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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Emma McChesney & Co. by Edna Ferber: speak of girls who work as Working Girls. Neither do they use
the term Laboring Class, as one would speak of a distinct and
separate race, like the Ethiopian.
Emma McChesney Buck was no exception to this rule. Her fifteen
years of man-size work for a man-size salary in the employ of the
T. A. Buck Featherloom Petticoat Company, New York, precluded
that. In those days, she had been Mrs. Emma McChesney, known
from coast to coast as the most successful traveling saleswoman
in the business. It was due to her that no feminine
clothes-closet was complete without a Featherloom dangling from
one hook. During those fifteen years she had educated her son,
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