Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-25
give them place to play or something
amusing to see or hear"

| give them place to play or something
amusing to sec or hear"
The examination of 1000 bakeries in
Chicago resulted in startling discoy-
] cries. Forty-nye per cent examined
were In cellars, large number of
which had nothing approaching ade-
| quate ventilation or lighting One,hun-
dred and four of these bakeries were
compelled 10 go out OF business; others
to make extensive improvements. Side
walk dirt was blowing into 40 bakeries.
with bread rising Immediately under
tho open windows. In a West Polk
street bakery from SIX to 10 cats were
recorded. and in one on Milwaukee ave-
nue., 16 dogs.
Polish and Slavic girls prefer scrub
binS in restaurants for So or So a week
which gives them miserable existence
in Polish town. TO SO or 81 n week in
addition to good home In a private
American family because n private
family with It's long and indefinite
hours. and Sunday work would Interfere
with their social pleasures and asplra-
tions. Domestic work puts a damper
upon their ambition to marry as quick
ly as possible, by throwing them out OF
the society of their equals. by taking
away their Sundays and by curtaillns
the number of balls and dances they
attend and the date" and appoint
ments resulting therefrom.
The November American Magazine
contains little thrcc-page article
which contains as much genuine human
interest as could be crowded into so
small space. 1t Is a document on
drunkenness. and is nothing more than
the plain story OF what the wife OF a
drunkard suffers. 1t is called Where
the Blow Strikes" Here is the poor
womanS conclusion:
Il have sometimes felt sad that had
no children, but l thank God for il now
That is one thing l have been spared.
Alcohol las robbed me of love, all hap
piRess. and all hope of n comfortable
home, but God In his mercy has spared
me bringing children into the world
who might have been idiots or epIleD-
tics
''T know numbers of people engaged
in the whisky business, having lived at
ono time in section of the country
where il was made. They are all pros
porous. have beautiful homes, live elc-
gantly. and seem happy. They live In
luxury because of the weakness OF the
wretches who cannot resist the temp
tatton to use their product. They are
living on the money that should have
gone to make comfortable homes for
women such as ], while l. at any mo-
.ment, may have to start into the world
to battle for the actual necessities o.
life. There have been times when IL
seemed absolutely impossible to stand
the torture for another instant; when 1
have rushed in from the street with
only one thought in my brain, and that
suicide. Once L grew hysterlcal and
screamed II seemed the only way TO
relieve the pain in my head. I rushed
to the bathroom. turning on all the wa
ter TO drown the sound, and screamed
until exhausted
Il am called a fanatic and told that
] am not informed upon the subject.
that j am not competent to Judge what
is best for the country. Perhaps not.
but can anyone know more of the mis-
cry it causes than II"
THACKERAY'S MARRIAGE
THOUGHTS.
or course every dutiful man tells |
everything to every dutiful wife.
True love Is better than glory; and =,
tranquil fireside with the woman of A.,
your heart seated by it, the greatest /,
good the gods san send to us.
Indeed. what con be more provoking. |
after dispute with your wife, than to
find it is you. and not she. who has been |
in the wrong2
Gether, and they say, MY dear and. |
MY love" as heretafore; but the man |
is himself and the woman herself; that /
dream of love is over.
In the name OF my wife l write the |
completion of hope and the summit of
happiness: and to think of her Is to
praise God.-From Mrs. Charles Mason
Fairbanks's Sense and Sentiment OF
Thackeray'