Show Where Are the Yankee Girls In one of the latest bulletins of the Census Bureau Mr Edward Atkinson says in an article on the specific cotton manufactures of the country I find by comparison of the actual accounts of leading factories which have been submitted to me that in the period which has elapsed since 1840 when nearly all the operatives oi New England were of American birthmostly daughters of farmersthe following changes have occurred Most of the opera lives are now of foreign birth notably French Canadians who form a thrifty and progressive element of our population popul-ation as the children become educated educat-ed in the schools In connection with this same subject Mr Atkinson remarks that the mills are now better lighted and ventilated than ever before be-fore the hours of labor less and the condition of the works lees arduous The disappearance of the young women of New England from the notion factories is a curious economic fact FrenchCanadian girls have taken their places but where are the Yankee girls Evidently they have sought and successfully a higher and a more remunerative field of labor In the last twenty years thousands ot new industries have sprung up demanding a high degree of intelligence and skill The Yankee girl evidently has evolufed into these new departments of industry leaving to the FrenchCanadian girl a monopoly of the field they formerly occupied Mr Atkinson philosophically philosophi-cally observes Each decade offers He own problem and eaoh generation shapes its own condition therefore unless he who considers statistics can obdferva what is recorded between the line although unwritten he may deceive himself and mislead others New York Herald |