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Updated: May 31, 2025
In these and other trades of the lowest order, 6s. a week is a tolerably common wage for a work-woman of fair skill to net after a hard week's work, and there are many individual cases where the wage falls far below this mark.
Twenty-four minutes' work ought to buy a spool of thread at the retail price, if the American work-woman were allowed to exchange her labor for thread on the best terms that the art and commerce of today would allow; but after she has done twenty-four minutes' work for the thread she is forced by the laws of her country to go back and work sixteen minutes longer to pay the tax that is, to support the thread-mill.
Scraps of costly Indian chintzes and palempours were intermixed with commoner black and red calico in minute hexagons; and the variety of patterns served for the useful purpose of promoting conversation as well as the more obvious one of displaying the work-woman 's taste.
I am the overseer of the room, as you know, and must in any case remain here till the last work-woman has gone." Selene felt full well that she ought to be grateful for the kindness shown her by these two women, and yet she had a sense of having a deed of almsgiving forced upon her acceptance, and she answered quickly, still with the blood mounting to her cheeks.
Her means are exhausted in elegant fancies, or have been taken away by some unexpected misfortune, and now she has fallen from luxury to indigence. While the work-woman manages not only to keep her little room, but also to furnish it with decent comfort by her steady toil, that of the singer is become the property of brokers.
Her helpers sat in little circles on the ground; in the midst of each lay a great heap of fresh and dry plants, and in front of each work-woman a number of parcels of the selected roots, leaves, and flowers. An old physician presided over the whole, and had shown Nefert the first day the particular plants which he needed.
He was an American he stated, and had been sent to me by the woman for whom I worked. Having need of a skilled Parisian work-woman, he came to propose to me to follow him to New York, where he would insure me a brilliant position. "But I knew several poor girls, who, on the faith of dazzling promises, had expatriated themselves.
Her helpers sat in little circles on the ground; in the midst of each lay a great heap of fresh and dry plants, and in front of each work-woman a number of parcels of the selected roots, leaves, and flowers. An old physician presided over the whole, and had shown Nefert the first day the particular plants which he needed.
Now that I am no longer uneasy about my mother, what signifies prison?" "And the grief that your mother will feel, her uneasiness, and her fears, nothing? Think of your father; and that poor work-woman who loves you as a brother, and whom I value as a sister; say, sir, do you forget them also? Believe me, it is better to spare those torments to your family.
The milliner who was not morose or hard-hearted, only newly insolvent was touched, took her in hand with goodwill, found her the most patient and earnest of pupils, and made her a cunning work-woman in course of time. In course of time, and in the very self-same course of time, the Father of the Marshalsea gradually developed a new flower of character.
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