Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1912 — Make Women Clean Streets. [ARTICLE]

Make Women Clean Streets.

Of the many systems of street cleaning adopted by various countries that used by the French government of Porto Novo, Dahomey, West Africa, is most economical. The native police examine the streets, and at any part which requires cleaning they stop the women and girls who happen to be passing at the time, and order them to sweep the rubbish into heaps. The men are exempt ftrom this ua*paid work, as, naturally, it would interfere and retard the trade es the colony.