Excerpt from The Coraddi, Vol. 30: March, 1926 Women with grey-streaked hair and girls with trim shingle-bobs were already at work behind the long tables on which rows and rows of blue-green glass jars of salve were piled, when the foreman walked heavily into the room. He was followed by a frail, pallid woman in a faded wine-colored suit. As he stopped at one of the long tables to give an order, she stood in bewilderment, watching the pairs of hands at work like accurate machines. When he turned, and muttered to her Down here, she seemed startled, but followed him past the many tables to the further end of the room. He stopped at the last table and addressed the girl at its head. 'new helper, he explained. Show her how to do the work. He turned to the woman and spoke more kindly than he had yet addressed her. She'll show you how to do it, Miss Miss uh, he said; then he added, You'll catch on quick enough. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.