The Woman Who Toils / Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls

by Mrs. John Van Vorst; Marie Van Vorst

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

• [Miss Marie and Mrs. John Van Vorst in their factory costumes]
• ["The streets are covered with snow, and over the snow the soot falls softly like a mantle of perpetual mourning"]
• ["Waving arms of smoke and steam, a symbol of spent energy, of the lives consumed, and vanishing again"]
• ["They trifle with love"]
• [After Saturday night's shopping]
• [Sunday evening at Silver Lake]
• ["The breath of the black, sweet night reached them, fetid, heavy with the odour of death as it blew across the stockyards"]
• [In a Chicago theatrical costume factory]
• [Chicago types]
• [The rear of a Chicago tenement]
• [A delicate type of beauty at work in a Lynn shoe factory, and One of the swells of the factory: a very expert "vamper," an Irish girl, earning from $10 to $14 a week]
• ["Learning" a new hand]
• [The window side of Miss K.'s parlour at Lynn, Mass.]
• ["Fancy gumming," and An all-round, experienced hand]
• ["Mighty mill—pride of the architect and the commercial magnate"]
• ["The Southern mill-hand's face is unique, a fearful type"]

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THE WOMAN WHO TOILS

CHAPTER I—INTRODUCTORY

BY

MRS. JOHN VAN VORST