She was dressed as a work-girl also, but in striped silk with a real lace apron and a few diamonds.

Only, if a poor working-girl don't want to make it everybody's darn business, she can't run around with the fast rich boys of this town and then get invited to help hem the altar-cloth.

One was surely a work-girl, delicate and pretty though she looked, so thin, so pale too, and with so wild an air that he remembered a paragraph he had lately read in a newspaper, recounting how another such girl, after forsaking her child, had thrown herself into the river.

Some anonymous letters, the low, treacherous revenge of a dismissed servant, apprised her of Beauchene's former intrigue with Norine, that work-girl who had given birth to a boy, spirited away none knew whither.

"In this room lived a poor work-girl, young and pretty.

"This desertion coincided with the glorious revolution of the 18th of March; and the poor work-girl, who had still room in her heart for patriotism, found some consolation in reflecting that the day, so miserable for her, had at least brought happiness to France.

"If you could only keep that ring of truth that's in your voice for your platform utteranceswhy, in less than no time you could afford to feed your Afro-Americans on nightingales' tongues and clothe every working-girl in the land in cloth of gold!

Servant or mistress, girl or wife, lady or work-girl, young or old, courtesan from a drawing-room or the pavement, one takes her, has one's pleasure of her, and goes away.

But how much better had you loved a simple work-girl, whose affections you could have beguiled by offering her a penn'orth of fried potatoes and a seat among the gods to see a melodrama.

He turned round and saw a work-girl in a little black hat with blue ribbons.

"Mine," observed the work-girl to Jean, "are carnations, and I have birds toocanaries they are.

The work-girl went on: "I have a pair,you understand, to keep each other company.

" When Ralph walked back to the Tolbridge piazza he found the working-girl sitting there, waiting for him.

" "Did you ever hear of the Pike family that robbed all the orphans, tore down the starry banner, walked on the humble working-girl and gave the double cross to the common people?

When she saw Mrs. Baxter, with her jetty hair, jeweled collar, and eyes a trifle too saurian for perfect beauty, she at once saw a subscription to the working-girl's club.

She went on: "I wish every working-girl in New York could read this.

And surely no one will deny that the degrading industrial conditions under which such a large number of our young girls live and work do all of these, do limit and narrow the range of selection and do lower the standards of the working-girl in making her marriage choice.

The working-girl needs no chaperon, but equally with her wealthier sister, she does require and ought to receive motherly care and oversight.

The young woman who has entered medicine, or law, or dentistry, who paints pictures or writes books, is on very much the same economic basis as the young working-girl.

Not a few professional women, writers, and speakers, have gone on to infer that a similar solution was at hand for the working-girl on her marriage.

No similar demand should be logically made of the working-girl today when she demands coeducation on industrial lines.

Nay, the young working-girl is even "her own worst competitorthe competitor against her own future home, and as wife and mother she may have to live on the wage she herself has cheapened.

If he had given the second figure a thought as he recognized his old friend, it was to suppose her some working-girl who had conducted the stranger to the place.

Poor Lucy was the work-girl enfeebled by sweating, weakened from her birth by poverty.

The department-store clerk considers herself a higher social being than the ordinary working-girl, and in a way she is justified.