item: #1 of 14 id: 14762 author: Optic, Oliver title: Now or Never; Or, The Adventures of Bobby Bright: A Story for Young Folks date: None words: 45934 flesch: 87 summary: It is true Bobby did not think of any of these things; though, if he had, it would have made no difference with him. The book business is good just now, isn't it? continued Bobby, without clearly comprehending the meaning of the other's last remark. keywords: bayard; bobby; books; boy; bright; business; day; dollars; father; good; hardhand; hero; home; house; lady; lee; man; money; mother; pay; sir; squire; thing; thought; time; tom; want cache: 14762.txt plain text: 14762.txt item: #2 of 14 id: 15218 author: Van Vorst, John, Mrs. title: The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls date: None words: 70167 flesch: 83 summary: Despite Uncle Tom's opposition to mill work for women, despite his cognizance of the unhealthfulness of the mills, he knew a thing or two when he put his strapping innocent niece to work thirteen hours a day and pocketed himself the spoils. Groups of Italian women crooned to each other in their soft voices over the bargains for babies displayed at the spring opening; factory girls compared notes, chattered, calculated, tried to resist, and ended by an extravagant choice; the German women looked and priced and bought nothing; the Hungarians had evidently spent their money on arriving. keywords: american; away; bed; black; brown; cents; children; class; clothes; cotton; country; day; door; effort; eyes; face; factory; floor; food; girl; good; hair; half; hand; head; home; hours; house; job; kind; labour; left; life; little; look; lynn; machine; men; mill; money; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; noon; pay; people; perry; place; poor; rest; room; table; things; time; toil; town; way; week; white; woman; work; working; world; years cache: 15218.txt plain text: 15218.txt item: #3 of 14 id: 16964 author: Lutz, R. R. (Rufus Rolla) title: Wage Earning and Education date: None words: 44566 flesch: 56 summary: | | Women | keywords: boys; cent; city; classes; cleveland; course; education; elementary; employment; girls; high; industrial; instruction; machine; men; number; occupations; public; pupils; school; school course; school work; shop; table; technical; time; total |; trade; trade school; training; wage; women; work; workers; working; years; | | cache: 16964.txt plain text: 16964.txt item: #4 of 14 id: 19473 author: Optic, Oliver title: Now or Never; Or, The Adventures of Bobby Bright date: None words: 48415 flesch: 87 summary: It is true Bobby did not think of any of these things; though, if he had, it would have made no difference with him. The book business is good just now, isn't it? continued Bobby, without clearly comprehending the meaning of the other's last remark. keywords: annie; bayard; bobby; books; boy; bright; business; day; dollars; father; good; hardhand; hero; home; house; lady; lee; man; men; mind; money; morning; mother; pay; riverdale; sir; squire; thought; time; timmins; tom; want cache: 19473.txt plain text: 19473.txt item: #5 of 14 id: 20071 author: Meade, L. T. title: Sue, A Little Heroine date: None words: 76570 flesch: 92 summary: If he's the son of my old friend, more than ever is he my care now; and you this evening, little Connie, shall tell me your story. Purty little Connie? keywords: agnes; anderson; boy; child; children; come; connie; day; dear; door; eyes; face; father; fire; fur; giles; girl; good; great; harris; heart; home; john; little; look; man; mother; mrs; night; pickles; poor; ronald; room; sue; thought; time; voice; warren; wery; wot; yer cache: 20071.txt plain text: 20071.txt item: #6 of 14 id: 20080 author: Dyer, Gertrude P. title: Little Pollie Or a Bunch of Violets date: None words: 18439 flesch: 82 summary: Poor little Pollie lies sick and ill at home, so pale and thin one would scarcely recognise in that wan little face the Pollie of last spring-time! Poor child, poor little child, murmured the lady compassionately. keywords: child; day; dear; face; flanagan; girl; god; good; heart; home; mother; mrs; pollie; poor; sally; time; yer cache: 20080.txt plain text: 20080.txt item: #7 of 14 id: 21726 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines date: None words: 94660 flesch: 72 summary: Do you hear, little man? Other men were in that part of the mine at the time, and the brothers found that a message had been sent to one of the captains requesting him to come and examine the place, as the men were becoming uneasy at the increasing flow of water from the walls. keywords: air; baby; botallack; boy; captain; clearemout; cornish; course; cuttance; dan; day; deep; donnithorne; end; eyes; face; feet; gentleman; good; half; hand; head; house; john; land; left; let; level; life; look; maggot; man; men; miner; moment; mrs; night; oliver; place; point; rock; rose; round; sea; shaft; sur; tell; time; tin; tregarthen; trembath; uncle; water; way; went; work; youth; zackey cache: 21726.txt plain text: 21726.txt item: #8 of 14 id: 23355 author: Aldrich, Thomas Bailey title: The Little Violinist date: None words: 3003 flesch: 72 summary: I hardly dared glance at them, up there in the air, hanging by their feet from the swinging bar, twisting their fragile spines and distorting their poor little bodies, when they ought to have been nestled in soft blankets in a cosey chamber, with the angels that guard the sleep of little children hovering above them. Pitiful little children, whose tender limbs and minds are so torn and strained by thoughtless task-masters, that it seems scarcely a regrettable thing when the circus caravan halts awhile on its route to make a small grave by the wayside. keywords: