...therefore, to offer attractive wages as well as attractive environment, and by such offers they drew into Eastern factories the daughters of the New England...in the scale of life. They were crowded out, but up intohigher callings. They became the wives of foremen and superintendents, teachers in the common schools,...

...publication, and a contemporary of Lucy Larcom and the other noble women who worked in the cotton-mills of those days. A change came over the industrial condition,...comparison which led to the conclusion that the factory is degrading. The women who came in then were very largely Irish girls, fresh and raw immigrants, from...

...publication, and a contemporary of Lucy Larcom and the other noble women who worked in the cotton-mills of those days. A change came over the industrial condition,...of life. They were crowded out, but up into higher SOME ETUICAL PHASES callings. They became the wives of foremen and superintendents, teachers in the...

...factory in the early days at Lowell, when the factory girls edited their own literary magazine, 338 which achieved high rank everywhere, are not clearly...teachers in the common schools, clerks in stores and counting rooms, and they lost nothing whatever by their life and services in the factory. The lower...

...daughters of New England farmers. These girls, through economic influences, were forced out of the factory, but they were not forced downward in the scale of...teachers in the common schools, clerks in stores and counting rooms. The women who came in to take their places were very largely Irish girls— fresh and...

...New England farmers. These girls, through economic influences, were forced out of the factory, but 87 they were not forced downward in the scale of life....the wives of foremen and superintendents, teachers iu the common schools, clerks in stores and counting rooms. The women who came in to take their places...