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F the clgaret girl of Europe, who drifts to
Chicago, ran find a situation In her new home
whore she ran continue hpr clgaret rolling, she
considers herself lucky. The shops In which
the hand made article la atlll produced nre few
and far between. A couple out in Milwaukee
avenue, and a few here and there In Halsted
street, and two down In the heart of the Ghetto
In a block In Jefferson streeet. are all that Is left of the
dwindling; hand made clgarex Industry, which once flourished
In Chicago.
If the newly arrived Jewish or Yiddish maldon, who Is
usually an accomplished clgaret roller at HI, cannot pet one
of these places, she lenrns tailoring and goes Into the sweat
shops. As compared with the life In the sweatshops that In the
clgaret factory la one of ease and luxury.
Soon Leaves Shop to Become Wile.
There Is another thing whloh makes the clgaret girl the
envy of all the other workers In the Ghetto. She Is not In the
factory long before she becomes a wife. And to be married
early and become the mother of sons Is the ambition which
the true Jewish maiden of this class contemplates with
religious, as well as romantic, fervor.
It Is the complaint of the clgaret manufacturer more than
any other employer, that his girls " nre not long with him."
Two year are the most he can generally keep one, he says,
and If he gets one who Is an especially good worker, or who
la prettier or brighter than the average, he does not keep her a
year probably. " She want to get married." says the Israelite,
nodding his head toward the girls, who do not protest, except
to smile and work the faster to cover their embarrassment.
It Is easily seen why the clgaretmnker readily changes
her estate for that of the Jewish wife.- Perhaps of all the
places In the Ghetto, the tobacco shops with their clear frag
rance, are the least repellant With their unfinished wood
Inferiors and all the variety of tobacco merchandise In the
same harmony of color, capped by the gay labels, there Is
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II t " V - I ' '- employer. " But she last not at all." said he. " She Mng so
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" ' ' ' Ci '"i something of the picturesque. At least, the low celllnged
. .- - m VV J "? land dingy little shop, Is an oasis which It Is a relief to turn
. Y I VVI -fV 50 Into, In the Ghetto.
4 lf4 r ' Customers Fascinated by Bright Eyes.
Added to this, when after accustoming one's eye to the
dimness, one sees a fine wire screen partitioned off across the
rear of the little shop, there Is a sense of the fascinating and
mysterious, In gradually making out that there are bright,
dark eyes gleaming through It, with curious looks looks
which do not hinder In any way the swiftly (lying fingers at
work.
The half veiled sight of the clgaret girl which the screen
affords does not lessen In any sense her attractions. And
when there also float out from behind the screen strains of
the melody of a Russian folk song, the heart of the Jew,
whether he be old or young, who comes here for his Rus
sian clgaret, Is easily captured.
The clgaret girl sings because she Is happy. On the
friendliest terms with her employer, who is sihrewdly alive
to the attractions of the manufacturing side to his establish
ment, the girls are encouraged to sing at their work. The
story of one girl with a voice like a Carmen Is told by her
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If this Is so, however, there are always those who nre
ready to take her place. She works under especially favorable
conditions. Her screen protects her to some extent from the
dust and dirt. Where she sits the light and air are shared
Impartially with the rest of the little shop. She does not have
to breathe the dust that kills, slowly but surely, as It Is
Inhaled by the worker over the shoddy goods. In the sweat
shops. And although she makes but $s to fio a week, the
best she can do at the rate of from 70 to DO cents a thousand.
It Is far better than the average girl worker, and affords many
a bit of neck and hair finery with which she adds to her
attractions.
To make 2,000 clgarets a day. however, requires the utmost
dexterity, and a never flagging speed kept up usually through
six days of the week except the Saturday, or the Jewish
Sunday. I'nllke the elgarctmaker of New York, she Is not
compelled to rest on Sunday and Is glad to add the extra sum
to a wage which Is considerably below the New York average.
Although she can make both kinds, she usually works
on the " Russian clgaret " or that with the mouthpiece, which
Is In demand In the district. A little piece of paper the length
of the tube is glued at one edge to the bench at which she
sits. With a rapidity which the eye can scarcely follow, she
lays the piece of tissue paper which Is already cut on this,
drops a pinch of tobacco on It, rolls It Instantly by means of
the Ifttle paper roller, and with one and the same motion
crowds In the tobacco and fits on the mouthpiece. The
scissors then snip off the protruding tobacco, and the tube Is
laid straight with the rest of the pile.
Radiant at Her Night School.
When It Is considered that her day Is made up of long
hours of this toll, and that she never flags In the greatest
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swiftness that It Is possible for the eye and hand to execute,
the appearance of the cig.irct girl as one comes out arrayed
for the evening's recreation Is a matter of ns'loniahmer.i.
