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    146 MEETINGS AT GLASGOW AjSTD EDINBURGH ...

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    ,. ,, * The Of Social Annual Science Mee...

    Nor is It only as sj ) eetators and listeners that tlie ranks of the who Associ has ation any are thing thus - to thrown say "worth open hearing , to women 1 has . an - Every equal woman chance of member

    beinglistened to with ally man member ; and we are bound to bear our testimony that this _ " innovation / ' as we have heard it calledis in

    , every way satisfactory In Its results . _Throug-h the whole week women members thronged the sectionsshowing * ~ b their intelligent

    and interested attention that the subjects , discussed y were not foreign to their minds and thoughtswhile those who took part in the

    proceedings met with a courteous , and deferential hearing from _, numerous and mixed audiences .

    In the department of " Punishment and Reform , " and again in that of "Education" . Miss Carpenter took a _jarominent parther

    long' and highly , successful devotion to these most important , branches of social economy rendering- her one of the most valued

    and valuable contributors to their statistics . _, Mrs . Bodichon and Miss Jessie Boucherett had on middle

    papers class education for girls' * , and Miss L . Hope contributed another on the same subject , with special reference to Scotland . These _papers

    were listened to with great interest and attention , and elicited considerable discussion and encomiumproving that the necessitof a

    , y more practical education for girls of the middle classes has taken _, deep hold of the public mind .

    Miss Powers and Miss Bernard had papers in the Public Health department "On the Diffusion of Sanitary Knowled" and "On

    the Improvement of Nurses in Country Districts . " ge , Section B . of Social Economy was devoted to the industrial

    _employment of women . It is to this section , and to two special meetings which grew out of it' that we would call the attention of

    our readers . , The section opened with a few prefatory remarks from the

    chairthe man following , Sir John 1 _rejDort Stewart of the Forbes Societ , after y for which the Emp Miss loyment M . M of . Hays Wom read en ,

    BJ 3 PORT OF THE SOCIETY _POU PROMOTING THE EMPLOTMENT OF _WOMEN .

    "As this is the first formal report Issued by the Society for the Employment of "Womenthe Committee have thought it desirable

    , briefly to state its origin and objects before proceeding to give an account of its past efforts and indicate its aims for the future .

    " Nearly two years ago a few ladles , feeling * deeply the helpless and necessitous condition of the great number of women obliged to

    resort to non-domestic industry as a means of subsistence , consulted together as to the best way in which they might bring social

    position and influence to their aid .

    by * Miss We Boucherett give the p will aper be b g y iven Mrs in . the Bodichon Journal in for the December current . number , that

    146 Meetings At Glasgow Ajstd Edinburgh ...

    146 _MEETINGS AT _GLASGOW _AjSTD EDINBURGH ,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 146, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/2/