Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-10-21
DUB FACTORY GIRLS
They Are Par Ah-.a of the English
s.trt In Es~rythtuz.

out TINS noon anu connarc tntm WIN
the girls that come out OF an English
factory and you will see what differ
cnee American resilc~sness. American
equality. education and wages make
said the manager % New England
min 20 me recently. IF YOU arca't sat
shcd With YOUR country it is because
YOU son', believe in giving the masses
any chance"
20 watched them as he had suggest
ed Most ~ the Young women bad hats
trimmed with considerable taste. They
wore bright shirt waists, with collars
and neatly tied bows, and skirts ~ a
good quality % cloth Some % them
had capcs. some boas. and they looked
fresh and healthy. as 10 they had enough
TO eat and were not returning home TO
ar ale-house brawL In England they
would have worn shawls over their
heads and n dirty gown Of the cheap
est stuff. They would have returned
home to bread and cheese for supper
aud maybe a glass 81 beer
II you had shown the group % Amsri-
can girls tia; ! saw 50 an English fac
they mus; have come from a seminary.
II you had convinced him ~ the truth
he would have said: What do factory
girls want such things for? 1t doesn't
help them 70 work. does IL p" To this
there is the reply: "wha: doesany body
want such things for? Why does any
body want TO be happy
Ii
said this American manager. do You
know that these American girls do
more and better work than the English
girls? There is sense Of discipline
and pride about them. You never see
them intoxicated. though it is very COM
mon TO see women drunk in an English
factory town. There are 10000 factory
hands in a radius OF five miles in this
vicinity. and there is only one pawn
shop. | should like to know OF an area
similarly populated in England that
hasn't ten pawushops.
English factory girls 60 20 Il pawn
shop every pay day and get out their
clothes and all valuablcs they have
Then the poor creatures 90 back on
Monday morning. after their sunday
night ale debauch. and put them in
pawn again. When We have been lis
tening 10 the talk Of foreigners we
Americans wonder somr times il we
have anything TO be proud Of tell
You these factory workers are some
thing TO be proud Of
II the English factory girl reads at
all il is the cheapest and most obiec-
iiouable % fiction papers. II she ever
goes 20 play. il j OF the loves,
aud cheapest variety. The Ameri-
can factory worker goes TO the theater
about tive times rs often as the Eng
lish girl. and selects plays Of n superior
class. Il Is a mistake 20 suppose that
all factory girls read Laura Jean Lib
hey; they don't. There has been a
great change in this respect IN the last
few years. Every factory town has IL
public library. and there the factory
girl finds a better class % books.
weut into a library AZ one factory
town and found that uius-teurhs Of the
readers there were actual workers. and
that the library did not keep Laura Jean
Libbey. There are factory workers
who get rs much pleasure out Of our
best works OF modern fiction Is the
sons and daughters % the rich.
And then n, factory worker in orr
country does not consider himself a de-
pendent being Is rule. he : an own
er - real estate ard 4 derasitor ir
the savings bank. Gise him work. and
in the majority ot eases he saves money
Girls DO not consider il A hardship tc
work IN a well ventilated factory over .
clean loom Mauyof them would rather
10 it than 20 clerk. Often the father
ard his two or three daughters and two
o. three sons al have places and 10
Se'he- cara $40 Or So 4 week. Vt this
rate they soon have enough saved tc
buy home. This i more than a thou.
sand generations Of their ancestor.
nave accomplished.
IL : not uncommon for two or thres
persons in factory workers family
- have bicycles \ factory worker ia
England with bicycle would De a Gu
riosiJy. philadelphia Press.