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to me for two days' toil. I learned that those garments when finished were sent to dealers all over the state, and were sold so cheap that even country mothers bought them for their children. Good people are amazed that clothes can be sold at such low

THREE YOUTHFUL SWEATERS.

prices, and well they may wonder. They should stand aghast at the conditions that made them cheap. Knee pants are finished for from fifty cents to a dollar and a quarter per dozen pairs, or an average of six or seven cents a pair.

No reasonable person condemns the legitimate cheapening of clothing, but it is the demand for cheapness at all hazards that should be subject to condemnation ; and we must not lose sight