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The Woman Who Toils - Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Marie Van Vorst;Mrs. John Van Vorst
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"Waving arms of smoke and steam, a symbol of spent energy, of the
lives consumed, and vanishing again," 58

"They trifle with love," 70

After Saturday night's shopping, 84

Sunday evening at Silver Lake, 96

"The breath of the black, sweet night reached them, fetid, heavy
with the odour of death as it blew across the stockyards," 102

In a Chicago theatrical costume factory, 114

Chicago types, 128

The rear of a Chicago tenement, 144

A delicate type of beauty at work in a Lynn shoe factory, 172

One of the swells of the factory: a very expert "vamper,"
an Irish girl, earning from $10 to $14 a week, 172

"Learning" a new hand, 184

The window side of Miss K.'s parlour at Lynn, Mass., 196

"Fancy gumming," 210

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