Instructions for cutting out apparel for the poor, principally intended for the assistance of the patronesses of Sunday schools, and other charitable institutions, but useful in all families, with a preface, containing a plan for assisting the parents of poor children ... to clothe them ... Published for the benefit of the Sunday school children at Hertingfordbury.

Date:
1789
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Instructions for cutting out apparel for the poor, principally intended for the assistance of the patronesses of Sunday schools, and other charitable institutions, but useful in all families, with a preface, containing a plan for assisting the parents of poor children ... to clothe them ... Published for the benefit of the Sunday school children at Hertingfordbury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pure flour, have been negle6lecl and abfo- lutely refufed by the poor from mere igno- rance, becaufe it was not what they call “ 'ii'hite bread. So, in all probability, would this aflirtance have been rejected, if, inflead of each family being left at liberty to ])urchare from their own baker or meahnan, they had been dire6fed to buy the flour or bread of one particular baker only, which cer- tainly would have faved the Donor a great deal of trouble; for whether from whim and ca- price, or to whatever other caufe ow'ing, it is a faCf, that in the above Paiifh there are no lefs than fourteen different perfons who furniffi the refpe6live families with flour and bread: it was neceflary therefore to fend to every one of thofe perfons the notice above mentioned. But by indulging each family in the liberty to purchafe of their own tradefman, all was harmony, gratitude, and content. The great fecret of I'uccefs in thefe refpe6fs, feems to be a little attention to the particularities of the lower rank of people, and to make them feel, as little as poffible, their own dependance in the obligation you confer upon them. IN-