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proof-reader; whereas a type-setter seldom or never becomes a copy-holder. The most amusing instance of drawing the line is seen in the superbly quiet manner in which the "ladies" behind the counters of large dry-goods establishments regard the "women" in thread-and-needle stores; and these in turn look down upon the "girls" employed in confectioners' shops, and the lower kind of omnium-gatherum stores always to be found in the neighborhoods of the poor. They all may stand upon their feet throughout the day and sell goods; but that is all they have in common, except through incidental charitableness. Again, newspaper-work ranges from that of the regularly paid "contributor" on certain subjects, to that of the person with the ready wit to puff up patent medicines or do a job in twenty minutes.

In talking with the thoughtful working-woman one is struck by the philosophical terms, — obtained through processes of imitation

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