Her Average Salary

Bronx: I am wondering how many of the 50,000 working girls living apart from their families in New York receive more than $15 a week. Some, of course, but not many. Quite naturally the blue-nosed old maid comes along and insists that our girls are headed toward the crimson path. Is there anything strange in this assertion when one stops to figure their salaries?
CLEM MORRIS.

[“Voice of the People” New York Daily News, November 16, 1923, p.13]