There are woman wageearners in the Umted States, and of these 3,670,00.0, or 42 per cent., are under the age of twenty-five. More women are engaged in domestic service than in any other occupation. Most young women in smaller towns and cities’ take to light manufacturing work, while in large cities they _ form the majority of those employed in department stores and offices._ In those lines of endeavor opportunity to marry seems more likely to offer than in domestic service. -Tlio I'pct that so many millions of young women are now employed at comfortably high wages is held (rays the ‘American’) to account for the vast increase in the total sum spent in that country for articles of women’s dress, silk stockings, gloves, cosmetics, perfumes, and other luxuries in tho way of personal adornment.
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Evening Star, Issue 19064, 6 October 1925, Page 10
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134Page 10 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Star, Issue 19064, 6 October 1925, Page 10
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