The evening world. Newspaper, December 2, 1914, Page 3

~ BIST ON i} 4 T \ ; Graduate of Smith College In-1 9, terviews ‘300 Girl Workers | for State. LUCK TO HAVE ‘FELLOW’! Many «Depend on Invitations! to Dine Out for Food to | Keep Them Going. How can working girls live decent- ty on wages of $5, $6 and $7 a week? Miss Esther Packard, special agent for the State Factory In’ wating Commission, gave her answer to that question from the witness stand at the resumption of the com- mission's hearing into factory and store wage conditions in the Supreme Court Building to-day before an au- dience composed largely of women. Generally speaki: ard’s opini cently. who Packard quoted a girl she called “Mins H, A.” as saying. “ ‘If I had to buy al my meals I'd never get along. ‘When I know my friend is coming in the evening I eat only a sandwich and @ cup of tea for supper and let hia treat of candy or soda make up for the rest. I always count on him for Sunday dinner, and my food bill rarely runs above $2 a week.'” INVESTIGATOR 18 GRADUATE OF SMITH COLLEGE. Miss Packard, who is a graduate of Smith College and who took a m: <Btate. Im that time she talked with 300 girla in New York City, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Rochester and Syra- “euse and obtained from them actual budgete of their living expenses as compared with their wages. “Dependence on friends for an oc- meal is regularly counted her husband’s death, two 2g0, at 16 @ week, little room in the ‘LS HOW FACTORY GIRLS. (Tozeaie etrict, but, as Mra. N. puts it Rereelf, ‘the Ughts are getting pinker every ECONOMIZES BY THREE IN A BED. “Gleeping three in a bed is the way one factory girl economizes on her rent. She pays only $3.60 a week for her board and room, but has to sleep in the bed with two of the landiady's Children. She has aleo to help with the housework, getting up at 5 o'clook girl of twenty who ts get- week in the millinery large department store 3 ‘I buy my euite with Usually I have rolla breakfast. That's 10 jf a€2 i yes Z 1A i I lepartment store week for h red it all out,’ she @ month 25 cents is taken envelope at the store fund. I've got to keep my job. If I i times I just cont meal, but CK AND PAMILY. fr UGHT CHARITY. “One factery giti who can’t earn more than @% @ week was sick with Evils in the morning to help get breakfast. | f: Tortures of Indigestion Miseries of Constipation Quickly and Safely Removed by The Chocolate Laxative Ex-Lax Saves Pain and Suffering; makes people healthy and fs safe for infants and grown-ups. Ex-Lex is guaranteed to be efficient, harmless. cools Ms Rew WE Prove Thies Tey it A WEEK WAGE! Solution of the | HOW GIRLS LIVE ON ONLY $6 A WEEK. to do it? do gitis stretch less ‘age into a Hving one?” is the questfon most often asked when one hears of 4itls living on $6, $6 and $7 a week. One girl answers quickly: “When 1 have to pay for a pair of shoes or something like that I don’t buy ineat for weeks at a time Another sa: never eat any reakfasts, By experience I found that was the easiest meal to do Without.” Another reasons thus: “When I don't spend any money on pleasure and only what I absolutely need on clothes, how else can I econo- Mize except on food? “When 1. pa ven lunch I'm extravagant," factory girl—From the testimony of Miss Esther Packard before the New York State Factory Investi- gating Commisston. nts for COLLEGE GIRL WHO TALKED WITH 300 GIRLS FOR.FACTORY PROBERS Mrs. John Martin, Author reduce those earnings still further by who declared the force the modern than $500 a ye & weekly pay envelope there is small marry.” Mra. Martin ts the anthor of ‘Tr Mankind Advancing?” the book which the late Mayor Gaynor praised #0 is also well known ffrage debater and typhoid fever and out of work four| speaker. In fact, Mrs. Martin's wit months, The Charity Organization | and intelligence have been aligned on Society had to help her family. ‘And| the “anti” side of several hotly-dis- ew rarer = HY she exclaimed. | cussed questions of the moment, and “ n't seem very much | those of us who most disagree with Thine wrens gene $9,000 boxes to @ m8-| ner conservatism cannot but admire “Just her skill in defending it. I knew that she felt strongly about what you and I call the economic in- dependence of women. and what she describes as their “commerctaliza- tion." So I went to her charming Staten Island home yesterday with Miss Snow's circumstantial logic. ARGUMENT JUST AS GOOD FOR CHILD LABOR. “The argument that the wife ought to be a wage-earner bec: band needs well be used as an argument for child labor,” Mrs, Martin began cool- ar Aboot lrg 10 walen Say wars ly. “In fact, similar reasoning is ad- than usual, Here is a typical list of| vanced by the owners of child-labor a factory girl's expenditures for cloth-| factories in the South. They say that the children ought to work because thelr wages are needed by the father and mother for keeping the home to- 89900000 0000006H8H000000 Hea ee EEO SOO ee some girls ingeniously ad- lying on friends to provide others admitted depending on friends to treat them to a show. The girl with the ‘fellow’ was de- cidedly in luck. The only problem geoms to be to get a ‘fellow.’ “Low wages and vice are by no means constant companions. but the lack of spending money and the ac- ceptance of the doubtful invitation go hand in hand frequently.” Abram I, Elkus, counsel for the commission, questioned Miss Packard at length and several in the audience tly interrupted. jeveral working girls told me,” said Miss Packard, “that they called 2.90 1.00] gether. The factory owners also say Piel that the children ought to work b cause it gives them an interest in life, that if they were not in the shops they would stay at home in idleness. The feminists argue on identically the same basis that wives have nothing to do unless they are wage- earners, “If you really bel that the world’s aim should the pro- duction of more things, then you must set women as well as men to the work of producing things. But my feeling is that humanity should be divided into two parts, To the men should be a DENVER, Col., Dec. 2.—The Fede- ral Commission on Industrial Rela- tions now investigating the Colorado coal atrike here will unde inquiry on the Rockefeller tion in the near future, Walsh said this was in accordance ;with plane formulated some time estimony will be taken in Ington beginning Dec. 2%, and ther investigation wili be held York Januar robably Rock- y, J. P. Morgan, Kingdon Gould “You see, I don't think we can get along without the family,” Mra, Mar- tin explained further, “And Mr. Mar- tin and I are now at work on a book in which we intend to show that fem- intam in all its manifestations is really the enemy of the family.” “But meanwhile what about the 56 per cent, of adult men who earn less than $500 a year?” I asked, * they marry unless their wives agree to remain wage. ners?” KEEP WOMEN AT HOME AND WAGES WILL RISE. of Impure Blood VERING WORLD, e YoungMen’s Wages, SoThey MayWed, Drive Women Out of Industry, Back to Homes| |\N WORST FOGIN | ona ? Te women WE woud 65 Yao whGes Sending Wife Out to Earn Pay Only Adds to Troubles of Males Who Earn Too Little to Support a Family—Calls Industrial In- dependence of Women “‘Commer- cialization” by Employers. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. “It 18 true that the modern young man ie increasingly unable to sup- port a wife and family by Ais own earnings, But the anewer ie not to world to compete with him. What we have to do is to put the women back into the home and eave them from exploitation by employers. forced to pay men enough money to enable them to keep their families properly.” That is Mrs. John Martin’ Snow, of the Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations, five per cent. of the adult men of the country earn leas *” argued Miss Snow. after marriage the work that brings them “In the firet place, all these men 2 would not be earning less than $500 @ year if #0 many women had not al- ton St. 867 Broad ready enterod the industrial and pro- |". ogan com the housewite'e | N ein NY. Newark, Noe fossional felds," she replied. “There! ald with ite ri Hy f—20 pleat N yn, N. 7. 0 OM os aro some lines of work tn which the) S580 tharaly you ' N Q1IWESTZ 34+MSTREET Capa ion ef wore Je partioulariy and moi ning sae on N Na 6.0 0 Oen No Hat : oon, 0 women N je C. O. D. Orders lo Hate on inary hare Retnlly driven mon er Waetica negates De ef During Sal *% 7s ee Dine Coy. A.) sahools, to emeeth, @ more wholecemely colored | N lereeyeny fe lea aucetion shin'which Nature meane every woman e the women, whe. ae evs. 64 te hive it one of jr aresteet charma, *” DEOBMBER 8, 1914. WapNnseDa pe Contractors “to @ Marriage Problem by Mrs. John Martin, Author and Suffragist. wanan ABoR 6 38 Iv Qn vete elALaRb tH wi6Nee a Fifteen Thousand Persons Ma- rooned on Boats Forced to Anchor During Trips. The second day of whatthe Weather Bureau calls “the worst fog in fifteen years” emothered New York to-day and put @ stop to all shipping except the tugs in the harbor. Steamm#hip men estimated that fully 16,000 people found themgeives im- Drisoned on anchored boats outside Ambrose Channel, along the Sound | then and up the Hudson as far as Albany; nor is there promise of the fog’e Mft- ing until to-morrow night at the earliest, the weather men eay. Outside Sandy Hook and the light- ship @ score of passenger boats and sooty tramps are swinging at anchor, not @ one of them daring to risk the run to Quarantine until the fog thins. Among them are the Verona, the Regina d'Italia and Duca di A all of the Italian line and all jam: with immigrants; the Frederick of the Swedish-American Line, Havana and Guan' of the Ward Line from Havana, the Pas- tores of the United Fruit Company from Central American ports and the Apache of the Clyde Line from Jacksonville and