boys; charley; children; hand; night; talbot cache: 23355.txt plain text: 23355.txt item: #9 of 14 id: 35757 author: Anonymous title: Our Katie date: None words: 4286 flesch: 73 summary: As may already have been inferred, Katie's parents were extremely poor, with a large family of small children to support; and the father being out of employment much of the time, they often wanted even the necessaries of life, and it was no uncommon thing for Katie to go supperless and hungry to bed. The last Sabbath Katie ever passed on earth found her in her usual place; but her sad look attracted the attention of her teacher, who kindly inquired the cause. keywords: home; katie; life; love; sabbath; school cache: 35757.txt plain text: 35757.txt item: #10 of 14 id: 37981 author: Alcott, Louisa May title: May Flowers date: None words: 12894 flesch: 81 summary: It was all new and charming to us young ones, but poor old Joe had a hard time, and was very ill. I shall probably have a class of dirty little girls, and teach them how to sew, as I can't do anything else. keywords: anna; day; girls; good; help; home; little; look; mamma; papa; poor; shop; things; time; work cache: 37981.txt plain text: 37981.txt item: #11 of 14 id: 39291 author: Bray, Reginald Arthur title: Boy Labour and Apprenticeship date: None words: 66050 flesch: 63 summary: | Manufacturing | Small Urban | | | | Districts. Below is given the summary for the two years: +----------------------------------------------------------+ | | Skilled.| Unskilled.| Higher | | | | |Education.| |-------------------------|---------|-----------|----------| | Number | 8,662 | 15,910 | 1,524 | | Percentage | 33·2 | 61·0 | 5·8 | | Percentage, 1906-07 | 28·5 | 67·9 | 3·6 keywords: act; age; apprenticeship; apprenticeship system; boy labour; boys; cent; children; committee; conditions; day; education; elementary; employers; employment; general; half; home; hours; industrial; labour; law; london; occupations |; report; school; school age; state; supervision; system; time; trade; training; work; workshop; years; | -|; | boy; | number; | parent; | | cache: 39291.txt plain text: 39291.txt item: #12 of 14 id: 4296 author: Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) title: Friarswood Post Office date: None words: 68793 flesch: 83 summary: And what's your name?' 'Alfred King, Sir,' was the answer. Where be'est going? says I. To doctor's, says he, arter some stuff for Alfred King. keywords: alfred; boy; boys; brother; coming; cope; day; ellen; eyes; face; farmer; good; harold; head; help; home; hope; jane; king; lady; like; little; look; mind; miss; mother; mrs; paul; poor; sir; tell; thought; time; way; work cache: 4296.txt plain text: 4296.txt item: #13 of 14 id: 43111 author: Dickens, Charles title: The Personal History of David Copperfield date: None words: 364174 flesch: 81 summary: I further proposed to interest Mr. Micawber in Mr. Peggotty, by confiding so much of Mr. Peggotty's story to him as I might feel justified in relating, or might think expedient; and to endeavour to bring each of them to bear upon the other, for the common advantage. I took Mr. Micawber aside that same night, and confided to him the task of standing between Mr. Peggotty and intelligence of the late catastrophe. keywords: agnes; arm; aunt; barkis; bed; boy; business; chair; child; coming; copperfield; course; creakle; davy; day; days; deal; dear; dick; dinner; doctor; door; dora; doubt; em'ly; evening; eyes; face; family; father; fellow; fire; friend; gentleman; going; good; half; ham; hand; having; head; heart; heep; home; hope; hour; house; kind; know; lady; leave; left; let; letter; life; little; long; looking; love; making; man; manner; master; micawber; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; murdstone; night; peggotty; people; place; poor; present; pretty; room; round; school; sir; sitting; sort; spenlow; stairs; state; steerforth; strong; suppose; table; things; think; thought; time; traddles; trotwood; uriah; voice; want; way; wickfield; wife; window; wish; woman; words; work; world; years; young cache: 43111.txt plain text: 43111.txt item: #14 of 14 id: 44396 author: Clopper, Edward Nicholas title: Child Labor in City Streets date: None words: 61153 flesch: 62 summary: This is shown in the following table:-- ============================================== AGES |BACKWARD | NORMAL | AHEAD | TOTAL -----------+---------+--------+-------+------- 10 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 12 11 | 22 | 11 | 1 | 34 12 | 42 | 16 | 1 | 59 13 | 48 | 24 | 0 | 72 +---------+--------+-------+------- Totals | 118 | 57 | 2 | 177 Percentages| 67% | 32% | 1% | 100% =============================================== This table shows that of the 177 newsboys ten to thirteen years of age, 67 per cent are backward and 32 per cent are normal, while only 1 per cent are ahead of their grades. +==============================+==========================================+ |School attended: | Location: | +-------------------------+----+----------+-------------------------------+ |Informant: | Grade: | Years in school: | +-------------------------+---------------+-------------------------------+ |Boy's standing in Good Fair Poor *| Conduct: Good Fair Poor *| |school work: Poor | | keywords: + =; 2d |; 3d |; = +; = =; = city; = school; = |; a.m. |; age; american |; battery |; boys |; children; committee; employment; follows:[28]- =; german |; hours; italian |; labor; laws =; living |; newsboys; newspapers; ordinances =; report; street; street trading; street work; table:[106]- =; totals =; traders =; trading; work; working; years |; | +; | =; | baskets; | boy; | fruit; | girls; | officers; | p.m.; | retarded; | vegetables; | |; | ||; |publica |; || | cache: 44396.txt plain text: 44396.txt