Ladies (Newspaper) - May 18, 1872, London, Middlesex No. 8.-Vol. I. a Beautifully Coloured Design for a Doyley and an Eight Page Illustrated Supplement J MAY 1872. Registered for Transmission J Price Sixpence SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE EMPLOYMENT OF THE experience of too many testifies of the trials and sufferings of proving how uncertain and perishable riches Instances of unlooked for of the failure of the most well-founded of the breaking down of the best established and the painful facts and cruel sufferings should awaken every intelligent woman in every sphere to a sense of the importance of special training for with a view of fitting them For the vicissitudes of This cannot be too much insisted because it is thoroughly known that the position of many women of the middle classes is extremely as often they are unexpectedly thrown upon their own they are forced to wear out their days in a miserable or to seek such poor employment as their unskilled hands and untrained abilities can It is to aid and encourage mothers and daughters who have the industry and courage to fit themselves for some useful and remunerative work that the society has been established for Promoting the Employment ot It is one of the most important organisations arising out of and connected with the Social Science The thirteenth annual report has iust been and a perusal of its pages will prove that the society is really a valuable Whether a girl or a young woman of superior position of necessity seeks employments or whether a lady of good and good intentions desires aid her less fortunate sisters in bettering their the society furnishes to both a favourable Thirteen years of experience have resulted in the accumulation of much practical If a respectable girl needs advice in obtaining employment she can apply to no better Experience proves that competent to whatever branch of industry they may have turned their seldom remain long but have had no- special and have not the opportunity of obtaining are exposed to every to and gnawing Catching at any straw thrown in their they are ready to pay their last sovereign to learn some which the alluring advertisement defines as profitable home for veriest snare and delusion ever laid for the ' A case came under bur notice of a widow and daughter who answered an advertisement for hands to A photograph was given to be coloured as a When it was taken in it was pronounced perfectly a price was mentioned which promised to afford quite a but it that none but the best colours would and as a guarantee to themselves the firm required all whom they employed to purchase a box of their in which alone they could have implicit The mother and her anxious proceed without a moment's delay with what appeared so good a were induced to pay a for the box of and were promised more colouring orders on the The morrow but an excuse was Eventually one or two more subjects were given but when they were equal to the first dissatisfaction was Two or three more efforts were made with a like and at last the putting on a bold declared such work would not and refused to take back the colours on the ground that they had been Farther investigation proved that the box of colours would have been dear at and the widow and daughter awoke to the painful consciousness thai they had been Of course legal redress was not as it seldom is in such though they are occurring in some form or other by hundreds It is to protect the inexperienced against similar swindles that the society is some extent and there is nothing for had had neither training nor practical and nineteen were only able to undertake casual The other ninety-two had been trained to their or had acquired useful experience for It may be well to remark here that the great obstacle to the improvement of girls and women in the direction of profitable pursuits is their disinclination to persevere in Hundreds of smart girls think they can do of and so but they are too often unwilling to one thing Steady application to any task for an hour is considered in too - - which it is more A register entirely free of charge is kept at the Every applicant whose name is entered on the register is required to bring two letters of recommendation from who answer for her thorough respectability and willingness to There can scarcely be a well disposed young person who will have difficulty in finding the two requisite There can scarcely be a householder in course of the will not meet with a desirable opportunity for doing a service so and should the introduction prove there is the strongest motive for following it with a liberal many circles a horrid and it is understood to be The number of registered applicants during the year has been and in almost 415. Of fifty-nine were girls under desiring to This failing is the ruin of thousands of whose lack of success seems somehow contrive to drift from the cosy into the bleak and homeless People wonder how it is that such though well-known to be what is called never get who of all things make a merit of doing nothing when necessity does not compel if they should suffer a reverse of are the precise counterparts of those This society is calculated to bring girls of all classes face to face with these Whether necessity may ever compel it or it is the deep interest of every girl to accustom herself to specific self-imposed so that she may learn to govern her own Girls whose necessities or inclinations them to seek profitable employment cannot fail to derive advantages from communicating with the The only fault of the society seems to have been that it has been conducted too and that consequently so few even know of its It possesses both the machinery and the means for great so that a girl need not fear she in one of a forlorn crowd similar to those who congregate in the dingy dens of whose business it is to speculate upon The society has been successful not only in connection with the more ordinary industries of in. new industries in which girls arid be suitably ' Engagements have been obtained past for and one Employment lias been procured enumerating for the London School and music reading sick and vellum lace and Special attention is directed to engraving I upon just as peculiarly adapted for the employment of women and Those who have good cut glass and would like to have it would assist the society by placing it in their hands for The owner will have the double satisfaction of encouraging a commendable industry and possessing of which specimens may be seen oh at a moderate Girls or women who are desirous of acquiring art receive instructions of the those who are already proficient may probably procure good The routine business of the society for the past year has included 2514 visits of The letters written and received amounted to 3608. The activity of the lady secretary may be somewhat judged of from the fact that she paid loo visits of inquiry during the We have taken special notice of this society as one worthy of it. Those who have or orders to should make a note of it. Those especially who have seen afar off how advantageous it would be to earn a little may take heart and apply with confidence for that advice and practical assistance which is so needful to make a Judging from the reports of there is reason to conclude that the from the Queen with her 10/. to the humbler 5-r., as well as the derive mutual 81. Bridesmaid's from Madame 41, make their first start in them have either received or are now instructed in various branches of Of the between the - ages of twenty and of eighty-six have received systematic or have held positions in which they have acquired valuable and eighty-nine are seeking situations for the first having never hitherto been out of the circle of their the remaining eleven were ladies whose health was much and from various were unable to undertake regular though their testimonials vouched for their high personal Of the 170 who were more than thirty-five years of several were past sad instances of painful reverses of to which even those who begin with the brightest prospects are unfortunately Even at that advanced
