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    i 148 MEETINGS AT GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH,...

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    " The Committee would _acknowledge the great assistance rendered "by Lord Shaftesbury and otherson behalf of the Victoria Press ,

    , whose success is mainly due to the influence of the Society . We must not omit to mention that our late able and energetic secretary is

    the manager of the office , and has now sixteen girls under her judicious carewho have attained a considerable degree of efficiency .

    , They now print the English Woman ' s Jouenai , a monthly periodical devoted to the interests of women .

    " A still lighter and more suitable employment has been found in law-copying ; and the Committee undertook the responsibility of

    opening a law stationer's office in Portugal Street , Lincoln ' s Inn . Ten female clerks are employed in this office , having learnt the

    simpler parts of the business in a few weeks in a manner satisfactory to their employers . The necessity of a paid superintendent ,

    with all the other expenses of a pretty large establishment , have trenched largely on the funds of the Society . A lady "who has taken

    a most prominent part in the movement has offered to advance £ 200 if our present superintendent will undertake to conduct the

    business and work it for her own profit and that of the clerks . The Committee agreed that this offer be accepted , and have referred

    it to the managing" committee to arrange the details . " The Committee consider that by this means the funds of the

    Society will be set free for other purposes , and that it is their province to open up new branches of business , leaving them to be conducted

    by others in the ordinary way of trade . The law clerks have done a very fair amount of business during the time they have been at '

    work , but further capital is required for its extension and support , and the Committee think it will be on a more satisfactory footing

    as a private enterprise . " The Committee were desirous of extending the employment of

    women as book-keepers and cashiers in shops . They found that the great obstacle to their progress in this direction was the

    ignorance of women of the higher branches of arithmetic , and resolved to open book-keeping classesin which the daughters of tradesmen

    might be qualified for clerks , and cashiers , and the higher branches of book-keeping . One of the ladies of the Committee undertook

    to establish , at her own risk , a middle class school , and the Committee agreed to give her a grant of £ 40 on condition that morning

    , and evening classes for book-keeping were established in connexion with her school .

    " The school has a certificated teacher , but as it has been so short a time in operation , the Committee are not prepared to state the

    result of this experiment . " With regard to the future course of action to be _adoj _^ ted by the

    Society , the Committee have to suggest the desirability of findi - ng an outlet for the emigration of a class of educated women .

    " The number who might take advantage of an opening of this

    kind would at first be comparatively limited _, * but the inquiries made

    I 148 Meetings At Glasgow And Edinburgh,...

    i 148 MEETINGS AT GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH ,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 148, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/4/