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    CULTIVATION OF FEMALE INDUSTRY IN IRELAN...

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    4 Part Ii. Needuework V. Domestic Servic...

    the earnest devotedness of Jolm Howard can be said to animate those of Ms . Whena few years sinceonr then War Minister ,

    the good and wise Sidney , , Lord Herbert , , called to the aid of the suffering * soldiery the courage , and the tenderness , and the

    selfdenial of women , the well-born , the accomplished , and the opulent most readily answered to the call . In the improved condition of

    military hospitals the immediate effect of that circumstance is to be recognised ; but , when the occasion passed away , the spirit-still

    remained , and in the many projects of active benevolence in which women have , since then , been engaging themselves , the results of

    the working of that spirit is traceable . Where public charity fails , woman ' s work is there activepractically exhibiting where the

    , deficiencies are , by supplying them , until wise legislation can apply the remedy . In no task can they act with more effect than in the

    care of the young , especially in the guidance and watchful guardianshiof young girls . Here it is that men can supply money and

    p patronage—the means to get education and the ways to get work ; but the peculiar training , the required knowledge , but , above all ,

    the sympathy , the encouragement ., the practical friendship , the example of purityreservemodestyself-control—all these , so

    necessary if the poor , girl is , to grow , up a blessing , not a curse , to the community , it must be left to women to supplement to the

    very utmost that man can do . " * The old race of Ireland wants something from its legislators . Its

    women beg for a boon that could be easily granted ; nay , they deserve it , by the sacred right which entitles those to help who help

    themselves ! As far forth as they were able , they have tried to exercise their talents . They have not neglected f " the gift of embroidery

    and all needlework " which was in them since the far back age in which the beautiful Eimer was courted by the Ulster champion Cuchulainn .

    This . noble lady was found by her suitor engaged in giving instruction in such arts ; and if any learned Irishman will translate for us

    the minute description of a lady ' s dress , contained in the story of the " Courtship of the Woman of Little Dowry" who was sought in

    , marriage by a monarch of Erinn in the sixth century , we shall see that in those days no small amount of cultivation was bestowed on

    the manufactures , to which our countrywomen are still addicted . It is far from uninteresting , that we have such an instance to show of

    the persistence of tastes and pursuits among the various species of particularl people in this y remarked island . . In the Quit case e distinct of our from crochet p lace illow this laces is , to the be

    common property of many mixed families , it is not imitative in its manipulation , had no formula or models to copy from , no foreign

    forerunners to pattern by , and yet it took its place in the land ; " The _f * Lectures Paper Workhouse read on at System the The MS . " Statistical . Mr Materials . S . O' and Shaug of Ancient Social hnessy Inquiry . Irish . Dublin History Society : Webb , of by , Ireland Printer Eugene . . Dublin Duff 1861

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 39, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/39/