Her eyes shine and she Is radiant with d light, not becaust
she Is r-ady fur guyeties popularly siipwsrd to be affected y
lier kind, but because she Is going to night sdhool. This
charm d place to which come most of the young people In
the neighborhood, and where she will learn to " spoil k the
English," is the goal to which the lately arrived nlcotin.:
worker turns with the rest of her countrymen.
I'ntil she has learned to speak, this Is the greatest delight
she knows, ami the wlldness usually associated with her clius
Is entirely lacking. The most of her earnings she gives duti
fully to her father and mother, while as to smoking, a Jewish
clgaret girl who would smoke a clgaret herself, would be a
horror to all her countrymen In the Ghetto.
Devoted to Her Leader of Fashion.
Only In the fact that she has a taste for gay clothes and
has bright eyes, whloh she can use tellingly. Is she anything
like the famous Carmen. In her pomimdour and the extrava
gance of her hair, as she has It arranged In the evenlsg. Is
also a suggestion of the real Carmen, and the wonderful way
In which she has grasped thv secrets of fashionable hair
dressing la a revelation to those who remember that the
clgaret girl Is only a year or two from Kurope. In other
things, too. in her shirtwaists and collars, and In her general
style, this little Immigrant whe n dressed In her best, is not
unlike the average shop girl. Strange as this seems, espe
cially when contrasted with the dress of the older Jewlsn
women, It Is explained by a curious fact.
For the young woman of the Ghetto, there Is a glorious
leader of fashion, a person who Is closely watched and rever
ently Imitated. It Is the beautiful heroine who plays at tho
neighboring theaters, and whose every new trick of halrdolng.
or wearing her tie, her hat, or her belt. Is copied with all
possible speed through the Ghetto.
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A collapsible thea
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folded into a minute
space, and when ne
cessary will reassume
Its former symmetry,
has been Invented by
a London milliner for
the benefit of her sex.
Die hat, which has
been patented, is
nade on an ingenious
framework, which
can be covered with
pliable straw, chif
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deed, any material
lave velvet, which
would crush too much
This passenger coach, known as the " shad belly," was one of the first ever run In
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a game our grandpar
ents used to play when
they were children.
The player sat down
on a cushion, clasped
his hands about his
knees, and at a one!
two! and three! rolled
over. The trick Is to
sit up agdin with
out unclasping the
hands.
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A dentist of Bordeaux did not feel that he
could leave his business long enough to go to
Purls and have the new spectacles that he
needied fitted to hie nose, which was of a
peculiar shape. But he hit upon the Ingenious
scheme of having a mask of his face made,
and. sending It to the optician, together with
the numbers of the lenses that he used.
A MARINE GRAVEYARD.
On Aug. 1 each year the people of Val dl Rose. In rural Italy, gather In the public
square and elect the most Intelligent man to oirtclate at the exorcising of the devil. An
effigy of the evil one Is attached to a fire balloon and liberated, after which the peasantry
believe they will be free from malign Influence for the rest of the year.
AUTO HANDCAR. MINE.
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Rallroad track Inspectors are beginning to
use this type of automobile In looking over
the roadbed.
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tTifil, J also be modeled In any
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Advance of dvlllsa- I !e
tlon Is decreasing the gggrg J i V5
number of prairie l
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Tlie marriage arch Is an li toptant and
conspicuous feature of a Negrito wedding. At
one tage of the eln borate ceremony t ht bride-'
M"'im Is expected to seise his dusky bride
i i 1 corry her In his arms up a difficult bani
lai ladder to a high platform surmounted by
wickets of bamboo.
ESPARTO GRASS.
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Maj. Gen. George L. Gillespie, assistant to
the chief of staff of the army, has been
granted a patent on the design for the new
medal of honor. This Is the final step to be
taken by the officials of the wur department
to Insure the exclusive use of this particular
design to veterans who, by their valor on
the Meld of battle, merited high distinction
and were decorated by their country with
U medal of honor.
Prof, radian., an Italian anthropologist,
ban made a study of the compartive physical
development of the rich and the poor among
his countrymen. This chart, showing the
average stature of botlt classes, reveals that
the odd are In favor of the rich from In
fancy, Hnd that they assume a constant ad
vance after the age of I.'!, when the pior be
gin hard manual labor.
From esparto grass, grown in southerniRu
rope and Spain, are manufactured printing
paper, cordage, shoes, matting, baskets, nets
mattresses, etc. Espartero, the celebrated
Spanish bull fighter, was so called becaune
his father wss a dealer In this grass.
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