Show GIRLS WORK IN A MINE A reprehensible introduction of 1 fore ign customs CiL stoma on american amerian soil sell four ath athletic leVic young oung girls find daily employment at a small coal mine in in the mahoning Ma honing valley valey several miles from shamokin Sha says the atlanta Cons titu tion the colliery Is owned and operated by joseph mins mans a hard work ing german who says sa s he has simply in introduced trod the custom of his fatherland in having his four daughters assist him in preparing the fuel tor for market the girls are alx six footers good looking and aad well 11 ell formed each tipping the scales at about pounds kate aged 20 years has charge of the breakers annie aged 16 runs its mine pumps and breaker engines like a veteran engineer lizzie aged 18 drives a mule attached to a gin for the purpose 0 of f hoisting the coal from the slope and mary aged 19 sees that the slate is is picked from the coal by her little brothers whom she helps in the work w ork the girls ve wear short skirts not bloomers as might be supposed mans formerly worked in in the mines at shamokin Sha but during the last 12 years with the assistance of his wife who runs the farm and their daughters it at the mine he has managed to buy this coal mine and a large amount of timber land besides |