Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1912 — Day of Yankee Mill Girls. [ARTICLE]

Day of Yankee Mill Girls.

“There were very few If any foreigners In the cotton mills when I worked In them here In Biddeford 65 years ago," said an old, old lady In Maine. ' "About all of us were girls from the farms, who came here to work so as to get ready money and buy clothes and help out the folks at home. "One day the overseer hired a girl that had just come over from the old country. We went to him and told him we just wouldn’t work with hug and she had to go. The old scrubwoman that washed the floors was the only outlandish person In our room. “There was who, I suppose now, must have been French-Canadian. She used to sing French songs for us and act them out. We were always coaxing her to do It, because It sounded so funny to hear a language not our own. Such carry-ings-on as we girls had!”