| Show LITTLE WORKERS the swiss Lace makers and the product of their toll I 1 every little toddler in SwIt switzerland zet says a must earn its living us its soon noon as it can lisp hip its own name either in some work or in taking care of one younger than itself all along alone the roadside through the valleys tire are little board shelters where when on shelves thus thua protected wood carvings and swiss swing lace tire are offered for sale ale or a little I 1 I 1 cala bright llinge t tended by some child 11 14 to be ba see seen for ft a low few centimes cen times to he be added to the store which Is to keep keel eliesa poo peo pie from starvation during the winter for which they must I 1 ook look out with care under one of these sheds today to day 1 I saw two little girls who had it in charge and stopped to speak with them both were lace their little lingers fingers flying dying so BO that I 1 could hardly see them as they handled the bobbins an any y more than the spokes jofs of a wheel in full motion ino tiou and the iha smallest of these children was no larger then than are at our country though v I 1 ahe lie told me she was R 6 N when I 1 pat abe ds land t led ed the he eitt little bead a and ex expressed 0 that such a little ablog should be able to maker lace face so nice lyt ly the older sister told mo me wi with th loving pride that anna had bad earned liar bar own living by lace working already for two years they begged we me to buy the piece I 1 saw her ber makini making for there are five of us they said two younger than we tire arc and we aru are selar arms tres gauvre very poor they said trying in three languages to make me comprehend the situation and induce me to buy doth both could read and write they told me and where la Is your mother I 1 asked she was in tire the field and their father was a 11 trager 1 e one who stays s about the hotels aud and gets geta any job that comes to hand band of parrying carrying people afraid or unable to gt go up the mountains its on horseback or on mules up I 1 la a a chair set upon a litter borne born up by two no such for exactly tile the same price as Is paid fur for a borse hor seand and the one man who leads him up wi with tit the roan man or woman on his hid back baal or a arager 61 trager carries up their iru 11 upon 11 1 his bis shoulders while the they bus 1211 ride up p borne by other trailers ij the slaters sisters begged me to buy bay assur ing ine me again that they were very poor they wanted to got some breakfast bre breakfast alfAst they said maid arid and have you had bad no breakfast yet I 1 asked for it was now past 12 they said very little tb ibe mother could not give them any tills this morning she must go to the flail field the older seemed mother like most anxious that thai the little one should make a sale of her lace though little anna said you see BCD hers Is nicer than mine for sho she la Is old older eryou i ou see bee and add can malre much nicer luce hice th than a I 1 can of course my lady it Is better that you ou buy hers than mine 1 I I 1 thought of wor Word da idyl izeare we are seven tho the beauty of their kindness and love for each other la in their poverty if not of face or orfea feature tare mada imada me glad both were laffely neat nea face and han hands als and h hair air this was also neat ly combed thare were wera no bangs falling failing over their foreheads but every hair was dra drawn wn biuk back and fastened as though not it stray astray hair should blind their eyes or hinder them in their work we drove back through this valley and the be sun had bad long been out of sight eight behind the high western mountains when wo pa sied their little stall but both bath were there still at work their little fingers augers hying flying no nimbly than in the morning when I 1 first saw them they recognized bied and gratefully for the poor small purchase I 1 had made of them I 1 date may any it wan wae the HIB only sale they he had made during the day dear tie ile sw swiss iss lace makers in the valley of Youg you give averne mo far more than ban I 1 lid did you OU in the few francs I 1 paid for your lour lace ace detroit tribune |
