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Show Crushed by Modern Conditions. Of all the modern world's strongholds strong-holds of machine-driven labor none can compare with Belfast and Glasgow to emphasize the truth of Ruskin's denunciation de-nunciation of modern industrialism. Ugliness and monotony are here the keynotes of life great barracklike buildings, where the workers toil eternally in their day and night shifts; long rows of sordid cottages, smoke begrimed and hideous, where, in their long hours of ease, the men converge upon the corner saloons as their chiel recreation and solace, while the women wom-en pursue their truant offspring in all manner of unsavory haunts. One ol the commonest and saddest sights ol Belfast's mean streets after work hours is a street corner group of girls from ten to twelve years of age, each carrying her younger brother or sister sis-ter tightly fastened to her by the ubiquitous shawl. Small wonder thai under such conditions the mill hand woman has hardened, that her features fea-tures and her manners have lost the gentleness and grace that should be f Roman's birthright. |