New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-08
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! There is a side this shorter workday Ques-
ton that IS not considered in any discussion that
| I have seen-the domestic side" says writer in
! The Commons" The growth Of cities the In
crease in rentals throughout the moro accessible
parts OF cities. have driven the workngman further
and further from the factory whore he works.
Even though he finds living rooms near his work.
| in few months he is out OF work there and finds
another Job only in q plant miles away He can
not from Bronx to Battery. from Stock
Yards to Goose Island. every year or two. With
the uncertainty Of stIuu,c.l transportation. the
who is hours ride from his work must
leave his home hour and half before working
hours to be even fairly OF being at his post
time. II no must leave his home for work
3 O'Clock. the wife must be mp by o'clock TO
get him his breakfast. II. leaving factory at
.. m. It is 1880 when he gets home she cannot
have supper Ohe workingmen still call 1t supper
before OF $50 o'clock, and she cannot get her
work done up much before 10 o'clock A weary.
endless day OF tot! for the wives Of the working
poor IS what IN every city. Perhaps ten
hours is not, in cases. too long for n 10
work. but add hour required TO get TO his work
in the morning. and hour for him 10 get home
night an hour for the wife to get his
breakfast, and hour for her get through
with her supper work and you've got a hf
teen hour day-too long for any wife
work. Better look a little bit after the working
conditions Of the poor mems wives if you really
want to make better citizens out OF their sons
GlVe her a cIiance; She can 10 IL better than you
boy. She has the mother instinct. backed by the
patriotism in the public schools, with text
makers beat The bettors The
ITO listen TO the sentiments Of of the
wives OF workngmen, mothers OF boys, in the
poorer districts OF Chicago and New York, Is to
be convinced that outside agency make a
lover Of his nag out OF that woman's She
hates every hour she is awake She hates the gov
eminent. the church. the union, the non-union,
the police, the teacher; every waking hour she
lives to hate ana nearly all of her hours she
Is awake--and right there is the trouble. What
she needs Is sleep. Since she is such hatcr
while awake. let her sleep. There IS whole lot
OF good citizenship for boys in the shorter day
for in city factories and the consequent longer
nights for women
A physician says he thinks bigotry in religion Is !
a feeble affair compared To the bigotry which /
fists in tastes and foods. He has patience with I
the miserable narrow, fHicky habits and feelings
which If people realized il. hint at degeneration
Again, he says IN large number Of American [
families It is positively painful To witness the I
pressions Of extreme fondness extreme dislike /
for this that article of food Ridiculous as IL /
may seem. and women go through life totally /
unable TO enjoy and derive benefit from variety
OF wholesome foods The dislike has been formed .
In youth and they have never taken pains 10 ell '
large their generosity and learned 20 eat the
given article.
For instance. it Is very common 20 see persons
carefully trim off the fat from meat They say
eat II The chances are. especially II neurotc,