PRESENT AND FUTURE.
At the first glance, and even when longer survey has been made, both Paris and Berlin,–and these may stand as the representative Continental cities,–seem to offer every possible facility for the work of women. Everywhere, behind counter, in shop or café, in the markets, on the streets, wherever it is a question of […]
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FROM FRANCE TO ITALY.
In Paris, its fulness of brilliant life so dominates that all shadows seem to fly before it and poverty and pain to have no place, and the same feeling holds for the chief cities of the continent. It is Paris that is the key-note of social life, and in less degree its […]
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IN THE RUE JEANNE D’ARC.
“No, madame, unless one has genius or much money in the beginning, it is only possible to live, and sometimes one believes that it is not living. If it were not that all in Paris is so beautiful, how would I have borne much that I have known? But always, when […]
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A SILK-WEAVER OF PARIS.
“No, madame, there is no more any old Paris. The Paris that I remember is gone, all gone, save here and there a corner that soon they will pull down as all the rest. All changes, manners no less than these streets that I know not in their new dress, and where […]
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FRENCH COUTURE - DRESSMAKERS AND MILLINERS IN PARIS.
“If a revolution come again, I think well, madame, it will be the great shops that will fall, and that it is workwomen who will bear the torch and even consent to the name of terror, pétroleuses. For see a moment what thing they do, madame. Everywhere, the […]
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THE CITY OF THE SUN.
It is only with weeks of experience that the searcher into the under world of Paris life comes to any sense of real conditions, or discovers in what directions to look for the misery which seldom floats to the surface, and which even wears the face of content. That there are […]
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FRENCH BARGAIN COUNTERS.
“Yes, it is the great shops that have done that, madame. Once, you saw what was only well finished and a credit to the worker, and, even if the reward was small, she had pride in the work and her own skill, and did always her best. But now, what will you? The […]
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FRENCH AND ENGLISH WORKERS.
It is but a narrow streak of silver main that separates the two countries, whose story has been that of constant mutual distrust, varied by intervals of armed truce, in which each nation elected to believe that it understood the other. Not only the nation as a whole, however, but the worker […]
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WOMEN IN GENERAL TRADES.
As investigation progresses, it becomes at times a question as to which of two great factors must dominate the present status of women as workers; competition, which blinds the eyes to anything but the surest way of obtaining the proper per cent, or the inherited Anglo-Saxon brutality, which, in its lowest form […]
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FROM COVENT GARDEN TO THE EEL-SOUP MAN IN THE BOROUGH.
Now and then, in the long search into the underlying causes of effects which are plain to all men’s eyes, one pauses till the rush of impressions has ceased, and it is possible again to ignore this many-sided, demanding London, which makes a claim unknown to […]
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