Show A grave problem lem epoch the sun has just been malting making an exhaustive inquiry jinto the condition of some female workers in new ew york and this is tho the melancholy co conclusion n which it readies reaches tho the sewing women of this city do tie skilled labor for fifteen hours a day for so little pay that they must accept charity or starve we hear bear so much glib talk about the pauper labor of europe and are treated to so many campara tire ve tables she ing the great superiority of american that such a dictum ae as this will probably como come with the force of a revelation to the majority of readers but anyone at all familiar with ith those who lie obtain aid from the numerous chari charitable ta bl a or of this city vi will ill recognize lie its truth nor does the dan danger daner er to society c 1 ety end with the pauperization pauperisation of eo so large urge a body of worl working wor Kini tine women the tenement houses in which they are herded are nesta nests of cont contagion na and nd no proper precautions are taken to prevent the work which they do there from carrying can ring with it the seede of pestilence ti the problem is a grave gray 0 one perhaps the gravest that ili the foremost manufacturing city in the to union has to fice face and it is a service of no small valne avalne to have its character thus clearly and truthfully set forth |