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    The chief objections urged against evening schools are , the late hour at which the operative is liberated , and the fatigue felt after a

    hard day's work . The best answer to these is the success which has attended the few efforts made to establish such schools ; the

    change to a little intellectual effort has been gladly welcomed , and the instruction received has assisted many a young woman to

    manage her resources and make her family comfortable when she became a wife .

    The providing of work for women at home is a matter not easy of accomplishment , involved , as it is , with economic considerations .

    The sewing machine may be made an agent of great importance as ¦* the The patents sewed muslin expire , or and embroidery the machine trade can affords be had a at large a reduced amount price of .

    employment in this way . Formerly , embroidered muslin was almost exclusively supplied from France : we now export largely there , the

    duty having been considerably lowered on all pieces of work not exceeding 2 s . 6 d . in price . This trade attained considerable

    importance during the famine in Ireland . Amongst the many benevolent exertions for alleviating the miseries of the time , none were

    more successful than the efforts to establish sewed-muslin schools ; teachers were procured from the North , and where this was not

    practicable , ladies became the instructors . Four hundred thousand Irish women were thus employed by Glasgow merchants . Much of

    the benefit derived passed away with the necessity for exertion , but the good effects remained in a trade which in 1853 gave occupation to

    two hundred thousand young women in the intervals of domestic employment . The disturbances in America , and , perhaps , a change in

    fashion , have latterly caused a falling-off in the demand . An increase hashowevernow taken place , owing * in a degree to the results of the

    French , treaty , , and a new market in India ; and from another cause also , which adds to the gratitude already felt in Ireland to the wise

    and good sovereign who in her own overwhelming sorrow has not forgotten the wants of her meanest subject . A memorial was

    lately presented to the Queen asking for her patronage of this manufacture . Extensive orders , accompanied by the newest

    Parisian designs , procured and selected by her Majesty , were sent to Belfast and Glasgow , and an increase of 25 per cent , has quickly

    followed her gracious interference . An attempt has been made to introduce the sewing machine into this trade , but the nature of the

    - work precludes its use except in stereotyped patterns . I have ascertained , in answer to numerous inquiries , that the

    _- obstacles to the employment of women as overseers , forewomen , & care : ignorance of machinery and its uses ; deficiency in

    arithmetical , knowledge ; and a want of power to control the women . In manufactories , strictly so called , it may require time to qualify

    < women as machinists ; but in paper mills , sewing factories , and •'• numerous other trades , such an excuse is not tenable ; attention

    is fast being directed to remedy the want of arithmetical ac-

    Woman's Supervision Of Women's Industry....

    woman ' s supervision of women ' s industry . 117

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1862, page 117, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101862/page/45/