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Updated: May 4, 2025
The most heartrending feature of it all in these homes of the mothers who work at night is the expression in the faces of the children; children of chance, dressed in rags, undernourished, underclothed, all predisposed to the ravages of chronic and epidemic disease.
Women, underclothed and overpainted, leaned from the upper windows and made frequent sallies into the street to capture their prey. Loud voices sang lusty English choruses and French chansonnettes, and Neapolitan songs tried to assert themselves whenever the uproar ceased for a moment. Every one talked his, or her, own tongue, and gesture filled in the gaps when words were wanting.
Unluckily there still prevails a very old-fashioned tendency to treat the front fence as in itself ornamental and to forget two things: First, that its nakedness is no part of its ornamental value; that it would be much handsomer lightly clothed underclothed like, probably, its very next neighbor; clothed with a hedge, either close or loose, and generously kept below the passer's line of sight.
He would have fainted unobtrusively, for the first time in his life. Kedzie was scared. She had stage-fright of all these great people so overdressed when she was not even underclothed. "Poor little thing!" said Charity, and began to applaud to cheer her up. She nudged Jim. "Come on, help her out. Isn't she beautiful?" "Is she?" said Jim, applauding.
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