Her rent for the one little room is one dollar
per week. It is idle to say that this firm is com-
pelled to do this by competition, for the material
and making of these aprons cost less than ten
cents, and the firm retails them ordinarily at
tiventy-five cents apiece. On cloaks she did
better, receiving from fifty to seventy-five cents
apiece, she furnishing her own sewing-silk and
cotton. On these she could make, by working
from seven A. M. till eleven p. M., nearly a
dollar a day, but she could never get more than
six cloaks a week, so that the income for the
week was about the same.
