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392 SOCIETY JFOR PROMOTING THE
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The Establishment Of This Society Was Co...
room , after the man employed in rolling ( that is , inking ) the form has taken by it to most the -wetting simple -room arrangement , where it have is washed been . Thus these and the c great onl difficulties novelty ? is
that a tlie man clicks' for women , instead of overcome for men ; . y " Twelve compositors are already employed at the Yictoria Press ( five of
whom were apprenticed by the Society for Promoting the Employment of be "Women inspected , the this rest evening by their , own and , relatives among many or friends smaller ) . and Some mor of e their difficult work kinds can
of printing ' There seems , the first to be book no which kind of has Printing been comp for leted which in the women office are . not well adapted , for if what is called Jobbing" "Work requires the more frequent
liftthan exercise ing of any the of other cases the feminine bran , and ch consequentl of quality the business of y taste a greater , it , while also amount the affords regularit of greater ph y ysical and room compara strength for the
as tive the ease establishment of _Newspaper of the and Book Victoria work Press make them has been equall it y has suitable turned . Hecent out for one well-known publisher , ( in addition to all the other , work of the office , )
no less than a sheet of sixteen pages a day . ' There is another occupation connected with Printing which will open emrecting ployment for for the the Press most ; nor cultivated is there class any reason of women wh , y that their of emp Reading loyment and in Cor this
branch separate should rooms be being confined always to provided offices in for which readers women . Accuracy alone are , qui compositors ckness of , eyeand a thorough knowledge of orthographygrammarand punctuation
are , required for this work , and the remuneration , obtained , is consequently , _Considerable . "It must be a subject of congratulation to every well-wisher of the cause
in for extending which the the Society emp has loyment been of established women . , that The one Yictori great a step Press has is been no longer taken an experimentbut an accomplished success ; and there can be no question
that henceforth , women will be employed in printing establishments , for the movement cessfully rnade is likel in y a to branch receive of an industry additional never impetus before , as open the attempt to _women so / _suc has
already received considerable support from the press and the public generally , so that we have no hesitation in advising those desirous of furthering the inthe terests Printing of any business girl requiring at the remunerative Yictoria Press emp or loyment other , to office apprentice which her to
hereafter be opened on the same plan . " any may At the conclusion , Mr . Hastings said he could not refrain from
noticing * a very important omission in Miss Faithfull ' s paper- She had not said that it was owing to her energy , perseverance , and
discretion that the attempt had proved so successful , and that it was to her efforts we now owed the fact that the first woman ' s
_printing-office was so well organised and regulated , and had been conducted with such skill for the business , and such kind thought for
the workers , that most , if not all , the objections urged against such . a scheme had been proved futile at once and for ever .
The Rev . C . Mackenzie seconded the previous resolution , and moved " Tliat it is desirable to improve the qualifications of women
for serving in _shojDS and taking other situations which require a knowledge of accounts . " Mr . Mackenzie dwelt upon the very
imperfect manner in which women of all classes are instructed in arithmetic , and showed how necessary and useful a thorough
knowto led support ge of accounts themselves would , but be , for not those only who for lead those a comp arativel comp y elled idJte
392 Society Jfor Promoting The
392 SOCIETY _JFOR PROMOTING THE
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 392, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/32/
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