The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-25

On the table are little piles Of bricks
10 hold the feathers firm while the hucs
being knotted.
No girls ara working m the shop. but
usually Mary has girls working herr
a. well az In the tenem"nt- Tw~uty-
eight in IN" tensmcnts. sometimes siN.
sometimes eight IN the shop May pays
rent for her shop. Tho father rrnts:he
apartment, four rooms and ere shor, Tor
N4 month. and Mary pays s. a month
for the shop.
Feather willoWing ia very good business
indeed. she says Every week she makes
SIS and in the bnav se1son. which lasts
eight or tan weeks. she clears $50. StS, So.
some,imes $40. Mary. unlike the sxtrava-
CANT American girl. dos not spend her
gold m Tiutous dressing Oh no. Her
frugal Italian father banks all the money.
80 that bv and by whom she grows older
and marries she will have a little nest
egg toward HON. Of her own
Anna and Mary we're both born in
America Annas parents came from
Rome and she hls tho pretty oval face.
dark eyes, deep brown wavv hair and
olive coloring Her manner - the ons 81
natural courtesy and fricndhnsss Tor which
her nationality 10 known.
Mary does not look very we'll There
are dark CirCl"% under her blue ewes
aud Sh" saws her head has h~en aching
hadl" for fv" days She j. fair with the
dazliIug Whit~ne-s of skin peculiar only
~ th" Italian blonde Niary's parents
com" from Naples. ami Mary il endowed
with "A wealth Of blonde hair full 81 golden
tints
VIII tho ladies let the reporter visit
som" ~ tho homes 20 sea them willow tho
I,rm">' Oh. YES the ladies' they will not
mind
"" go out into the trs-t. We climb the
stairs ~ a house. one flight. two flights
thr~r flights and enter the hack room 81
ia" rear apartment 81 thr,.e rooms \
folding bed h in one corner: a clock on
the shelf. above which a saints picture
hangs A taper in a cup ~ oil hurnns le-
low the picture An open door shows
. bedroom with brass l,adst"ad pil,d high
with feather beds Everything j. scru-
: pulouSly clean.
Seated az a table bv a window over
looking the back yard is a group % four
Fight years ago they came from Sicily
Yes. yes. beautiful country saws tn"
mother She and the children ar. all
dressed in black because the grandfather
died two months ago
do Won liz" tn make the fnl'hcrs' -
! N" mother was asked
They bring the money whv not j.
/ her reply NV man he good man. too
works on the holsa. plast"rs many days
But MANY DAYS there's ~ work one day
two DAYS. three DAYS. sometimes And
the winter NO man makes the house and
my man henut find work and the Oh ildrru
ara seven and We must eat.
Many ladies. many children help hrv
the eats making feathers NV girl che
nice grit good girl nakl the skrt-
But the ladies they make strike IA her
shop. No work. Many. many weeks the
ho-S- CIo-e the shop. MY boy h- work ny
Harlem market ~ q week, 81 a week ~.
bring the. hut he must eat eat much
He work very early in the morning
T. O'Clock and I maka all his washing
too. | not have much time In tie th.
plume I clsana the house. wash the
clothes. make the cooking. and my BAN
bino. only finish but four months. Much
work. much work.
NV children all good children. None
- them 60 10y the court. The street had
tad no good streets Bnda boy on the
street ~. GO by the court. NV ChtI-
dren make tho feathers The feathers
ar- good maki goui children. Street
rnaka figntA.
Papiua she not to 80 good N" feathers
Her eyeS they no good MANY days sh"
stay us.t e.: =oh-a! STE bring a ticket
from tho school The nurse IA" maxi"
Paplua g. To- the disp-u~,ry. Mavh"