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return home every day, the less so as the hours of 

 labour are usually long. So they stay all the week 

 at the factory, in barracks, and they only return home 

 on Saturday evening ; while at sunrise on Monday 

 a waggon makes the tour of the villages, and brings 

 them back to the factory. Barrack life not to 

 mention its moral consequences soon renders the 

 girls quite unable to work in the fields. And, when 

 they are grown up, they discover that they cannot 

 maintain themselves at the low wages offered by the 

 factory ; but they can no more return to peasant life. 

 It is easy to see what havoc the factory is thus doing 

 in the villages, and how unsettled is its very existence, 

 based upon the very low wages offered to country 

 girls. It destroys the peasant home, it renders the 

 life of the town worker still more precarious on account 

 of the competition it makes to him ; and the trade 

 itself is in a perpetual state of unsettledness. 



Some information about the present state of the 

 small industries in this region will be found in the text ; 

 but, unfortunately, we have no modern description of 

 the industrial life of the Lyons region, which we might 

 compare with the above. 



V. SMALL INDUSTRIES AT PARIS. 



It would be impossible to enumerate here all the 

 varieties of small industries which are carried on at 

 Paris ; nor would such an enumeration be complete, 

 because every year new industries are brought into 

 life. I therefore will mention only a few of the most 

 important industries. 



A great number of them are connected, of course, 

 with ladies' dress. The confections that is, the 



