ABSTRACT
Such were the sentiments oflittle Angelina, a seven-year-old girl who spoke with NCLC and National Consumers League activist Mary Van
Kleeck. Angelina worked in her home until ten or eleven o'clock each night making artificial flowers to help her mother earn her sixty cents per day. She was a bright little girl who not only liked school, but wanted to do well there. But how was she to handle her schoolwork when all her after-school hours until late at night were taken up with flowers? Simple enough, she got up early each morning to do her schoolwork. "This morning, first I did the writing, then I did the two times, and then the three times, so I won't have so much to do tomorrow."1
