The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-03-15

shop, two trim and tidy young women from
Boston are shaving the face Of masculine New |
y ork at ten cents head-or face. They are /
demure, well-bred, lady-llke, neither fast nor
coarse in manner, but carry quiet, woman
ly dignity and grace about their work which
disarm criticism, and shame frivolity into re-
spectful silence. One Of them whisked of
your correspondents grizzly beard with
lightness Of touch most charming by contrast
with the average masculine biped, who mis-
takes your face for hayfeld. Her work was
done delicately and we'll, except that, being
woman, she must look around at some gentle
men talking behind the stove, and scratch my
face with the razor-but women can't change
their natures, even when they become barherst
The girls draw immensely, and the proprietor
has been obliged to put on several malo bar
bers to accommodate the rush. The expert.
ment is a grand success and as looked into
the brown eyes Of the brave little woman Civ.
ing the finishing touches to my grey nous
tache, 1 wondered how many struggling
women hungry for honorable employment,
but drifting past the few overlooked avenues
Of woman's industry towards shame, Will yet
thank these plucky Yankee girls for pioneer.
ing another path through the tangled wilder.
ness that frowns before every poor girls life.
Success to the Barberess May her namo DC
Legion Send your big burly fellow out to
swing scythe and let his delicate sisters
vie Id scissors, comb and razsr, Too long, far
too long, thousand avchues Of honorable in.
dustry have been Closed against her. Make
way for woman d the new field! Run up the
flag Of "Worlans Right-to shave" and If
any man attempt to haul it down, shoot him
on ths spot
THE TENEMENT HOUSE NoLocH.
The tenement house contains forty per cent
Of New York's lnhabitants-and furnishes
seventy per cent other funerals Nine-tenths
of all the children born in these houses die be-
fore reaching the age of five years. Moloch
is outdone, Herod is out Herodcd in the rich
est city of the New World. Human hives
in all but industry and sweetness covering
a single city lot Of 25xlO0 feet hold over n
hundred people; fifty to seventy children are
often found in house fifty feet front -four
families occupy a single room with but chalk
mark on the bare and dirty floor to divide
their spaces ventilation and light in the
halls and inner rooms are unknown. Sixteen
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cooking sleeping in single room. Secusor
is impossible virtue u fable rising dimly
out ofthe mist Of the Past; religion and clean
illness nre smothered in rags and despair and
shame and a popU' alton ouinumbering hd
Of Chicago. lives, moves and has its being ir
this fearful way DO you wonder 1t takes ar
army Of police half as large as Burgoyne sur
rendered, backed by as many more citizen sol
diery, to keep Baxter Street from cutting
Fifth Avenues throat? And don't you won
der that no awful pestilence, starting in thest
plague spots, has swept Five Points anC
Murray Hil to a common ghastly death
Thank God for a narrow Island between broad
swift, salt rivers; and the ocean breczcs tina
roar up our bay from the Na,rows for i'm
munity from that But the Tenement Hous,
has not ioregone all revenge. 1t can vote
1t gave us Tweed, and Tweedism sent Goa
and shoes and rum-mostly rum-back to tn,
Tenemcnt-House in payment for its vote, steal
ing fifty mi ions in ten years to do 1t with
The tenement-hOuse wards did Tweed's bid
ding at the polls long after the whole city wa
in arm against him. They are mighty once
year, and any man who will send them rum
shoes and coal, can have their puissant con
sent to plunder the taxpayer to his heart
content.
Over year ago The Plumber & Sdnitar
Engineer began urging this SUI ject upon put
lie attention and few months ago unite
with several public spirited gentlemen in OF
fering $500 in premiums for designs of house
f for wOrkingmen where light, ventilation
drainage and comfort might teach thes
sweet word "home." rhe world should kno'
wretched beings that there is a meaning to tn
such men by name, and hold them up tVa
, men may see and honor the authors of this hu
q name enterprise. In addition to the owner
of the Sanitary Engineer they are +. B. Thu
her, ID Willis James, Henry Il. Pellew an
S Robert Gordon.
S Then they called the clergy together, IN
when the Church lifted up her mighty voc,
. the press and people took up the cry. No
i we are promised laws to prevent OvercrOwi
@ ing, to destroy these charnel houses, and bull
=, up healthiul dwellings for the poor, whel
sheer despair need not necessarily, ms nov
I drive men to rum, crime and communism
D God speed the day MORLEY.