The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-04-11
THE WORRYING GIRLS.
A CLASS IN THE COMMUNITY WHO
ARE NOT MERE MACHINES.
Two sides to the Question - Fighting
Against Great Odds Noteworthy
incident OF a Bargain Day
Server and Served.


community who are 50 little understood a.
the working girls, People who see them
only IN ttll, capacity arr quite accustomed
10 consider them Is mera machines whose
o!h'e II Is 10 do their bidding and satisfy
their Nants, Not that they are at all con
sSioas Of this feeling, no one would he more
sho ked than they if one were to tell them,
that and they would inveigh against it
most strenuotrsly. Vet, il each one were 10
sit down and make an analysis Of their own
tti7ught,-or perhaps it woull be better to
SLY impressions. since they are scarcely well
enough dytinei 10 be called thoughts
would si% that this assertion is true one
IT, IN the other hand, she were 10 see what
the shop girl thought of her, how she had
taken what SEEMED to the girls self as an
accurate mental and moral measurement,
she would he astonished and often
humiliated
TWO SIDES TO THE QUESTION.
There are two sides TO all questions, and
the shop girl has hcs opinion Of the customer
whom she serves over the counter, which is
in many cases more correct than the opinion
the customer has Of her, il she stops to have
one.
Il wonder how these girls live" was the
careless remark thoughtless young woman
let drop in the hearing Of some Of "these
girls" one day Quite US well a. you ,lo"
was the reply under the breath Of one II
them, rs the hot blood mounted 10 her face
over this uncalled for unkindness. There
was no thought Of malice in the first girls
remark. But her sheltered life had nothing
in it To indicate what the life Of the girl must
be who occupied what seemed to her 50
public" u position. II never occurred to
her that, III many ways, the other girl was
cared for rs she was, but that necessity cont
PEELED her to take her part In the actual
bread winning Of the family.
As rule, the girls are self-resrectng. up
right, honest girls, making the best fight
they can in the battle for existence, fighting
sometimes in the face Of fearful odds, but,
rs u rule, keeping on the winning side, un.
less overcome by sickness or other Unforeseen
calamity.
The shopper is apt to forget that she is but
one Of hundreds who make demands upon
the girls every day. Ii the day has been, m
it often is, Il trying and busy one, il the girls
rasped until sometimes il seems us though
she must cry out in her agony, the late
customer does sometimes have to suffer from
the mediterranean the girl who waits on her.
She does not meet with the ready response to
her wishes that she expects, she is nettled ut
the lack CT interest, and made impatient by
the slowness with which she Is served, and,
without thinking Of what the girl may have
had TO endure before, she enters complaints
Of her incompetency, and inveighs loudly
anil long against the "insufYerable sins" Of
the shop girl.
INCIDENT OF A BARGAIN DAY"
II she would only stop to think, as one
lady did not long since. 1t had been bar.
gain day. widely advertised at one Of the
city establishments The store had been
crowded from early morning, and their had
not been breathing space for the employees,
male or female. Late in the afternoon, dur.
ing the first lull, a lady entered and asked for
certain N ticle; il was carelessly thrown
down to l. :. She looked at il; il was not
quite what she wanted, and she asked for an,
other quality; quick reply was given her in
u not very pleasant tone Of voice. Her own
anger arose, but, looking quickly up, she
caught the tired look in the girls face, and
the gray pallor Of her face. She was
touched in moment Taking a bunch Of
violets from the belt of her dress, she laid
them down before the girl saying in kind
tone: You look tired; wonder if these
wont refresh YOU The girl looked up
in surprise, the blood surged up u
her face the tears rushed to her eyes, and
there was pathetic droop to the mouth.
tired am sorry was cross, but II you
knew how every muscle in my body ached
BY this time she was ready to give mos!
willing service, and both women were better
for the little encounter
If both classes, the server and the served
could learn from this little incident to be
more thoughtful Of each other, the way
would he made palmer for both. II is a
wrong doctrine that teaches that the two are
natural enemies they are not, they are mu
tual helpers. and it would be better for them
selves, for the world generally II they could
come to understand that truth. Each should
be more thoughtful of the other; the one
should see that her duty to her employer
should lead her to give the best service pos
siblc in his interest, the other should fee
that her duty to humanity demands that she
should lc thoughtful Of the feelings Of thoss
who are serving her. and should try to put
herself in their place for little while. anC
think how she would feel II the position,
were reversed Boston Herald.
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