CARL SANDBURG wrote a poem. It is called "Working
Girls":

The working girls in the morning are going to work --
long lines of them afoot amid the downtown stores
and factories, thousands with little brick-shaped
lunches wrapped in newspapers under their arms.

Each morning as I move through this river of young-
woman life I feel a wonder about where it is all go-
ing, so many with a peach blossom of young years
on them and laughter of red lips and memories in
their eyes of dances the night before and plays and
walks. . . .

And a man employed by Sears wrote a piece of advertising
copy:

The Chicago Typewriter. An Up to Date Typewriter for
only $35.00. . . . It has 32 keys which print 90 dif-
ferent characters, the maximum reached by any type-
writer; is fitted with the universal key board and a
steel type wheel.

These type wheels are interchangeable, and in less than a
minute's time can be changed, not only as to style of
letter, but also from one language to another, and to
the medical and mathematical wheels.

This was in 1905, but already the "river of young-woman
life" was flowing in ever-greater volume down the streets of
the cities, the leafy lanes of small towns aspiring to be cities,
and in hamlets that yearned to be small towns. The particles

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