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with their parents in rooms, who work all day and sew all night, and go to church on Sunday, or remain at home without gadding about; (3) then the God-forsaken class, who stay honestly in their attics and die by inches, who are not skilled workwomen by birth, and who never can be, any more than all can be artists, but who can do slopwork, and starve to death (Why don't the skilled pity the unskilled, and look only to the slow process of better-born generations to do away with the amount of unskilled labor?); and (4) there are the servants," and she shrugged her shoulders, as if mention of them were needless.

The desire for combination, as the means of a general elevation, obtains among the more thoughtful portion of the women. It does not follow that because these women do not know much they therefore think little. Life experience has made them rich in thought, and the socialistic and free-thinking papers urge them on to clearer definition of their needs, often