_THEODORE ROOSEVELT._

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PREFATORY NOTE

A portion of the material in this book appeared serially under the same
title in _Everybody's Magazine_. Nearly a third of the volume has not
been published in any form.

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CONTENTS

By MRS. JOHN VAN VORST

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Introductory 1

II. In a Pittsburg Factory 7

III. Perry, a New York Mill Town 59

IV. Making Clothing in Chicago 99

V. The Meaning of It All 155

By MARIE VAN VORST

CHAPTER PAGE

VI. Introductory 165

VII. A Maker of Shoes at Lynn 169

VIII. The Southern Cotton Mills 215
The Mill Village
The Mill

IX. The Child in the Southern Mills 275

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Miss Marie and Mrs. John Van Vorst in their factory costumes,
_Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

"The streets are covered with snow, and over the snow the soot
falls softly like a mantle of perpetual mourning," 12

"Waving arms of smoke and steam, a symbol of spent energy, of the
lives consumed, and vanishing again," 58

"They trifle with love," 70

After Saturday night's shopping, 84

Sunday evening at Silver Lake, 96

"The breath of the black, sweet night reached them, fetid, heavy
with the odour of death as it blew across the stockyards," 102

In a Chicago theatrical costume factory, 114

Chicago types, 128

The rear of a Chicago tenement, 144

A delicate type of beauty at work in a Lynn shoe factory,