Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-27
"OLLA PODRIDA."
The Sad Story of the wan aud Weary
'.Pants" Maker Wearing Her
Life sHay
Earning a Mere Pittance to Keep BodJ
aad Soul TOgether-Good Nords
for Women.

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mona whsre few ever seek them 10 preach
fron-suIong the ranks Of labor, tot the
strops men, but the women aud chlidr'n,
who Toll where few zee hem, and weep
where lew come 10 coudole WITH or c2mloi'
them. Yesterday / Vas sssIed in Fopisr
street car, when iargs-iramed DIT de!loa'e
woman entered the car, csuylns 4 huss
bundle Of mems panlaloons. bannsa up
her nickel, and seated beside her, shtefeu
into conversation concerning her work
SHE GETS FOR THESE JEANS PANTS IL 30
dozen. BY the closest labor she can MAKE
two dozsn pairs in q week. As she Il
widow and has the domestic work OF her
family to do, she sews until IL o'clock al
might. doing all of her finishing work at
night. These garments we're well made, but
| ton holes neatly finished, prices tackled on.
| / followed her to the store Tor which she
| sews and found that her statement WAS tue;
that the pants cost when bought By pur-
chaser 81 rs a pair-just what twelve pairs
of pants cost TO mske-her pay fourteen cents
| a pair. Let US suppose that the goods cost
| thirty cents TO the merchant at hFsi purchase,
| which is a liberal allowance, three yards OF
goods thirty cents, the buttons and trimmings
ten cents more, fifteen cents fer making,
leaves sixty.fye cents profit 10 the seller on
| each pair, or allowing Tor thread and an
else there will be a clear profit OF fifty cents.
The woman recently arrested in Atlanta for
wearing mems clothing was asked why she
did such thing. Her reply was: 81 am
good tailor. As man, i am paid s. day;
as a WON an, get starvation wages, although
nv work is of the best" Few philanthropy.
lists see the evils that lie close 10 their feet,
and your article in the APPEAL Of May 23d,
"Child Labor in a Girls Room of Cigar
Establishment" ia Chicago, is only one Of
THE THOUSAND EVILS
that press upon the poor women and girls
among the ranks of labor. Low wages,
too low for earning a hard living, is the fruit.
full parent of crime. Can the men OF Americs
feel any surprise, that the ranks Of evil are
filled TO repletiop, where pay for sin is so
high and pay for work is so low. The labor
ing men must study all these questions, for
it lie the wives of lsboriug men who have
this unpaid toll, when the bread winner dice.
For the woman / have alluded TO was
widowed in 1879, by the fever. She is now
far gone in consumption and out OF her poor
wages, aided BY = son lesrning trade, and
little fellow who sells papers, she is paying
weekly or monthly installments on a sewing
m achine, for which she paid $50 by contr act
These machines are a monopoly Of the big
gest sort, and cost the manufacturers very
little, but army OF statesmen and other
expenditures must be met, and the dig pay at
last comes from the humble ueedlewomsn.
! In a labor organization here little thing
occurred net long since that tells its own
story, and should cauee the laborlng men
! serious reflection. The me ans OF elevation
, of labor lies in education, and to be a we'll
, educated man in practical knowledge is
! not, in this day OF newspapers and journals,
e a hard thing TO do. One of the men,
: for a key OF beer and some cigars
Another demurred, and said If they
e had money 10 spend it would be well, he
d thought, TO subscribe for papers for the
= Union instead Of buying beer. A discussion
5 arose, aud the man who wanted beer WAS in-
t dorsed; the man who saw need for newspaper
: matter was snubbed.
I TIE PROPOSAL TO TEACH THE GIRLS
o OF poor families in New York to sew by
= compulsiou, sounds strange 10 one who lie mel
on every side by vicious youths, that no one
ever dreamed of compelling 10 labor ar
hour, and who glut our houses Of refuge and
reform schools, becoming thus wards OF the
State. This compulsory training 10 hsnd
u labor is wise enough, but when we know
male criminals exceed females three 10 one
we can we'll zee that it lie woman's power
moving in this direction, to save, if possible
1 the same increase in crime among the idle
. of the females of the great city. ApropoI
!. to this, we have here in Memphis, an out
y growth from the temperance work of oul
: Noble women, an industrial school ST tb,
Bethel, which meets every Saturday, and arr
a instructed in sewing, plain and ornamental
:; This body Of women deserve for their quiet
e earnest and philanthropic work, ia the fac,
- OF oppositios and scorn, the most generou
aid. The little seed, planted as a Won am
:; Christian Association-little understood anC
y wronged al frst-has grown to be one Of i'm
= portance, and as
y sHELTERISG ARMS TO YOUNG Girls AM
CARE OF WOMEN,
IT it has saved much suffering and charity
g from the city work-feet from failing an
g. souls from destruction.
Of just here am reminded OF a statement
y recently heard man make shat women d,
not demand as high moral standard in me
D. as men demand from women" Men SHOULD
,st remember that woman has never filed tn
/? role of censor, nor would il be tolerated b
l the generality Of men who have held, an
or still hold, the destiny Of woman in Ihei
Dr. keeping.
lie j heard a man say some days ago that
8, was busy, in fact WAS 20 busy at work tha
IT he had to wait sometimes FIVE or ten minute
before he could take fresh chew OF tobacco
in Now, this mans wife hates tobacco, but love
m peace. Her very soul demands highs
w standard for him, and her needs deman
that this drain on his va Is should ceast
but her fAinest hint or remembrance weul
in any event rouse his anger; so she il con
PEELED to submit TO what she loathea as
habit in him; go, too, in cases of drinkin
- very often it Is The same. No matter, the
how the reformstory work Of women may
condemned in its methods, in face Of sue
facts as the recent Thompson Davis TRACED
growing out Of woman's drunkenness ar
Of thousands of like cases on the increa
~ steadily, reforms must come 10 that dire
be !. ~, .a.I WI " sas. =, =
ZIG alike. ELLSWORTH.