Chariesten. Of the Sound steamers many not reported and others are reported but long overdue. The Plymouth, from Boston, got In early. to-day, risking Hell Gate after being twenty- four hours overdue. The Providence 4s due but not reported. The H. M. Whitney of the Metro- olitan Line is also lost somewhere tween. Hell Gate and Fall River. Tho Bay State Lino officials sald they didn't know where any of their boats the fox has played some atrange tricks, The Hudson | Na jon Company's steamer Rens- |selaer which left Albany Monday night, had got no further than Poughkeepsie by 1 o'clock yesterday morning. There she landed the pas- sengers who were anxious to come to New York in a hurry. The Weather Bureau says the fog has come straight down from the Newfoundland Hanks and atret as far west as the Missiasipp: ‘That accounta for the failure of the California night boat to arrive at the Barge OM q iF Ht , i bs ; i & U i and Anti-Suffragist, Says CEYLON TEA. White Rese Coffee, 3 Pound Tian 4 WHAT CAUSES C¢ This and “How to Pree vent Colds” is asked a thousand times every day. A cold is a fever, not al sending hie wife into the industrial The latter will then be cused of taking her theories out in talk. “You don't think wonfan can fee * aby at the same vie ate rica she will alight tub Ing to take “If she tries she one or the otter, A iuenler ca keep two ‘of her children and her Idle Plates in the air at oe etene mo- ig ets , | gi rege or an eum: up Mrs. Martin, quietly bi firmly. ere's no one else lett for door when he is wanted, like lity plumber. i South answer to Miss Mary other day that economic conditions wite to be a wage earner. “Fifty. “Unless work- G0, &,—Purchasing agente ff the Rockefeller Foundation bought femiy. 000 bushels of wheat | tn ots yeste! iy relief he spinolcdtnnbendeat wits Wane i tag imate aan ie lan lor has ably the! 300/000 bushels. The. wheat wntegs Moreover, she remi appenrance of being @ fixture! shipped free of charge to chance that many of them ever will ee a oe caused -by their absence from ONE PRICE CLEARANCE SALE To-morrow and Friday Only we will hold a phenome- ‘ nal clearance sale. Every trimmed hat in our estab- lishment goes on sale at the uniform price of $4.45. This includes our entire stock of im- ported originals and our own inimitable reproduc- tions regularly priced all the way up to $25 Even milliners will do well to take advantage of this opportunity. 850 EXCLUSIVE MODISH MODELS, Ostrich, Goura, Numidi, Paradise TRIMMED HATS, 44° rarser $4] 015° 42025 crate There are 50 original models imported direct from such European authorities as Georgette, Lewis, Talbot, Varon and Reboux, and a host of our own productions. Shapes (mostly imported) are of Panne Velvet, Silk, more than the price for the entire hats at this sale. Plush, Lyons Velvet, Hatter’s Plush and a number of ‘These are the same hats we've been selling right up to the new silks. Many are hand-made. Trimmed with this week at the higher prices. Styles are all of the genuine London Ostrich Plumes, Goura, Numidi awl — latest—all are fresh from our workrooms, Timely Paradise. In black, white and all Winter hats when Winter hats are in home. “An sore professor and his wife have published elaborate calculations to prove that the total R ce to society. the one side may @ placed the women’s wages and the things they side the very | childre! ebild, you know, ly @ pot value to society. Thi there is money spent by the women for assistance in managing their households, the cost of attendance for their children, the waste in tho hasty, 1! vised marketing and cook- ing. ‘Tl nced shows a loss to the nation. Yet the situation continues because each in- dividual employer of these women finds a profit for himself. WOULD LIKE TO LEAD 8TRIKE AGAINST OUTSIDE WORK. “And still the working women them- ver: casi coount actually werk outside the women in thi re morning ni husband, and in America there 2,000,000 mere men than women with idle women, however, mits that much of the househ labor of another day has been taken away from her sex. But sho says there is no labor-saving substitute for the mother, LET WOMEN KEEP BUSY HELP- ING CHILDREN, “Every woman ought to feel that her work has something to do with children, When they are little, her own children ought to enlist all her energies. After she has some time to spare from them, let her help other mothers in taking care of their boys and grils.” Mra. Martin has no children of her own, but during recent years she has LLL ALLL TOOL OU ULLAL ALLAAH DOU LAD DUST half old, At least she cannot be ac- new modish rose and sand colorings. selec Tet bata ia taual U/ weutia cine This sale Positively will not extend $< In many instances the shapes alone or | ming a hat, or expeet to do #0, dont miss beond finaey and the early shopper Housework Hurts Hands the trimmings alone are worth far gets t selections, —How to Help It DOORS OPEN AT 8,30 aaet! “ree