4/21 There seem to be so many causes at work just now. "Tell me what has brought this into your mind." "Some of the girls in our class," she said, "are out of work, and those who have anything to do seem to be working themselves almost to death to keep their parents or somebody dependent upon them. Two of them I am anxious about. I have been trying to find them this afternoon. I have heard things, Mr.Brooks, which have made me ashamed--sick at heart--ashamed to go home and think how we live, while they die. |