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 RELIGION 128 Others learn dressmaking, spinning, weaving, bootmaking, cooking, laundry and house work ; others work on the farm and learn dairy 'work, the care of animals, fowls, and flowers. In addition they make the material for their own clothing. The establishment consists of five hundred persons, and all the food required is produced on the spot. Electricity, moreover, for lighting the convent is generated on the premises. All the work involved in attending to these matters is performed by the inmates. When educated, the deaf and dumb girls and women return home, if they have homes. If not, their fate is sad indeed, because when they leave the convent as dressmakers, weavers, or lacemakers their lives are very lonely, for few, if any, are able to hold converse with them by signs. A HOME FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB After a time, therefore, it is only natural that they should want to return to the convent. This, however, lack of accommodation makes impossible. A great object of the nuns, therefore, is to build a self-supporting home where these poor creatures can come when they are unable to obtain work outside. All that is required is the money for the building, since there are enough workers to make it self-supporting. Owing to the want of such a home, many deaf mutes who have left the convent well educated have forgotten all they learned, and their lives have ended in misery. When the late Queen Victoria paid her last visit to Ireland, she was accompanied by their Royal Highnesses Princess Christian of Schleswig- Holstein, Princess Henry of Battenberg, the Queen of Spain — then a child — and the Princes Leopold and Maurice of Battenberg. The princesses and princes visited Cabra, ac- companied by the Earl of Denbigh, and were so delighted with it that the}^ went a second time, and expressed great interest and pleasure in all they saw. Little Boys' School St. Mary's Dominican Convent CONVENTS IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WESTMINSTER Convent of Notre-Dame, 55, Tollington Park, London, N. Address : The Rev. Mother Superior. Convent of the Daughters of the Cross, Cale Street, Chelsea. S.W. Address : The Superioress. Convent of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 212, Hammersmith Road, London, W. Address : Rev. Mother Superior. St. Mary's Convent of the English Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, England's Lane, Hampstead, London, N.W. Convent of the Sacred Heart, Wals worth Road, Hitchen, Herts. Address : Rev. Mother Superior. Convent of St. Mary, Windhill, Bishop's Stort- ford. ^ Convent of Jesus and Mary, Willesden, London. N.W. Convent of Jesus and Mary, 28, Park Avenue, Cricklewood, N.W. Address : Rev. Mother. La Sagesse Convent of Our Lady, Golder's Green, London, N.W. Address : Rev. Mother. Convent of the Assumption, 23, Kensington Square, London, W. Address : Rev. Mother. Marist Convent, St. Peter's Lodge, 596, Fulham Road, London, S.W. Address : Rev. Mother, or Rt. Rev. Dr. Fenton. Convent of the Immaculate Conception, Wood- ford, Essex. Address : Mother Superior. St. Clare's College, Clacton-on-Sea. Address : The Rev. Mother. Convent of Jesus and Mary, Saffron Walden, Essex. Ursuline Convent, Brentwood, Essex. Address : Rev. Mother. Ursuline Convent, Upton, Forest Gate, Essex. Address : Rev. Mother. The Convent, Grey Friars, Colchester, Essex. St. Michael's Convent, The Grange, North Finchley. Address : The Superioress. St. Dominic's Convent, Harrow-on-the-Hill. Address : The Prioress. St. Dominic's Convent, i, Mutrix Road, Kilburnj London, N.W. Convent of Our Lady of Sion, Chepstow Villas, London, W. ; and i, New West End, Hamp- stead, N. Convent of Notre Dame de Sion, Eden Grove, Holloway, N. Address : Rev. Mother Superior. Religious of the Society of Marie Reparatrice, Tower House, Chiswick, W. Address : The Superior. Convent of the Holy Child Jesus, 11, 12, and 13, Cavendish Square, London. W. Address : Rev. Mother. To be contimied in Part 2 of Every Woman's Encyclopaedia. The lists published will form a complete directory of convents.