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282. lappuse - These girls, as I have said, were all well dressed : and that phrase necessarily includes extreme cleanliness. They had serviceable bonnets, good warm cloaks, and shawls ; and were not above clogs and pattens. Moreover, there were places in the mill in which they could deposit these things without injury ; and there were conveniences for washi:]?. They were healthy in appearance, many of them remarkably so, and had the manners and deportment of young women : not of degraded brutes of burden.
283. lappuse - I am now going to state three facts, which will startle a large class of readers on this side of the Atlantic very much. Firstly, there is a joint-stock piano in a great many of the boarding-houses. Secondly, nearly all these young ladies subscribe to circulating libraries. Thirdly, they have got up among themselves a periodical called THE LOWELL OFFERING, "a repository of original articles, written exclusively by females actively employed in the mills...
282. lappuse - Their life in the factory was made pleasant to them. In those days there was no need of advocating the doctrine of the proper relation between employer and employed. Help was too valuable to be ill-treated.
283. lappuse - I solemnly declare, that from all the crowd I saw in the different factories that day, I cannot recall or separate one young face that gave me a painful impression ; not one young girl whom, assuming it to be matter of necessity that she should gain her daily bread by the labour of her hands, I would have removed from those works if I had had the power.
226. lappuse - When the large covered baggage wagon arrived in front of a "block on the corporation " they would descend from it, dressed in various and outlandish fashions (some of the dresses, perhaps, having served for best during two generations) and with their arms brimfull of bandboxes containing all their worldly goods.
281. lappuse - Except in rare instances, the rights of the mill-girls were secure. They were subject to no extortion, and if they did extra work they were always paid in full. Their own account of labor done by the piece was always accepted. They kept the figures, and were paid accordingly.
225. lappuse - ... and farmers' sons and gave new life to lonely and dependent women in distant towns and farm-houses. Into this Yankee El Dorado these needy people began to pour by the various modes...
225. lappuse - The stagecoach and the canal-boat came every day, always filled with new recruits for the army of useful people. The mechanic and machinist came, each with his home-made chest of tools and his wife and little ones. The widow came with her little flock and her scanty housekeeping goods to open a boarding-house or variety store, and so provided a home for her fatherless children.