stuff gown, you pay 8.4.0, which is four mills more than double . What do you allow a laboring woman who works on a farm?”
“Two mills a day.”
“Very good; we allow but half as much; we pay her only a tenth of a cent a day; and — ”
“Again ye’re conf — ”
“Wait!
Now, you see, the thing is very simple; this time you’ll understand it. For instance, it takes your woman 42 days to earn her gown, at 2 mills a day — 7 weeks’ work; but ours earns hers in forty days — two days short of 7 weeks. Your woman has a gown, and her whole seven weeks wages are gone; ours has a gown, and two days’ wages left, to buy something else with. There —