The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-06-16

have to work twelve or fourteen hour
day for her board. Size could hay,
got into a basement kitchen. bnt tn
! speaker said she advised her not to @
as they are very unhealthy, receivin,
all the bad malarious air from the Gel
lar. She ;lIen took her yonng frien,
around to several places to get her
situation as q servant in q good plae.
bnt the answer returned was, ] prefe
Irish or cnlnred girls, Some Of the la.
dies, IN the town told a friend of mine
said Mrs. T., that they could not TAX,
q real decent, good -louking, intelligent
girl in their Houses on account Of tieii
husbands, l have known womer
whose flesh on the lower, limbs has
rotted Off consequences of the grea,
amount Outstanding in tho factories
and never knew a factory girl whs
was able to- rear a healthy faulty
Those who work for a few years are
tnmed. | would not advise any girl
to go int0sa cotton factory and worl;
eleven hours a day. They might as
well commit suicide at once There
are tnO many girls in Boston. III a girl
is learned she can become teacher,
but then she only receives one. q quarter
what the men get. lf,she is handsome
and attractive, she can go on the stage.
A young friend of mine took that
'canrse.and she got 81 n week. but
managers look upon them I'LL as eirlsof
itlieit0wn.a Il la ~, sa8 =
19a4 curriNs Doww: afia9iii f
Mrs. Rogers, an old woman, said /,
When ask a price they always c,,t me
down. Every piece of work that do
they cnt ME dnwn. The other day /
rieced a dress all over. ] asked fifty
cents and they cut me down to twenty
five. 1have to work till twelve and
one o'clock to make my living, and
then haze to go some days with only
biscuit a day for the sake of having a
home Of my own. / like itanuch bet
ter to have home. did once have
a good home-sixteen years ago-and
conld give away, but now this is
changed.
Mrs. Biglow--Latlies Will have a
home when the mighty moncyed power
is overtlrown. [Applause.]
SHIRTS MADE FOR SIX AND A QUARTER
CENTS.
Mrs. Ellis, a middled-aged lady,
next spoke. She SAID The question
has been asked, what 90 the women
expect to do to obtain tlese little
homesf The person who asked it did
not know the wants and feelings OF the
poor workingwomen, that they toll all
day and all night and barely enough Ia
keep the breath of life in them. I am
n workingwnman, and have gathered
some facts not only in regard to my
own case, but to the cases Of others
who toll from dawn of day until the
midnight honr. have toiled in this
way for twenty-five cents a day,
and hardly stopped to put a morscl into
my mouth. One woman told me to-day
that she made shirts for six cents and
Il quarter apiece, and she has sick
husband who can, do nothing, and
three or four little children. Is the
time not come when. these poor women
shall stand up and assert their wants,
and ask the community of their
richer brothers and sisters-to help
them. A mother told me to-day that
she made satin vests that sold for SIS so
for twenty cents. Another, that she
made coats for thirty-seven and half
cents. There are others who could
tell the same, bat they dare not leave
their places to come here for fear that
Tonight they would not have "a place.
tn la, their hents. These women have
to 90 nppi dry crust nfbread all tlay,
and many others lay their sleepless
heads upon the pillows and ask our
Heavenly Father If there is no sympa-
thy left for poor woman. One other
unfortunate told me that she had to
se* boots and shoes for twenty Ave
a day and travelttliree miles to get this
work. have often travelled around to
these mansions of ours seeking for
work, but the mistress wanld not see
me, and have had to go to tile sta
ton houses and get something to eat
there, aud thank God for ii. We ask
Of yop. wealthy gentlemen. that we get
little homes where we can rear our
children and worship God and develop
that spiritual nature, and make ouI :
selves what God intended us to be.
THE SOCIAL EVIL.
Mrs. DIR. Hathaway said that the
question must be considered, not only
with regard to them, bnt in ,rega, d to
the welfare of the State. We have a
disease fatal 70 society in the form OF
this moral complaint. Friends, it is