AN ENGLISH WOMAN'S WORK FOR IRELAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIV, Issue 43, 18 February 1887, Page 13

AN ENGLISH WOMAN'S WORK FOR IRELAND

Mrs. ALICE M. Hart, whose description of the Iri"h Cot'age Industries which she has revived and deve'oped, has already been given in the Pilot, is the wife Dr. Ernest Hart, of the London Linctt, She is an Englishwoman, of unusual mental breadth, sense of justice, and quick sympathy. She is a marvel of erergy and business tact. She has grasped the Irish question in all its bearings. She understands and appreciates the Irish peasantry. It is almost needless to add tbat she is a warm advocate of Home Rule for Ireland. "We English, '' she wntes, "not only owe her justice, but a large generosity. If she can ever forgive us, and ever love us again, it depends on us ho'ding out heartily the nsjht hand of fellowship. . . . Perhaps (.Sorts like thar in which lam privileged to take part mav,if cordially supported by the English, do something to heal the sorrows of a long-suffeiing p2ople.''

Dr Hart his furnished the money foi his wife's noble enterprise. Bishop Logue and his priests are actively co operating wi h her in her labours for then people. Mie ha^ opened depo r » m Ljndon, Dublin, etc., for the sale of the i;ooJ.« manufactured. Und.-r her sm>irvisi O n, the woik has attained gieat perfection and its money Jesuits are the mainstay of many a poor home. Bin thousands of workeis are still entreating training and employment.

We trust our Boston readeis will soon s->e for themselves these splendid Kells embroideries. Irish laces-, damasks, poplin, hand-knit and hand-woven goods, eic, which are now delighting the people of New York, and which Mrs. Hart hopes to have exhibited heie also These exhibitions in the great cities of the United States, by increasing the demand for the goods, will enable Mrs. Hart to widen the scope of her benevolent woik. She has established her scheme on a sound self-supporting basis, and will make the business one of r>rc fit-sharing Sne is eag.-rly anticipating the day when she shall go to Ireland on the pleasi' t mission of distributing th bonuses of profit amonjj her lush workers. It is for us Irish in Amenca to hasten that day.— Pilot.