| Show tho sewing girl biard times comes to the gewing girl when the rest of the working world thought the times were easy from immemorial time she has wrought faithfully and taken ettle erua money for far it but bat when business basl basi ness nest generall geni rall rail y grows stagnant and money boney money becomes unus unusually aily ally scarcely scarce the poor sewing girl experiences as R sad ad a depression as a s it if it were a reverse in her case cage also it Is as we all know a tough time for forber her at the best she wearily stitches from morning to night to earn a pittance that will scarcely pay decent e board even though work never falls off but when men find money scarcer they buy fewer clothes and if it the wholesale business Is depressed a traction fraction she la Is told she cannot have steady work this tall fall prices have gone down too on coats tor for the southern market they are paid two shillings less than on the same garments last fall and a similar decrease effects wages for other articles of fit clothing these changes for tor the woot worst come very har hard dapen upon the girls very many of them support widowed mothers and orphaned sisters and brothers their one needle Is to earn not a living only for themselves but bread for a family coal for the house household holdy boldy and to meet beside the monthly demands of inexorable landlords ve we meet them wrapped in their thin shawls dallain dally daily in the streets looking as if their frail bodies were poorly able to tem stem 6 the tide of necessary expenses that will roll down upon any family even the smallest smailes tg that attempts to winter in new york grappling with a hard worlds trials dally daily there must bs be a curse ready to light upon his head bead w who ho without good cause deducts from their small wages cr or with contemptible meanness throws a straw in the way ot of their making the little they can make as easily ea silva aa possible but ba many merchants who employ them mrik think it no dishonor to make them come three or four times to the shop for work which was promised them at the tha first call cail ca 11 and it with eyes sharpened by liy the prospect of gain an uneven stitch can be found they baet haet bast b ast alt that they deduct largely from their wages biages shame on the fellow fellows a w who he behave so ungallantly they tawn fawn with disgusting obsequiousness to a pert miss who bears about her person the tokens of her extravagance in dress but when those hardworking hard working daughters of honest and ambitious toll aie ale ame are left to ruu run up and down the streets wasting time that Is exceedingly precious to them to get the jobs heedlessly promised to be ready many days before they excuse themselves with the remark it Is only a shop girl giri sile alle can cm come age again iny the shop girl 1 Is as worthy of her hire as any laborer and he Is shamefully dishonest who dadds adds an unnecessary step to her tedious walk to get ity ill it or scrutinizes her work more closely than he Is willing that his hl sown own should be ei ex |
