The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-19 00:00:00

FEMALE EMPLOYMENT

The Wolverhampton Chronicle publishes the followings
from the district of Brierley-hill :—" On Thursday, before
John Leigh, Esq., a youth named Charles Bellingham,
charged a married woman with two children named Eliza
Davies, who worked in the same shop as a chain maker,
with assaulting him on the 22nd ult., at Cradley Heath,
in the parish of Rowley. Some dispute having arisen
between the parties, the defendant took up a coal hammer,
and with it struck the other a heavy blow on the head,
which produced a severe wound. The defefendant said
Bellingham had chained her child to the door, which,
however, the complainant denied. The defendant's hus-
band having stood forward, Mr. Leigh asked him what
he was, and what he got? He said he was a collier, and
earned 30s a week, if he worked six days. In answer to
Mr. Leigh. the wife said she worked in a shop, at chain
making, with thirteen others. Mr. Leigh, addressing
the husband, told him it would be a much more
desirable state of things if he would allow his wife to
attend to her duties in the house than set her to chain
making. It struck him (Mr. Leigh) that however useful
her working might be to him (the husband) when he was
himself slack, yet it was not the right sort of thing to set a
woman to work in a chain shop. What with washing and
mending, and making clothes and sewing, keeping the
children clean, and atteding to him, she would have
enough to do withuot chain making. -It might (added
Mr. Leigh) be the custom at Rowley, but it was a bad
custom. How could a wife know how to bring up children
if she went out to chain making, which was properly
men's work ? It was bad enough for young girls to go
and work in the same shop with young men, but far worse
for married women. Could not her husband get on with.
out setting his wife to work ? The husband—Her ull
(will) work. Mr. Leigh—lf I were you I should stop her ;
if she is clever at chain making, she may be clever at her
needle. The husband—She never was brought up to her
needle. The Clerk (to Mr. Leigh)—None of them are in
Rowley. (A. laugh.) Mr. Leigh thought the woman
might very soon learn the use or the needle if she would
try. She was fined Is and costs, or be committed
for three weeks. The woman said, " Then I shall be
committed."

MINOR MISERIES.—Amongst the multitude of minor
miseries there are few that so painfully annoy as the injuries
inflicted on the feet by tight or ill-fitting boots and shoes,
and not unfrequently by the neglect of the toe nails or of
incipient corns and bunions. The attention of residents or
visitors suffering from these causes is directed to the
announcement of Mr. Simms in our advertising columns.
He is the author of a practical exposition on the feet, and
his testimonials from the nobility, also Physician to Her
Majesty, medical and other gentlemen, and residents in this
neighbourhood, speak for themselves. Consulting Rooms,
36, Slater-street.—Adv.
CORNS.—Of all the minor evils which beset humanity,
and in one of its most tender parts, perhaps these small but
exquisitely painful callosities, from which the feet of but
few are free, are the worst. The daintiest foot, if encum-
bered wiih them, must, perforce, be thrust into an ugly,
because loosely-fitting shoe or boot, thus incurring the risk
of easing one part, and causing a precisely similar incon-
venience in another, while the change from the neat shoe cr
boot to its lax substitute is productive of an awkward and
inelegant gait. We fancy that any one effectually relieving
the corn-encumbered foot at a moderate charge is deserving
of, and likely to obtain, both popularity and emolument.
Mr. Sims, from Berlin, it will be seen by reference to our
advertising columns, prefers his services to relieve those
whose feet are cfflicted with these painful excresences ; anl
certainly his testimonials entitle him to that credit which
generally is a guarantee of success in a profession—a
success, we hope, he will meet with in our good borough
(36, Slater-street) of Liverpool.—. Adv.
A young woman, named Ellen Fitzgerald, is now Icing
in the University College Hospital in a very precarious
condition, from injuries received under somewhat extra-
ordinary circumstances. She was a domestic servant at a
house in Tonbridge-place, New-road. It seems that she
was suspected of, or detected in, some dishonest acts,
and as it was then late in the evening
.she
. was leoed
up in one of the top rooms for the night, it beingintended
to hand her over to the police in the morning. Upon
entering the apartment next morning she was gone ; the
window was open, and upon looking into the area, she
wasfound lying there prostrate and partially insensible..
She was conveyed without dely to the hospital, where
the medical officers found that she had sustained a fracture
of one leg, and was otherwise seriously injured. It was
evident that she bad fallen from the window, but whether
she threw herself out, accidentally overbalanced herself, or
fell in endeavouring to escape, is at present unexplained.
The affair has caused much talk and painful surmise in the
neighbourhood.