The men have the saloons, political clubs, trade unions or barber shops, the young people have an occasional ball to go to or a cheap theater...while the mothers have almost no recreation at all, only a dreary round of work day after day with an occasional doorstep gossip to vary the monotony of their lives.

Source: More, Wage Earners' Budgets, 12

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