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    OPElSf COUNCIL. 141

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    To The Editors Of The English Woman's Jo...

    promoted thread cotton , in so this to that way real every until fine stitch they sewing , is can , clearl which do all y seen manner mig , ht and possibl of work practising y , prove when them they remunerative with niight this be

    labour Instead . we began with setting them to make the various articles which , tthey do themselves not , know wore what ; bed " bed -gowns - , and " is aprons It is for a loose instance jacket . ( But with perhaps sleeves

    you a gown . Teaching finement country down of the le to all apron the elbow -string the , what _Ilsforth . It shape is but part is it of has now the being princi old-fashioned g pall iven y to retained it dress by the b of y con the the

    mill-hands peop its looseness over round the , breast and arms being a great convenience during , their employment . Many of the them factory off g and irls go to the mill bed in

    gowns smart flounced to work , and gowns resuming and crin the olines smarter , taking dress when the day ' s putting labour on is over . ) - _DSTow they accustomed to raddle " these bed-in a very rough

    way wish for for themselve neater are sewing s , and . could " It " 'll not do well understan up eno ' , d it , will and ; did gowns it would 's not the respond have gait we been to allays our in

    to make clined be to to ' em work take , and more dili they gentl pains stand y and with wear rapidl a less , " y & ; familiar c . and Perhaps slow article care they . to Their sew neatl great y aim was seemed rather

    desp There ised b was y them a matron . appointed to superintend , ( at 12 s . a week , ) ladies took 'days preferred to visit to , nine the for hours beg being inning from as it 10 to them 12-30 time , and to from round 2 to 5 the . mills Ten was yet

    ended open and by see sing if ing there the Morning was any " , and sick Evening gave work " to Hymns be obtained , which go Catholics . has We turned began and and out the

    undesirablebecause three-fourths of the girls are Roman , priests object , to their joining , so that instead of its being it a hol has y excited act of

    worshiit is a bone of contentionand the angry feelings are _Anything I p , think but in religious other . our , school is working thoroughly well . We every way

    iiave poor . young 128 girls women on the , many books of , whom and the are ladies orphans are , all becoming deprived friends of one parent of these or the otherThey have pawned nearleverything but the clothes they " stand

    . y wet in ; " days and some with of their them dri are pping almost and barefoot steaming ; clothes - it garments is pitiful there ; to yet see is at them present come of it on is

    necessary less citing has jealousy too to much exercise ( experience given caution to teaches her as ; but to ) if g b one iving y degrees girl however the ; mutual friendless good danger and feeling clothes ex is - - will oice in anoth

    improving , and , by arid by , the ladies hope that one rejer's lias thankful prosperity At been present for sent in further a this , reall ( a school great y orders Christian thing has which a sp large when irit , however . order funds for , are it work cannot low ) , . for execut Of which course e for the it a material will month be

    , or the A so District . newly set Provident up school funds on — similar St . Andrew princip ' s les School , but , without Heyrod the Street assistance , Travis e this of StreetAncoatsManchester—will be most thankful for ordersI nam

    . Ghorlton St because Jude , we or Parish visit _ISTeedlock , School it ourselves Scho Ladies ol , ; Carpenters but will not be to ' do be Hall ing unfai , a Lower real r , I kindness had Brook better Street if add they , The will and

    . ' s . shifts send orders shirts for inafores any kind aprons of , coarse nightgowns work— , & on c , fine for the we poor dare ; not or pincushion venture—

    covers , , servants , p ' aprons , , towels , & c . & c . [ We venture to suggest to such of our and readers fitted as may be in able to provide degree

    relieve material the , that overworked by sendin ladies g it read who y hav cut e out kindlundertaken , they may the superintendence some y

    of these schools . — Eb . j

    Opelsf Council. 141

    _OPElSf COUNCIL . 141

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1862, page 141, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101862/page/69/