A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil

Jane Addams

Capitolo 90

Island of Ellis that affirms that his/her mother had arrived to New York, but you/he/she was
too much sick to be expeditious above to Chicago. All of his/her money you/he/she had gone for the
ticket of steamboat and as the thought of his old mother of country, sick and
alone among extraneous, it was too much for his/her long moral courage, she did the
better possible bargain with the waiter of head which importunity that she had
until here it withstood to, it accepted the other Polish girls the small purse in
the hotel picked up for her and only arrived to New York to find that
his/her mother was dead first the night.

The simple obedience to parents from these girls of immigrant,
working in hotels and restaurants, it often fails pathetically. Them
human nature and it doesn't spoil, not yet immune to the poisons of the urban life, when
you thrust in the mean of that toil not assuaged to which the lies
foundation of every complex luxury, results often in the most fatal
reactions. A young German woman, the owner of that that an is considered
"house" succeeded in the most notorious district to Chicago, the trace
directly goes of career to a desperate attempt to suit for the standard of
"house that brings the good wages" maintained by his/her numerous brothers and
sisters. A requisite of its house was rigid:  every money earned by a
child has to be paid in the income of family until "legal age" you/he/she was
reached. The slightly neurotic, very beautiful girl of seventeen of heart
detested the flat-washing in a restaurant that constituted her/it first
puts in America, and rather it honestly declared that the heavy lifting was
over his/her strength. Such insubordination was not born to house, and
every Saturday evening when its thin wages, had been reducing for ill days "street,"
it was comparative with that in which you/they brought the others, she was regularly
scolded, "he/she sometimes slapped", from his/her parents, derided to from her more
vigorous sisters and it intimidated from his/her brothers. You tried to shorten her/it
times from rush-jobs like a maid to midday, but she found this
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