by
Harriet H. Robinson
1898
Thomas Y. Crowell & Company
Boston: 100 Purchase Street
The “Almighty Dollar” in London Society CHAPTER I.Advertising for a Chaperon Americans are accused of having a too implicit confidence in the purchasing power of their country’s coin. In fact, certain foreigners have been known to say that the God referred to in the motto, “In God we trust,” engraved on the silver dollar, is…
The Characteristics of the Early Factory Girls
Chapter 10: Mill-Girls’ Magazines
Chapter 15 To Mord Em’ly’s great relief, her father did not appear at the cemetery, and as, for some days after this, she heard nothing of him, she persuaded herself that he had disappeared. A letter came from Henry Barden, dated from Brindisi—a brief letter, which announced the arrival there of the P. & O….
Chapter 7: Beginning to Work
Chapter 11 Mord Em’ly gave so much satisfaction as a vegetable girl in the kitchen at the back of Mrs. Mitchell’s dining-rooms that in a few weeks she, to her great content, was promoted to the position of assistant waitress. Here her natural alertness made her useful; the work suited her, and the patrons, finding…