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Show CAU8E OF NERVOUO BREAKDOWN. Profession of Dressmaker a Toll That Kills In the End. "These are the reasons, and they only aro suggested that thousands ot our dressmakers are 111 every year with nervous prostration; that as many moro go to the wall and give up work; that none of them ever make a competence, although their work should assure it. "It Is tho general outline of the Masons Ma-sons that I, Anne Uannerman Bodge wick Hltt, at 38, am at the end of my string and have reached a parting of the ways in which I know not how to turn, or what to do next. That I, a One looking woman, as you see, with a speaking voice that onco would have gotten mo a place upon the stage, and with a hundred letters telling ot my worth and skill, can think ot nothing better to do next than to try to get a Job of demonstrating until I can get away from tho octopus ot the com poslte woman who wants clothes made. And yet I love my work, and don't know how I shall do without the long evenings, as well as days of thought and toll for which I have given up social life and recroatlon for 18 years." Exchange. |