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`` The girls and the women are all at work and two babies have died this week from pure lack of mother 's care , I might say mother 's milk . Ed Jones ' wife weaned her six-months ' - old baby so she could go in the factory , and left it on condensed milk with old Mrs. Jones , who fed it incessantly and not at all cleanly . Now it is not expected to live . And they dance at the Last Chance until one o'clock almost every night . Is the world mad ? '' `` No , just prosperous , Mother Elsie , '' I answered her as I gave her a large fan and Dabney brought her a tall glass of very cold tea . `` Little old Goodloets is having the same boom that the rest of America is getting from feeding and furnishing the rest of the warring world . ''