The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-10-19

: moral and social status of the workers
engaged in sucn occupations by impart-
ing to them technical education in all
branches of their business and Obtain
ing market for their work and saw
ing for them the profits derived from
it's sale"
A good deal of expense had to be in
CURED at the outset but influential
support was received from the first
The nuns of Loretto Convent gave a
site in their grounds for Workroonl
and a building, which was conVerteu
into a very coTnnodious one, and fur-
ther allowed one of their number to be-
come manager and secretary to the So
Ciety, shares in which were taken by
its supporters and a cooperative So
ciety formed.
To Lady Aberdeen is due the idea OF
reviving the ancient gold embrolderles
of Ireland, work now d speciality OF Lo-
retto Convent. and it is to the orders
| she has placed for execution here that
it has first been brought before the
public.
The department of ecclesiastical en-
! broidery has attained great perfectloh'
the work done for churches at home De
ing recognized as equal to anything I'M
| ported from the workshops of France
and Italy The high mass sets of vest
ments, worked in gold ON clotn OF sll
YER have been acknowledged as at
least equal in material and artlStlc
workmanship to Italian and French
vestments, for which much higher
prices are charged. This work exc1ted
great admiration at the Textile Fxni-
btion in Dublin in 1897, and, indeed,
wherever shown, and it has won prizes
at Dublin horse show. OF course. there
are other applications besides churcn
work for these embroiderieS-ladle
dresses, screens, curtains, cushions, etc
The London Shirt company, Sloane
Square, gave their contract for summer
blouSegS for two years to this society.
Much of the underlinen for the trous-
seau of Lady Peggy Primrose, who was
married to the Earl of Crewe, was exc
cuted here: also no less than fourteen
dozen various articles for the trousseau
of Princess Marie of Mecklenburg,
whose late marriage to Count Jametel
was the subject of so much comment.
INSTRUCTING THE WORKERS.
The girls employed in the convent |
worlroons (there are twenty-five now, |
with room for five or six n1ore) go |
through a complete course of plain |
needlewoTk first, and during that time |
a complete course also of geometr1cal |
and freehand drawing, which there are !
nuns in the convent qualified to give.
Until they have passed the Kenstngton
eXaminatiOns-and some of the girls
have passed the first-class examina-
tions-they are placed with those who
exhibit particular aptitude and are
also taught designing. The wages of
the girls vary, of course, in proportion
to the quality of the work done, some
beginning at Is. Cd. or 2s a week, being
able in course of time to earn 25s.
weekly.
The shares are 81 each. paid thus:
Five shillings on application and the
remainder in such calls as the commit
tee of the society may from time to
time direct, at least fourteen days no
tice being given at each call. Eight of
the workers are members and two of
their number are on the committee of
manag cement.
The profits arising from the business
Of the society, after providing for
charges specified, pay 3 per cent on
all paid up share capital, the remainder
Of profits being then divided among
The workers, in the society in proper
ion to the wages earned by each.