How Can It Be?

The Press, a young and bright newspaper in New York city, has done a serTice to mankind by having a female reporter investígate the eondition of the girls Tvho work in the hotels of that eiiy. This reporter, armed with authority from the city board of health, and provided with an escort, did thorough work. In some of the best hotels on Broadway, revelations were made of a state of affairs more shocking than any exposure of brutality that has jet been made in this country. We are vont to boast of our christian country and civilization, yet euch a story as the Press tells of servant-girl 'life in the New York city hotels is more horrible than anything the Dark Ages have to offer. In oae hotel thirty-three girls sleep in th eellar under the sidewalk, in one sraalï room that had no light excepting íhe Iittle that was straineü mrougn me jlass in the pavement. "The beds were close together that they looked like one long bed. They were made of wood, and the mattresses were stuffed with wood shavings." Everything was Krty. When asked why they didn't ieepa cleaner room, the girls replied that they worked from 5:30 in the moming till 10 o'clock at night, and were too tired after that. In another place, 48girte sleep in underground boxes, in terrible Btench, where the floor is filthy, and vermin are plenty. We have mot "space to teil all of the distressing facts. How can the churches dream of oon-verting the whole world so long a nno aivilixut.inn oroduces such 3nou9 Tils? ín one Ann Arbor church, last Sunáay, the common fatherhood ef God wastaught in so touching words that tears were brought to the eyes of many in the audience. Such a faith can be instilled intothe couifortable classes, but its no use trying to make those hotel seïTant girls understand it.