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    410 ACADEMY OF LYONS,

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    " Mrs* Jameson Presents Her Compliments ...

    peti shall " t 2 rep ndl lace y , to those open , and new emp the loyments _careers change to in necessaril women manners , and y and taken procure customs from for . " them them b work y the which

    com" best "A paper gold on meda the l , proposed of the value theme of . 1 , 200 fr ., will "be decreed to the of l 1859

    " The papers must be sent in before the 30 th Apri , ,. without NB fail —A . more licit programme will be given to those

    competitors " . who . ask it exp from M . le Docteur Fraisse _, General Secretary of the Class of Literature at the Palais-des-Arts .

    "General Conditions . themselves " The competitors knowndirec are tly forbidden or indirec , t ly , before pain o _jiid f exc gmen lusion t is , to awarded mate

    marked by General ote the containing Academy a Secre t the taries . t t op , Their name by of the papers devic dwelling Academy e must , or and a be . sent qualit Each tto , , post repea y manuscri of free ted the , author to on pt one a , sealed of t the be

    n o ( 73 pened " rd Unless A on rticl the b e y for obtaining a formal the gov , ernm consen b , withdrawn y the ent t of on thor the , Ms , under Academy of part the , this prize ) . note pretext for In any competition can case by onl , y the the be ,

    manuscri author " The , who proposed pt must can take not prize a be copy will be if he decreed desires in . the any public session of the Academy following the private sitting of the Examining Board .

    " The President of the Academy , The General Secretaries , " Rotjgier . A . _BnsTEAu , Ch . Fraisse .

    "Lyons , May 18 th , 1858 . " To these papers the we kindness affix a translation of of an article For in the the transla Siecle _*

    also sent to us by Mrs . Jameson . - tions we are alone responsible . THE WAGES OF WOMEN .

    just The op Academy ened for of competition Lyons ( Section a call question the of Arts attention of and the Belles hi of ghest the -Lettres public interest ) has , to

    whichwe cannot too urgently , mor The e , par Academy ticularly that gives of a thinkers prize of and 1 writers , 200 fr . ., of which , it thus

    determines the assignment : — ¦ " To investigate , above all from master the manufacturers moral point of and view , and tindi to indica iduals te

    what to governors would * , be adminis the "best tra means tors , , the most practical measures , priva , — v , " 1 stto raise the wages of women to the same level as those of men ,

    where the , same amount of service is rendered or labor performed ;

    410 Academy Of Lyons,

    410 ACADEMY OF LYONS ,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 410, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/50/