Identifier: ladieshomejourna65janwyet (find matches)
Title: The Ladies' home journal
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945
Subjects: Women's periodicals Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive
Publisher: Philadelphia : (s.n.)
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Once I made $3 in one day. I try to get a shine I can see myself in, he says. His average days take is about $1. SHOESHINE BOY By JOAN YOUNGER City-born, city-bred, he whiles away his early years the best he can, against the day when he becomes a man. ON the cold rock island of Manhattan where the southern tip of New York City bulges into the East River, hundreds upon thousands of families live crowded upward into stone houses scarred with iron fire escapes and battered by wind and rain and sleet and snow. To walk through one of these streets is to walk in a valley of dirty stone and mortar, neon and merchandise; to peer into it is to peer into a poor mans chasm of noise and empty echo; to play in it is at once joy and torture, danger and delight. In one of these streets, just off First Avenue, lives Frederick Peter Wagner. He was thirteen last summer; he is a member of the Boys Club and the Boy Scouts, and every Sunday morning without fail he goes to Mass at 9 A.M. His hair is the color and ...

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