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SEX IN INDUSTRY.
ciples of error which lie at the root of all branches of wrong.
I believe that the grave mistakes of our labor system, as affecting the class of females considered, are, —
First , That we employ those therein whose years absolutely prohibit their being employed at labor at all.
Second, That their hours of labor are too long; and, —
Third, That we sadly neglect the measures that are adaptable to insure a correct sanitary condition of our operatives during their labor.
Under one or the other of these cardinal forms of error, all the specific evils of different occupations or circumstances will arrange themselves.
No child or young person of either sex, under the age of fifteen years, should ever be engaged in any form of industrial employ necessitating absence from school, or a draft on vital energy. The normal position of those of that age is in the work of educa-