Sydney, Lady Morgan

So there is progress, but also it does reflect the people at the time did know this was wrong.

i came across a a letter written by a lady morgan she's sydney owenson she's a philanthropist there she's a champion of women's rights she's an author and she she championed women's rights servants girls serving girls and particularly yeah she's interested in the plight of these children and sweeps so you had then some people came together then in After that case that I mentioned where the balcony collapsed and that James Cullen was whipped from, you know, he sentenced and whipped from Newgate.

People came together and they actually tried to form a little sweep school It was called Kellett's School for Young Sweeps.

It was just a Sunday school, but it gave the kids, these kids, respite from maybe 40 kids to go in on a Sunday.

So they kind of suggest that kids were Catholic and poor and very great Protestant kids climbing chimneys.

But it catered for about 40 children, and it didn't last too long because of that.

Lady Morgan, she wrote constantly to the newspapers and documenting the plight of these kids.

So you see, that's this kind of realization that there's a bit of reform happening.

By pains only shalt thou taste pleasure, is the law which no mortal can evade.

Footnote Lady Morgan, in a little work entitled The Boudoir, mentions her surprise when a very young girl at finding an English duchess, whom she had visited a little too early with hammer and nails in her hands, ascending a ladder to fasten up some classic wreaths which were to ornament her rooms for the evening.

Many attendants were about her, but none of them had sufficient understanding to relieve her of a task so irksome.

End of note A planter in the midst of five hundred sable vassals must either toil almost as severely as either of them, or derive little benefit from their assistance.

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The Book of Cats by Charles Henry Ross.

Chapter 3.

His followers in this place ever afterwards paid a great respect to cats, and supported the hospital in question by public subscriptions with much liberality.

When the Duke of Norfolk was committed to the Tower in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, a favorite cat made her way into the prison room by getting down the chimney.

The first day, says Lady Morgan in her delightful book, we had the honor of dining at the palace of the Archbishop of Toronto at Naples, he said to me, You must pardon my passion for cats, but I never exclude them from my dining room, and you will find they make excellent company.

Between the first and second course the door opened, and several enormously large and beautiful Angora cats were introduced by the names of Pantalone, Desdemona, Othello, etc.