good for the ties, and the handlers and wearers of
the ties yet to come.

Another case Mr. Holmes visited was that of a
young girl, twelve years of age, charged in the police
court with stealing food. He found her the deputy
mother of a boy of nine, a crippled boy of seven,
and a younger child. Her mother was a widow
and a blouse-maker. She paid $1.25 a week rent.
Here are the last items in her housekeeping account:
Tea, i cent; sugar, I cent; bread, ?? cent; marga
rine, 2 cents; oil, 3 cents; and firewood, i cent.
Good house wives of the soft and tender folk, imag
ine yourselves marketing and keeping house on
such a scale, setting a table for five, and keeping an
eye on your deputy mother of twelve to see that
she did not steal food for her little brothers and
sisters, the while you stitched, stitched, stitched at
a nightmare line of blouses, which stretched away
into the gloom and down to the pauper s coffin
a-yawn for you.

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