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Fighting a Swarm of Locusts - Doreen Milstead
Fighting a Swarm of Locusts: A Mail Order Bride Romance
By
Doreen Milstead
Copyright 2015 Susan Hart
Synopsis: A garment factory worker, not a fan of insects, heads out to a farmer in Nebraska, where the area appears to be under an imminent threat of attack by locusts, at least if the couple are to believe a crazy beekeeping old man who dresses up in a giant locust costume, and who keeps on yelling They’re coming
every chance he gets.
Monday, March 10, 1890
New York City—Mid-Morning
Print Shirtwaist, Inc.
New York, New York
Sophie Veilleux, twenty-one, redhead and a French immigrant wiped her brow and continued to press the men's waist shirt in front of her. Monday started another workweek and Sophie needed the money. Her boss walked by and stopped.
We work harder over here, Miss Sophie Veilleux, than the French do I suspect.
I'm going as fast as I can. It's so hot in here. Can't we open the windows or something?
No. It's against our company rules.
He knelt down next to her like he was her best male friend and continued, If you want you can leave and take a breath of fresh air outside--forever.
No. Mr. Galley. I need this job. I hope to move out of the crowded tenement house on 48th Street next year.
Mr. Mario Galley nodded. That's the good American spirit. Work your way out of poorer circumstances.
Mr. Galley stood up. He lifted his pants in a leering way. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Make something of yourself.
My motto is if a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
I always tell my girls after they quit, not that you're going to quit on me, Sophie...
I'm not going to quit, Mr. Galley.
If you can work at the Print Shirtwaist, Inc., you can work anywhere, overcome any circumstances.
Sophie stared helplessly as Mr. Galley made his way, stalking slowly pass other crowded White Shirt press workers. Waist making was a new field of work. As more people, including women office workers grew, they needed shirtwaists as their office uniform. These new white-collar workers, included women in positions as stenographers, switchboard operators, like her sister, Capucine, salesgirls, office clerk and schoolteachers.
Women's shirtwaist dresses paired with a long dark work skirt became the fashion dress for women everywhere. And even out west women picked up the simple, neat fashion stable finally popularized by the Gibson Girl photograph in Godey's Fashion Magazine.
Men wore shirtwaists too. Only, their fabric was thicker. Most of the women in the east moved off the rural farms into the cities into the cloak making profession. Sophie was only a child when her dad, Aymon, moved from France to America for work. He worked in an office as a machine designer. Every day Sophie worked on a men's waist shirt, she imagined her dad buying it in the department store. This kept Sophie's spirit up.
She wanted to be a cutter or designer of the shirt. In this way, she could possibly learn to make her own clothes and more importantly, is able to support and save money for herself. But men waist shirt workers held all the high-end jobs like cutters. Sophie became a trimmer, then worked her way up to operator. There were the finishers, but that bored Sophie once she saw her best friend Amy, an Italian girl, doing it. Most of the female waist shirt workers were Italian.
Over one hundred workers crowded on one floor of the ten-story building. Hundreds more work worked on other floors sewing the shirts together, sleeves, thick white collars and buttons; shirts worn by the American