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At the meeting where this speech was delivered, Joseph Sturge a world-wide philanthropist, and a member of the society of Friends presided, and addressed the meeting. He is in the very front ranks of non-conformists, and looks with no unfriendly eye upon America.
The Barnardo Homes will not receive lads who are over sixteen, whereas the Army takes them up to eighteen. So it comes about that Barnardo's sometimes send on cases which are over their age limit to Sturge House. I saw the boys at their dinner, and although many of them had a bad record, certainly they looked very respectable, and likely to make good and useful men.
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Pett backed convulsively into the padded recesses of her chair, feeling as if somebody had thrown a brick at her. "Good afternoon," she said faintly. "Gladda meecher, siz Pett. Mr. Sturge semme up. Said y'ad job f'r me. Came here squick scould." "I beg your pardon?" "Squick scould. Got slow taxi." "Oh, yes."
Also, there is a garden, and in it I saw a number of pots of flowers, which had just been sent as a present by a boy whom the Army helped three years ago, and who is now, I understand, a gardener. Sturge House struck me as a most useful Institution; and as there is about it none of the depressing air of the adult Shelters, my visit here was a pleasant change.
The reason she gave for this was, that she went to an estate some miles distant to spend the Sabbath with her husband. Mr. Bourne, by the aid of funds left in his hands by Mr. Sturge, is about to establish a school on this plantation. Mr. B., at a previous visit, had informed the people of what he intended to do, and asked their co-operation.
Joseph Sturge, erected at the Five Ways, Birmingham. There was an immense gathering on that occasion, and of course I was there. I secured a good position for hearing, but, unfortunately, there was a woman near me with a crying baby in her arms.
That their representation will produce a powerful effect upon the minds of the people of this country, we feel as confident as we do that our gracious Queen will concede any boon in her royal gift, necessary to the welfare of her colored subjects." The following are a series of letters to Mr. Sturge, published in the British Emancipator for Nov. 28, 1838.
At the meeting of the Association of Registered Medical Women, already referred to, Miss Sturge spoke of the good results obtained in a school where, during the first two years after puberty, the girls were kept in bed for the first two days of each menstrual period. Some years ago Dr. "If the brain claims her whole vitality, how can there be any proper development?
Sturge presents the subject with very great force, the more so from the consistency of his example. The next morning, as we were sitting down to breakfast, our friends sent in to me a plate of the largest, finest strawberries I have ever seen, which, considering that it was only the latter part of April, seemed to me quite an astonishing luxury.
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