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``The mother with her 3 weeks old infant. Sick unto death herself but sacrificing all her strength to the care of her child. In her ignorance she has the poor little one almost smothered in wraps about the head and uper [sic] body but the poor thing is sitting naked on the cold steel plate of the ship, bare from waist to toe. The young peasant girl from the country with her yellow silk hankerchief [sic] tied about her head, apron of the same color, red shirt, green bodies and the national boots and triffling ornaments of silver about her, sitting thoughtless and stupid on the floor with her legs crossed in Turkish fashion, expressing no want or need, no joy or sorrow; going to America to do farm work of the heaviest kind. She is in her simple needs and accomplishments a desirable emigrant and will raise healthy and good and industrious citizens. The burial at sea which almost caused trouble. An inexperienced officer made the mistake and attempted to bury the child while there were still some of the stearage [sic] passengers on deck (7 pm). This caused considerable disgust and the (bag) had to be taken back to the doctors room. The whird [sic] looking young proletarian, without trade or great desire to do a hard days work ready to complain about any and everything a cronic ___, of revolutionary type___ unclean in dress, body, language and moral. With unsteady eyes, constantly smoking his cigarette, prowling about the boat after dark and imposing on every woman in the steerage." |
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