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Show oo COUNTRY GIRLS IN LARGE CITIES Late German statistics glvo a good Idea of how tho Increasingly largo number of country girls who go to tho larger cities from villages and small towns In Germany earn their dally bread. Tho largest number are employed In factories. There wero about 150,000 girls employed last year lln cotton mills and 52.000 In tobacco tobac-co factories. In laundries 8.300 women wo-men wero employed, of whom a large number eventually went into service as housemaids. A largo number of country girls found positions in department de-partment stores as saleswomen and rocoived an average salary of $11.28 monthly, out of which they paid all their living exponsoB. Tho most favorable working conditions condi-tions were obtained by somo 210.000 girls engaged as servants in housework. house-work. Of theso a largo numbor bo-came bo-came more Independent by taking over small stores, usually groceries o: dollcntesson shops. Thoy hope thereby to be ablo to save up enough to provide for old age. There were 107,000 or more women employed In hotels, restaurants and bars, but only a few of these came direct from tho country, having first fcpent somo time In tho city. |