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396 EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEK.
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The Establishment Of This Society Was Co...
ing graduall "We irons will not from and de tne sp willing air men , therefore l who resi now gned , not wield of to violentl fitter them hands , y but wresting of seeing We the will these comb not imp and despair lemen crimp of t *
introducing sent virtuall y women y excluded into y b the y a trade quiet of and hair determined -work , from . combination , which they not are to at teach prethe business
them " The the expense finishing of and training more a delicate few women part in of each of these . departments would has to feel hat
t not hese be few great are , and p the etent society to practise , ever the y shadowy reason barrier sure wM , t h now as soon ludes as feel them would hesitation fade away in e . arnestl Funds , and however confidentl , are necessar asking y _^ their and friends the committee not to
risk no money on what is no longer y merely a phil y anthropic speculation , , but to contribute liberally to what they trust will soon become a satisfactory and practical work . "
A vote of thanks having been , moved to the chairman , tlie company repaired to a lower room , where specimens of women ' s
work were displayed . On tlie walls "were Inmg some of the designs in scrolls and flowers , drawn by the pupils of the
Gower-Street School , and lent for the occasion by Miss Gann . Deeds and other la / w papers , engrossed and copied by women , were spread upon
tables , and keenly and a little suspiciously scrutinised by tlie legal portion of the assembly , obtaining however , finally , in all cases , a
verdict of very hearty and somewhat surprised approval . Miss Faithfull exhibited specimens of every possible style of
printing , varying from a compact and beautifully printed volume down to all kinds of ornamental bills , programmes , cards , etc ., and
terminating in a colossal hand-bill on cardboard , showing various employments now opened for women , both by this society and
others , and well adapted to hang up in girls' schools as an admonition to choose and prepare for some remunerative occupation . *
The specimens met with universal approval , and we may concludefrom tlie disappearance of all of a portable size , that the
visitors , desired to retain some positive proof of how quickly a woman ' s fingers can be trained to compete successfully with the
long practised skill of man . We may congratulate not only the committee , who provided a
most interesting and pleasant evening ' s entertainment , but the members of the society generally , on the result of the
_conversazione ; and let us , with a far deej ) er feeling , congratulate not only tlie earnest and benevolent whom this society helps to help
others , but the innumerable crowd of destitute and forlorn women , who only " ask leave to toil , _" and who see , at last , some resource
opened to them besides the overcrowded ranks of teachers or the hardly more pitiable band of needlewomen .
Of these but a few have as yet been helped , but the effort has taken the right direction ; opposition after a little demur has faded
away , arid we trust the example set by this society will be followed in many of our large towns where the destitution and distress are
only less than in London .
* These cards can be obtained at the " English Woman ' s Journal " _office .
396 Employment Of Womek.
396 EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEK .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 396, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/36/
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