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Other important and necessary industries the hatters, the shoemakers, the shirtmakers, the cravatters, the hosiers, even the makers of underwear hurried out of hiding; and soon, whoever had eyes to look could study that handsome, snappy young fellow in every stage of costume, for the soap-makers also saw their opportunity, from the bath up.
As for Marcella, it was her idiosyncrasy that these tailors, furriers, machinists, shirtmakers, by whom she was surrounded in East London, stirred her imagination far more readily than the dwellers in great houses and the wearers of fine raiment had ever stirred it. And Marcella, in the kindled sympathetic state, was always delightful to herself and others.
I mean, have you any real friends among them, whose lives you know?" "Well, I sit with Fontenoy while he receives deputations from all those tailoresses and shirtmakers and fur-sewers that you want to put in order. The harassed widow streams through his room perpetually wailing to be let alone!" Marcella made a sound of amused scorn. "Oh! you think that nothing," said George, indignant.
Of 1696 Negroes at work in Philadelphia in 1856, some of the more important occupations numbered workers as follows: tailors, dressmakers, and shirtmakers, 615; barbers, 248; shoemakers, 66; brickmakers, 53; carpenters, 49; milliners, 45; tanners, 24; cake-bakers, pastry-cooks, or confectioners, 22; blacksmiths, 22.
But the shirtmakers' lot is the worst. They receive for an ordinary shirt 1.5d., formerly 2d.-3d.; but since the workhouse of St. Pancras, which is administered by a Radical board of guardians, began to undertake work at 1.5d., the poor women outside have been compelled to do the same. For fine, fancy shirts, which can be made in one day of eighteen hours, 6d. is paid.
A hard, reluctant tear rose in his eyes. Is it starved tailoresses and shirtmakers alone who suffer? Is there no hunger of the heart, that matches and overweighs the physical? Is it not as easy for the rich as the poor to miss the one thing needful, the one thing that matters and saves? Angrily, and in a kind of protest, he put out his hand, as it were, to claim his own share of the common pain.
But I go because I love the people, and to talk with them and live with them part of every week keeps one's mind clear as to what one wants, and why. Well," her voice showed that she smiled, "will you come? My old maid shall give you coffee, and you shall meet a roomful of tailors and shirtmakers.
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