Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-03-15
LITTLE ROCK, ARK, SATURDAY, MARCH Is, 1890.
Vol. ILL., 3; 3

rested blame or blemish. In relation to the frauds
charged to have been committed in his district,
Mr.. Breckenridge said that nasmueh that it was
claimed that the death of Col. Clayton was in
tended to affect his rights to seat on the floor it
was due to the community In which the event oc-
cured that full inquiry should be made into the
matter. His idea had been to broaden the inquiry
SO that the House would have the fullest possible
information on everything relating to the matter
directly or indirectly, and that full and fair notice
should be served on all who had any complaint to
to make of that community and charges to make
against the officials of the State of Arkansas, to
come before the tribunal and prove their charges
or else hereafter hold their peace.
THERE are sixty-seveu thousand sesmstresses in
the city of New York, or such is the report of the
statsticians in the employ of the United States
Labor Commission.
Miss Nell Nelson has been making the acquant-
ance of some of this toing army of women and
girls, and has told through the columns of the
New York World the story of their privations,
painfully long hours, wearing work and small eaIn-
ings. She says:
There is no class q persons in the rough, broad
fields of labor subject to greater hardshps than
those who fashion, finish aid launder the delicate
white goods that are at once the charm and refine
ment of womans wardrobe. Their daily trials
are only exceeded by the privations forced upon
them or voluntarily assumed that dependents may
live. They practise system of generosity that
is without parallel; not only are personal CON-
forts surrendered that elders may be maintained
whose claim upon them Is debatable but they go
without proper food and clothing that young broth
ers and sisters may be kept in the decent attire
required by many of our too aesthetic school
teachers. They live on less money, and
are more wretchedly clad fed and housed than any
other people in the world Everybody imposes on
them-employers, parents, sisters and brothers;
neglected by the relatives whose pride it
should be to honor them and scorned by a society
whose duty it is to help and respect them, they
have little or no confidence in their worthness,
and but for the solace and promise of religion,
there would be nothing to sustain hope.
''No man, whether husband brother or son,
would endure woes, distresses miseres and de-
mails that not only enter into, but actually make
up the daily lives of these seamstresses They
couldn't do 1t and keep bodily vgor. Men revolt
when living is taxed, but there is that finer streak
in woman-call it divine or weak as you will
which maks her satisfied to exist. Too frequently
the struggle becomes unbearable, audn the human
stream of pallid, fragile, CHEEKY creatures that
come from the machines and trimming tables Of
the great manufacturing houses and moving home
ward, empty in Broadway from river to river may
befound the personnel of the saddest dramas and
the most distressing tragedies current in modern
civilization.
''Is it strange that so many miss the narrow
path?
''Not bit.
''The marvel is the many who, weak and foot
sore famshed in body and soul, drag their weary
lengths closing their eyes to the auremens OF the
o4bor rood Anrale nould do No mora -