They are proud of the money they
make, but are not particularly proud
3e|’fersonian
of the way they make it. Ask them
if they make as much as the girls
who work in the shops down town,
and they will toss their heads, and
snap their eyes, and say: “Well, I
should say so. I make $6.00 every
week, and sometimes more; but those
girls at the laundries and White’s
and Kress’s and the other’ stores are
glad to get $3.00 a week, and none of
them make more than $5.00.”
**Then another put in: “Yes, they
think they are too good to associate
with us, just because we work in the
mill, and they h<ve to be dressed up
all day, while we do hard, rough
work. ’ ’
“Humph, they make me tired the
way they put on airs, so high and
mighty, as if they was too good to
breathe the air with us. Whew,”
and noses will go up and eager as
sent will be given the speaker.
“We may have to go to work ear
lier in the morning than they do, but
we get off every Saturday afternoon at
twelve o’clock, and they have to work
until nine and ten o’clock that night.
Who wouldn’t rather get up a little
earlier every day and have a whole
afternoon once a week?” was an ex
pression of sentiment that voiced the
thought and met with the approval
of the entire class as to the hours of
work.
