The Archive · 1922

Mrs. Eddy, an English-woman

"born in India but educated in England, has been associated with her husband in the study of industrial problems in the United States and abroad, and has been investigating factories in China. In her informal address before these club women she described various industries, beginning with the manufacture of hair-nets, con-tresting the surroundings in one factory just rebuilt to correspond to the hygienic conviction of the foreign owner with others in Chefoo where there was no pretence of sanitation and where dirty women and girls worked in filthy rooms to manufacture nets which ale exported to Europe and the United States.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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