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Show A BURNING QUESTION. About seventy thousand immigrants from Europe Eu-rope are landing in New York every month. A good many people think they are coming too fast, that the assimilative capacity of this country is about to be overtaxed. But in one direction at least there is no danger. Supposing that half who come are children, and that 10 per cent of all the comers are independent, we have left something some-thing over thirty thousand who want work. If half these are females then there ought to be about fifteen thousand young women seeking employment. em-ployment. There are six million homes in this country and about five million of these each want from one to three young women to cook, make beds, dust, and once every year or two, wash a window. If there aro fifteen thousand of these a month and the rush continues, it will "mean one hundred and eighty thousand a year. At this rate it will require about thirty years to meet the demand. de-mand. When we reflect that half the comers are not worth 30 cents an acre the prospect is a little discouraging, but we must hope for the best.1 Much deserved praise is just now being bestowed' upon Senator Clark and associates because of a prospect of a coming railroad. But that appre-preclatlon appre-preclatlon is nothing to what would be the appreciation ap-preciation of the man or woman who would bring here five hundred girls willing to do house work, Avilllng to do It cheerfully, and capable of 'boiling water without burning it. |