Excerpt from Life and Light for Woman, Vol. 49: December, 1919 The second trip took us to the show factory of Osaka, a city of factories. The muslin factory which we saw is run by a Christian manager, and the women who spend both day and night in the enclosure are' under the eye of a sweet-faced, earnest matron. But here is the situation: women working seven days in the week in two shifts of twelve hours each, with one hour off during that time in addition to the few minutes for lunch. There is a hospital well cared for in which there were 150 sick girls;. There is a recreation hall for occasional enter tainments, and there is a very limited space between the buildings for walks; there is well-cooked food, a clean dormitory where ten girls Sleep in a room fifteen by eighteen, their places taken by another group during the day, and that is all. And this is the show factory where girls live under as good, if not better, conditions than at home. We could not get permission to enter one of the worst factories, as the managers would not have time to clean up. This is another big possibility, and some day we hope Miss Curtis' dream may come true, that with additional workers and funds we may, in co-operation with the American Board, establish a big institutional church in that neighborhood, and fill up some of the emptiness in these young lives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.