Capitolo 39
the list of "preceding occupations." A lot of maids are paid so little
what they accepts with gratitude some tax that men are able offrirloro. It is also
the universal habit for clients to enter easy conversation while
having served. Some of them are young solitary men that have little
the opportunities to talk to women. The girl rather innocently accepts often
an invitation for an evening, or spent in a theater or room of dance,
without the bad results but this a lot of lack of social convention exposes
his/her to danger. Also when the owner means to protect the girls a,
the certain amount of the familiarity must be bears, so that not the their resentment
you/he/she should decrease the patronage of the coffee. In the certain restaurants,
the maids suffer besides undoubtedly, because the patrons compare
them with the girls under that you/they use their work in the disreputable cafe
the semblance to serve drinks.
The following history would show that friendly and mere propinquities are able
constitutes a danger. Last summer a honest girl, right from a
the small city of lake in northern Michigan was working in a coffee in Chicago,
sending every week more than halves his/her wages of seven dollars to her
mother and the small sister, sick with tuberculosis, to house. His/her mother
possessed the small house where she lived, but apart the vegetables
she raised in his/her his/her own garden and an occasional payment for simple sewing,
his/her younger daughter and she were dependent on the hard-working girl
to Chicago. The heart of the girl had been growing heavier week for week as his/her/their mother
letters brought that his/her sister was daily growing weaker. One warm day
to August she received a letter from his/her mother that tells her/it to come to
once if her "he/she saw sister before she died." To midday that day when
him gotten sick by the warm air of the coffee, and when the clatter of dishes, the
humming of conversation, the orders shouted through the slide seemed but a
horrendous accompaniment to her tormented thoughts, she was suddenly