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Show Labor of Almost Every Line in Germany Performed by Female Workers. DO BETTER WORK Skilled Work at Factories Passes Out cf Men's Hands ' Style of Dress Changed. ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Oct. 19. (Correspondence of tho Associated Press.) The German empire, to some extent, has become dependent upon 1 women's labor, declares a German cor- j ' respondent of the Nieuwe Rotterdam Courant. In the hospitals, at railroad I stations, in shopj and in offices, even in tho most responsible positions, the work Is principally done by women. In even first-class restaurants girta and women have replaced the waiters. The traveller who enters a hotel encounters a porter in long skirts, who carries out his behests as quickly as before. Street traffic is largely in the hands of the women. Women conductors, drivers and inspectors are dressed in the uniform uni-form of their male colleagues but with skirt or bloomers. Passengers meet with better treatment treat-ment than waB the case with the male staff. On the railroads women aro serving in booking offices, ao guards on the trains, or porters. Letters and tele-I tele-I grams are delivered by women and girls. Most of the few automobiles aro driven by women. But the main work of women is In the factories. The skilled work has now more and more passed Into their hands, as well as tho carrying of heavy loads. At the turning bench, at the furnaces, everywhere they are met with. Their wages at 7 or 8 uiarks a day aro equal to men's earning for like labor. They work In blue smock frock and bloomers with a sort of sailor'?; pan nr olntVi nn tVmlr Vionrla with black hands and rolled-up sleeves, and in the meal hour they are more and more to be seen in the street, oven with bare legs, for stockings are a superfluity ln factories, at the furnaces furnac-es and suchlike occupations. The results of women's work in the mining industry are termed very satisfactory. satis-factory. The sorting of sweepings, old iron and brass, the unloading of freight cars, is performed by woman's hands and arms, and a newcomer is amazed at the way In which she clambers about and lifts and shoulders loads. In agriculture women have always supplied auxiliary labor, but now also do the heavy work like mowing, plowing plow-ing and threshing. Dress has naturally been brought into in-to accord with the new work. On the railroads, and partly on the street cars, skirts have been replaced by bloomers and gaiters, and beribboned and feathered feath-ered hat or cap or headcloth. But there is a sailor's collar for the uniform uni-form jacket, and a flower in the button hole; the jacket is open at the neck, the cap Is worn in slanting fashion, a watchchain is fastened on the breast, a bit of lace adorns the sleeves. |
