Capitolo 35
with the help of his/her own slender salary of the girl earned in the country
shop of the small city, became sick with rheumatism. In his/her desire to
you earn more money that the girl of country has come to the great nearer city,
Chicago, to work in a department store. The tallest salary that she could earn,
even if she brought from a lot of suits and he/she called her "it experimented", it was
five dollars for week. This sum was also clearly inadequate for her really
the necessities and she were continually filled with a worry that corrodes for "the
you populate to house." In a moment of panic, a friend employee that was "wise"
it showed her/it that it was possible to add to his/her wages doing
appointments for money in the time of midday to hotels than in the down-city. Having
money earned in so for some months, the young girl did a
setup with an older woman to be whenever on call every in the evenings
she had summoned for telephone, while connecting so that great clandestine group
of respectable girls evidently, the most greater part of whom only produces to the temptation
when firm ground pressed from debt incurred in during illness or not-job, or
when they is facing some immediate necessity. This practice is become
so general in the greatest American cities as to systematically be
duct. Perhaps it is the most left consequence of the economic one
pressure, unless one quotes his/her corollary--the condition of thousand of
young men whose low salaries so cruelly postpone and unjustifiably them
marriages. For a lot of time the young order held its position in the
department store, holding back his/her honest wages for her but sending
all to his/her family. For a long time she changed from her however,
the clandestine life to an openly professional when she had need of enough
money to send his/her brother to Warm Springs, Arkansas where she maintained
him for one year. You explained that because he was now restored to health
and able once more to sustain the family, she had left "forever the life