Word: child
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...much their own sense of personal injustice, but that of the great mass of womankind. Women have to pay every kind of tax that is laid, yet they have no hand in electing the officials who make them pay. Even in making laws in regard to infantile paralysis, child labor, free competition of women in business, and social questions of this kind, their opinion is not asked...
...ultimate salvation, after penance in another world, is contingent upon his finding in that last hour and in that town, one believer in all things traditional and holy. The teacher seeks for such a believer. His students laugh him into anger, his wife goes disgruntled to her baking, her child follows her, and all the town makes merry, except one poor individual--the "Fool...
...Henry, had put their five-year-old boy to bed and turned to their dinner, when Simon Lirty--half-brother to Henry and one of those monsters of moral weakness and depravity that make such useful levers in starting melodramas--climbed in through a window and stole the child away. He had begged and borrowed until Henry had at last turned him off, and this was to be his revenge for the "desertion." Nine years later, again on Christmas eve, that other useful dramatic slow-match, the new trained nurse, tells Martha of a man she tended at a hospital...
...Martha finally goes. There in the spinning-room, with its racing machinery and tired children tending the bobbins, she finds two little ones who attract her. Brother and sister they appear to the world, though they have already explained to us that "Skinny" Hinks, the boy, is really the child that Lirty had left when he died in the hospital. The remainder of the act tells of Martha's attempts to secure work in the mill in order to see the children, how the foreman and a director think her an investigator and refuse, and how "Skinny" tries...
...been injured in the machinery. Martha takes him to his cabin and nurses him. From the lips of old Hinks she hears the story of how he took him from a dying man in a hospital who owed him money; and she knows that "Skinny" is her own child...