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EDINBURGH AND LEITH
L AU N D R Y
HOUSE OF MERCY, ST. CATHARINE'S CONVENT,
.4 LAURISTON GARDENS,
EDINBURGH.
SPECIAL ATTENTION.— The States at JJtecg who conduct this
Laundry — opened ten years ago, and now enjoying extensive patronage
from Families resident in Edinburgh, Schools, and Hotels — solicit further Orders.
Terms moderate. Printed Price List to be obtained by application to the
Eeverend Mother Superior at above address.
The Van collects and returns Washings in all parts
of the City and Suburbs.
NEEDLEWORK AND KNITTING ARE ALSO
DONE ON THE PREMISES.
The House of Mercy has been established to board, lodge, and train as
domestic servants, girls who have no home or proper protection. Numbers
of girls are being lost daily for want of those safeguards which a respectable
home ensures, and which are so necessary for a girl in a city like Edinburgh.
Those only who visit the very poorest and lowest localities can know the terrible
dangers and temptations by which such girls are surrounded. It is idle to
deplore the number of those who fall, and who, besides losing their own souls,
bring many others to ruin, if strenuous" efforts are not at the same time made
to avert this evil. The Sisters, therefore, confidently appeal to the charitable
for assistance in a work which, they venture to think, can have no small claim
on their sympathy and support.
Annual Subscriptions, however small, and Donations of Money, Food, or Clothes,
will be thankfully acknowledged by the Eeverend Mother Superior, who will be happy
to show Visitors over the Laundry on Thursdays and Fridays.