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Show Ycncincii!; Uoune Women. A eenus of lectures for working women is bein .;iven in the, hall of the Working Work-ing Women's society. The topic of the lecture iriven by Dr. Annie S. Daniels was ''Working Women in Tenement Hi discs. " Hie save ponio intcrcfitinsf facts. "Women who take their work home and do it in the tenement houses work from fourteen to twenty hours. On an avcr-ice avcr-ice they wot'K eighteen. In the ina'dii"; of artificial llowers they cam frmn four dollars to six dollars a- week. They make Si raw saiior hats, put in the lining, fasten tin; band and bow or buttons for forty cents down. The average waes fit this work is three dollars. On rare oc-ce-ions it rises to iix dollars. Kvery chili! over twelve is sent to the inercan-tihi inercan-tihi e? tabliilimeiits. Those under that n.; as.vist at home. "They exist in two or three rooms, for which they pay from four dollars a 1:10m h for m single room to twelve dollars dol-lars for two or three, always in advance. "In many cases water is attainable only after J J at ni!"ht and before ti in tlis ! inoniiiirf. For breakfast she Uis black j coiloo and bread; for dinner she has j bread and coffee; for supper she lias the ' name, with tho addition of a lit do soup. : In tiie meantime fho has beer. It takes four hours to digest a glass of beer. A woman who drinks it know ; that for four hours she can continue work without moving. Out of eiery twenty of these very poor only 6.9 of them are destitute because of shiftless- ' Hess. Hniuc eke out their living by taking boarders: ni'-re receive charily. .Much . is fi ven iu charily that should lie given in wa-es." At't'-r the lecture the momliers dis cussed fan remedy for this condition, j fs,,me were, in favor of enforcing the proa- : cut laws, other 8 i-ested tlie aidlation i of a ( oii-titiilional convention, having i tin; i'o::v;itu;ioii so inueinled t'nat la.vs ; j-overicf,' tlieso cases could bo made. New York il-xonler. j |
