The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-07-07

learnln'"
And where Is your sister. little Grip I
asked once more
There was no reply, but the little finger
pointed to one of a group Of other little
giay shadows
Sister" aged years, had been work
ing in the mil for a year, aud there were
other sisters there aud brothers. too She
and the tiny, girl ! had just been talking
70 came me dt . IN dhe morning, when each
h I.i rs expected TO peal her past and they
t,HVi ch EnIougnout Ihe ehure gay IN
w. tn ,, nisnO' WIZ man an hout allowance
passed along through bhe civ frames to the
'lN bp0'ndied 99t az si ssr ana hro,
wen nen 90 Eonr "thef sisters ana bFoth'
e' .ar gone ot,ers sSk9 en- +hor,-o ~ ,,o .t,.
sbIft used IA Tort nicbfs Too ,niif ~
ynt tbot ,o,,ii,'t t,,pd us wv uHtl II
20 rouIdn't, siaen much in DAYTIME" che
Gala ebviv In renS,, 70 NJ cncstiIr rTbo
viston SeTnn hefare me y, ~ i,ttio ane
shuttinS her cyrs tirht srsipet nc s,,n
shine Which was calling the weary bebv
to its natural playpronnd in he yooniey
a playground alas in which it has never
learned to play.
OF an the terrible aspects OF this OK.
plcitatlon OF child labor the night SHIFT
IS the worst. No difference is made be.
ii,tIc children. In all mills il rs tyyeIve
hours, usually from y noon to II midnight.
Sume Of the mills which run at night work
twelve hours witch no break a all If the
niEht force goes on at midnight 1t means
ttat the llttle children are aroused from
their tired pillows in the dead. dark hours.
JUST after they have succeeded In coax
ing the hrst sound, deep sleep IL means
[ bli. my mace tnelr Way bng g5ls ana
! ooys' olIeh alone through the thlck dark
meas To tne noisy turmoil of the mill.
stupid blnnders and tbat he snpeFntend den3
or foreman gets out OF patience with the
ntilc worker and tells 1t 10 60 home, But
u re EYER does 20 aom ne d3r u is AFRAID to
so "iGpF so s'f n IA b Tne bgh 30 ~ ue 6
d-opz on 10 sleep. II there is no safe place
d -.
not iis HEY % T Taa5$ "a 'iFsR a apo ssS
goes +, out '9 tt t9e mn YARD ana stretches
sIadow Of The The hHHcSks vail vail 'He p'''e''i"s
saw such sights as these In my seven
morths solourn among the southern mills
i yen 60 Into some 1 Of the n, little homes IN
wnc nave come In tired ana weary and
Shpir hard beds where they tried All the
Nveioug bright, sunny day 10 WOO tine son
deep siumber that is the heritage of enid.
hood
hnt eyGryw1heTe went heard q ,t the same
yne cniidfen 70 sissP in daylight - il seems
themselves t. anything SO uauatural' 10
chidhoCd as hard labor an night and sleep
al fa%I,pd ~. oorat.to, or Io,- fo,,rs ,v,sr
Ing In almost All OF the twenty i've mills
j Visited in Alabama, though little OF inc
pipbt work which Included sixteen cIties
nnd villages The same condition exists in
Georgia ana In The Caroliuas. TOO. where
night work Is much moro usual-the same
pitiful cruel conditions aud the same mis-.
cradle wage for these children rarely make
more Than 80 cents day, AMI thar much
only after they have served a long 8p
prentlceshp. ! found many earning but
10 cents, ana the majority make nnywhere
between 20 and 80 cents for their twelve
hours labor.
eager 10 60 % the schools, about which
they have heard so much As ! walked
between the long rows of looms ever so
often often little yelce raised itself above the
w mur III, WIN haeoaisgs' Iauy' are you coming
oRpIIeoousss III az, ,o,, .ho sohoo,
teae6ergT ''u
please. mas am to go 10 school9"
The questions were asked everywhere
In mills on the streets In the evenings In
The little houses where / often sat around
the IRE with the mothers and fathers after