ,

      old The nei p carry ghbourhoods ing out . of this plan depends entirel , y on the agreement of the to such

      tape but Poor it " Law is and to Board be strictl hoped to legal make that interpretations common the payments sense of and so guardians as justice to enable will prevail us to a carry Home over out ( i legal red our - ,

      plan before many y months have elapsed . , Your obedient Servant ,

      Tjie Hon _" . Sec . op the _"Wobkhottse _Visiting Society .

      May 4 th .

      To The Editor Of The English Woman's Jou...

      To the Editor of the English Woman ' s Journal .

      Madam :, I believe it is generally known that the societies industrious bwhich artisans of the London

      have services ment formed of of a few the among club pence st doctor them per week selves and , they a benefit sum are sufficient entitled , to for y relief decent , in upon burial sickness . pay , But the

      probabl societies y your even readers the widows are , not of deceased aware that memb women ers : nor are do ineli I g know ible to of these any

      simil desirable ar means , that there of ind should ependent be an relief attempt open to to th form em . such I have a society long thoug and ht per i - t

      , would haps it make might it be known "begun that in the he was following desirous manner to ori . _^ inate If an such active an institution clergyman g

      and amongst that his he would female parishioners ladldevote , whether two hours wive a week s , widows to the , reception or single of women their , gy

      to subscri avail ptions themselves , it mig of ht this soon means be ascertained of self-support whether or not the . women If also were the desirous clergythe habit of the would make

      man ' s wifeand other ladies in visiting poor , a poin to its t of success exp , lainin . Thinking g the objects this suggestion of the society may to be them useful , it , would tend greatly

      I am , Madam , yours respectfully ,

      S . L .

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    • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1860, page 286, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061860/page/70/