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Excerpt from A Spool of Thread and How It Is Made
And mutely does as much spinning in a day as she could do in ten years, besides doing it better. It has not, however, thrown woman out of work. It has merely changed the nature of her occupation, so that she is now able to give to mak ing clothes the time formerly given to spinning the yarn the clothes were to be made oi, and the increase of cleanliness that has come from this cheapening and increase of clothing has been an important factor in improving the physical and moral health of the people.
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