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A New Feature in Journalism.Some months since, a young lady in Cincinnati, established in that city, a printing office for females. She opened rooms, furnished them in the most comfortable style, placed a fine library, a piano, (fee. in the office, and then selected from among the most indigent sewing girls of her na tive city, some forty young females, to do the type-setting, and other mechanical la bor of her establishment. With no thought of pecuniary gain, (it is said,) she invested several thousand dollars in her ladies printing office, solely with a view to benefit the struggling females in the west, who were obliged to toil at the needle for mea gre wages. The result of this philautbro pic enterprise is now the theme of universal prise. Ella Wentworth, the projector of the enterprise, has already had the pleasure of seeing her Literary Journal firmly established as one of the first papers in the West. The forty sewing girls to whom she gave employment, have now comfortable homes, and are earning six to nine dollars per week, at a pleasaut and honorable employment.Actuated by the success of her enterprise in the West, Ella contemplates establishing a similar office in Philadelphia, and the first number of the Philadelphia Literary Journal will be out in a few days. The Ohio papers speak of Mbs Wentworth as a lady of fortune and influence, and com mend her enterprise in strong terms.— Ella claims the sympathies of the public. She asks that the benevolent will not forget the poor sewing girl, who is forced to toil from dawn to midnight, for a meagre remuneration.The price of Miss Wentworth’s journal is one dollar per year.
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Richmond Mail
Richmond, Virginia, US
Sat, Jan 21, 1854
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