White Slaves; Or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor
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Being a very rugged woman physically, she is able to do tliis. If she had been frail and delicate, with a young- babe, she would have been compelled to keep on finishing pants at ten cents a pair. It is hot and dirt}'' here everywhere. How could it be otherwise? Every one of these housekeepers must have a fire in her room every time she wants hot water for washing or any other purpose. Take the day of my visit, — one of the hottest in June ; it is ninety de- grees in the shade, but with the fir...e in the rickety stove in the room in which this mother and her little girl are working, it cannot be less than a hundred and thirty. But the fire can- not go out, or the washing will stop, and there will be no food to-morrow. For these two mis- erable sweat-boxes — the paper half torn off, bed-bug dens that nothing could thoroughly cleanse except a fire that would exterminate 160 WHITE SLAVES the very walls — she pays two dollars and a half per week. As a striking illustration of the good results of agitation on these subjects, I called at this house during the past week, AK AJfClENT TJiNKJIENT.
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