INDUSTRIOUS WOMEN FOR CANADA.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."]
Sin,—The sympathy of Great Britain for her Colonies has lately been so strongly marked that I trust you may deem the present a favourable moment for reminding the public of the need so urgently expressed by Canada for a supply of respectable, industrious women. All kinds of competent women are asked for, and the Association to which I belong has built up a very perfect organisation for the assistance of those who wish to go. It can put shopgirls, seamstresses, laundresses, nurses, and servants in the way of good work. It can also dispose of children who are orphaned or abandoned. But it is to the opportunities offered to the more educated class that we now specially invite attention. There is a train- ing school at Leaton, Salop, where ladies of the teaching class can be trained in all household work. No encourage- ment is given to any to go who cannot personally fulfil all these indispensable duties. Many half-starved teachers have thus become efficient companion-helps, and are now in happy positions. Our Association is well known in Canada owing to the kind intervention of General Laurie, now M.P. for Swansea, who introduced it to the notice of the Dominion Parliament, which issued twenty thousand circulars through. out Canada, recommending it as a trustworthy organisation..
—I am, Sir, Ste., JANE STUART WORTLEY, President, United British Women's Emigration Association, Imperial Institute, London, S.W.-
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