Excerpt from Life in Our Villages
Of course they do. A Baptist minister gave me a striking illustration of the influence of the young women in assisting the draining of the country Of its labourers. Before he came into his present ministry, he was in charge Of a church in a village, where pillow-lace-making was a staple industry of the people, and while it lasted they were thriving, and the church was prosperous. But foreign competition, or something else, ruined the lace-making. Things grew worse and worse, till twelve hours of close working wouldn’t pay twopence. Every girl in the place Who was good for anything at all - eighty or ninety per cent. - flitted into the towns, and all the young men followed.
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