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As a whole the midinette class is badly fed and therefore delicate and too often a prey to consumption.

The midinettes, the “cash” girls of the great department stores and millinery shops, had no money to contribute, so some one thought of giving them a chance to help the soldiers with their needles.

She too was of her race, alert, vivacious, and as neat as a trivet, as became a former midinette of the rue de la Paix and a daughter of Batignolles.

The solo is Massenet, simon-pure Massenet, the idol of the Paris midinette.

The midinettes were allowed to leave their work.