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stands, works, and aids others in various ways: "Employments of working-people are either subjective or objective; one cannot consort with another. Under the first are included (1) the stenographer, (2) the newspaper hack, (3) the type-writer, (4) those engaged in life-insurance business and in any sort of nursing; the second division embraces (1) mercantile women, (2) saleswomen, (3) tradeswomen, and (4) servants, who are Pariahs, so to speak, in the eyes of all other working-women."

These words plainly indicate wherein lies the difficulty of obtaining good domestic service. There is a certain loss of personal independence as to hours and meals, but housework ranks lowest in the scale of honest labor; ambition, uppishness, or aspiration, is of national growth. The proof-reader by universal testimony ranks highest in the scale of laborers; for good proof-reading requires not only an excellent elementary education, but also an intuitive mind. A copy-holder often advances to be a

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