Evening star., 1901-12-19
Very Beautiful Line of Xmas Umbrellas From 75c $3.50
Umbrellas Without
Novelties
%under Pree hs Samuel Fredlamder &C0t qgsn
416--Seventh Street NorthWest--416

work day will give only a few dollars a
week. Paper flowers are largely made at
home by tenement women. At this, too,
the childrens help is valuable, and little
ones soon become experts at twisting wire
deftly and clipping 1t to the right length.
Indeed, almost anything and everything
that can be fashioned out of paper is made
by the women Of the tenements at their
homes. Sewing the bands on umbrellas is
another occupation. Curling feathers is yet
another, and a most unhealthful one
Cooking is naturally source of income
as well sewing. At the noon hour all
over the tenement districts women sally
forth armed with great baskets Of cakes
and candies, homemade for the juvenile
trade. The older folks are tempted with
pretZels, but 1t Is by the children that such
women are chiefly supported. Contrary to
what might be expected, the children of the
East Side have probably more spending
money than those Of much more prosperous
neighborhoods in the city. Pennies take
the place of the caresses which the mothers
would like to give, but for which they have
no time. So, many women who have their
in small apples on sticks, and beat back the
ever bowling wolf with slabs Of ginger
bread.
Cigar Making.
Cigar making in the tenements does not
exist-officially. Legislators, being male.
have been particularly impressed with the
sanitary dangers of this form of sweatshop
WOrk But IL OOeS 20 on, just the same,
although not to any extent. As a rule,
when a family makes cigars at home there
Is a man in the family who works In a
factory and brings leaf home in order to
exc out his wages. The cigar makers are
the aristocrats of the tenement tradespeo-
ple Those who work at home are not ex-
perts but they do well, in comparison with
their less fortunate neighbors. 1t is ru-
mored that the princely sum of IS a week
may be made by working at this trade.
Rummaging through ash barrels and re-
pairing the refuse found there for sale aft
erward is one way that Italian women have
Of working at home. This singularly un-
pleasant and unhealthfuI occupation brings
in as little as any, but gives employment
to the children also. Shoes cast of by
some fairly well to do person may appear
all cobbled and beautified for sale at SO
cents.
Many women who have only one or two
children to provide for take places In some
shop leaving their little ones in the care
of some poor woman Of the same tenement.
Some women make their living entirely by
caring for the children of others. Some
times they are taken to board entirely.
Sometimes, too, the fouudlings of the city
are given to their charge. For this they re-
ceive 81 a week. These women, however,
must have decent homes to offer the babies,
SO the most destitute are often unable to
make money at this occupation.
If self-supporting woman of this kind
makes So a week she does very well. OF
this sum about 81 must go in rent For a
family Of five or six 80 week for food
Is just enough to keep away actual hunger.
In winter there Is COAL for which 10 cents
a scuttle must be paid.