DOMESTIC INDUSTRIES.
Although domestic industries are very promi nt in France, it is difficult to locate them be use in so many places they are annexed to e great industries. For example, in the tex e industries a certain number of localities, ch as the environs of Lille and the manufac ring town of Cambrai, flax linen has its home; the workmen use all their skill to get suitable thread from their employers, and then, after weighing it, they take it home; so also in Saint Etienne the manufacture of silk ribbon is made in great part in the homes of the work men, whose looms work by electricity controlled from a central factory from which the power is distributed; the same is the case in the entire lingerie industry, concentrated in Saint Omer and in Vosges, the work being taken home under the direction of forewomen and con tractors, as is almost all the lace manufactured in Bailleul, le Puy and other localities; and much of the labor of the 1,000 mousseline de coton factories in Tarare.
The large stores where ready-made clothing is sold have in their employ many men and women who do the work at home. In the small industries, as well as in the large, part of the work can be done in the homes of the work men. For instance, all varieties of eArticles de Paris" are usually made away from the factories.
Besides these branches of the chief centres there are other industries that may be con sidered as family industries in the sense that the manufacturer needs only one, two or three workmen at most on each article, like real or imitation jewelry, the manufacture of effer vescents, pharmaceutical specialties, many of which are exported; dyeing and scouring, etc., and numerous others.