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 Wage-Earning Women

By ANNIE MARION MacLEAN,

Professor of Sociology in Adelphi College

Cloth, leather back, 12mo, $1.25 net; by mail, $1.35

"This book needed to be written. Society has to be reminded that the prime function of women must ever be the perpetuation of the race. It can be so reminded only by a startling presentation of the woman who is 'speeded up' on a machine, the woman who breaks records in packing prunes or picking hops, the woman who outdoes all others in vamping shoes or spooling cotton.... The chapters give glimpses of women wage-earners as they toil in different parts of the country. The author visited the shoe shops, and the paper, cotton, and woolen mills of New England, the department stores of Chicago, the garment-makers' homes in New York, the silk mills and potteries of New Jersey, the fruit farms of California, the coal fields of Pennsylvania, and the hop industries of Oregon. The author calls for legislation regardless of constitutional quibble, for a shorter work-day, a higher wage, the establishment of residential clubs, the closer coöperation between existing organizations for industrial betterment."—Boston Advertiser.

Making Both Ends Meet

The Income and Outlay of New York Working Girls

By SUE AINSLIE CLARK and EDITH WYATT

Illustrated, cloth, 12mo, 270 pages, $1.50 net; by mail, $1.60

The girl who, without friends or home, is obliged to earn her living in a big city, faces a very real problem. Various phases of this problem have been dealt with by philanthropic, social and religious workers and writers; but the solution is seemingly as far away as ever. Though there are many homes and organizations of a semi-charitable nature in all our large cities, these really can care for and watch over but a small per cent of the working girl population. Those who for one reason or another do not come within the radius of these institutions must shift entirely for themselves. These are the subjects of Mrs. Clark and Miss Wyatt's book.

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