A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil

Jane Addams

Capitolo 38

the majority is American. All of us know that the American girl is grown
above in the belief that the world is his from whether to choose, that there
it ordinarily is not limit to his/her ambition or to his/her definition of the success.
You understand that she is well-mannered well and well dressed and it doesn't do
otherwise couples from the most greater part of his/her clients. You only see an aspect of her
farmer that you/they come shopping, and she can believe well that the head
pertains to some life it is attire to the fashion. His/her interest and the ambition
almost becomes inevitably completely worldly, and from the a lot of fact that
she has down a job city, she gets an exaggerated idea of the luxury
of the illegitimate life all around her that it is hidden as soon as.

The fifth volume of the relationship of "Women and Child wage earners" in the
United States gives the result of an accurate investigation in "the relationship
of wages to the moral condition of women of department store." In
the connection with this, the investigators assured "the personal histories
of one hundred immoral women", ten were of whom or you/they had had a job in
a department store. Yours founded that while only one of the ten had been
directly incited to leave the shop for a disreputable life, you are of them
says that they had found "it was easier to earn money this way." The
states of relationship that the middle employee in a department store it earns
approximately seven dollars for week, and that the average income of that
one hundred immoral women covered by the personal histories, varied from
fifty dollars for week to one hundred dollars for week in unusual cases.
It is of these unusual cases that the girl of department store feels,
and the knowledge becomes part of the irreality and the bright life that
it is all around her.

Another class of young women that I/you/they have especially shown to this
tempting knowledge is the maid in coffee than in down-city and restaurants. A
the recent investigation of girls in the district segregated of a
attends him of places of near city in restaurants and hotels as taller on
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