Evening star., 1886-09-18
copyright, 1861
PART IL

plnZ ais legs Win some Oh tue ointment the
doctor had given her; "oh. no." says she. at
don't look near So bad as that. shall have to
fad some work To- do, to pay our expenses till
you get work. That's all" says she.
That's what she said; and she meant it.
Every day for more than week, she went
about, hunting high and low for work She
reckoned on getting, some washing and sewing
10 do; but she didn't meet with what you
might call brilliant success, on account OF
this how, that she wasn't acquainted with no
rich folks, and the folks she was acauainte ed
wtth-neighbors, chiefy-was pretty much In
the same box as herself, and done their own
washing and sewing. At the end ofthat there
week she begun to get rather DISCOURAGED
when all of q sudden dav, she struck
what she thought oil. Outside of a
kind OF missionary building in Di-
vision street. she seen sign, which read:
"Work given to respectable and INDECENT
females" IN she walks, and asks for work.
The people In charge there. they made her sign a
printed form, in the way of an application an
then they asked her for her references. She
said she didn't have none. They said that her
respectability would have to be established be-
fore they could give her any work, and that in
day or two their agent would call upon her
10 investigate II. So in day or two, sure
enough, their agent, sort of a parson, guess,
he called. He looked around the room. and he
talked some with Jake and Hetty, inquiring
they went regular to- cRGreh n suc @ like and
then he went Ch, remarkipg that he was salts
ned aud would report the matter favorably TO
the Committee on Character Hetty asked
when she should go to headquarters 10 get the
work. HE said that she'd receive a notice in
her case.
Well sir. six days later there come a postal
card directing Hetty to- show up at the mission
house You can just believe that she didn I
lose no time about Obeying. The work that
they gave her was seventeen pair of overall
trousers. already cut out and she simply
To sew the pieces together. She worked at them
trousers for considerable more than a week.
Sne had To set up late nights Over EN-. because
during the day her time was pretty well took
MP, cooking. and cleaning the room and nurs-
ing Jake But when finally they was done and
she carried them back to the mission house
now much do you suppose they give her tor
Five dollars, lid you say? You think that
would have been iair pay? Well. them mission
people, they Thought different. They gave her
Oi three cents pair
Hery. sir, H.ity; she was ali broke up. She
cried and cried, till thought she'd actually
cry her eyes out Jake tried hard to comfort
her and cheer her up; but ii wasn't much use
1ecause, the truth is. he himself felt about
lad as she did. Things looked uncommonly
ugly, as you'll allow; especially so since rent
day was coming, and they didn't have the
shadow of "a ten cent piece ill their pockets let
alone the substance OF 1OGr dollars and half
Then besides, they'd been a living OFT cat
meat for the last ten davs; and one of the curl
Gus effects OF eats meat on the system is that it
makes You sort of glum and low spirited if You
eat il steady for any length OF time Don't
know what eats meat is: Well, that's a pet
name given To a Kind of meat which they sell TO
the poor people down on the east side. and
which Il the waste stuff thrown away by the
slaughter houses. It's mighty tough on the
jaws, and 1t ain't got nc particular sweet flavor
lt : cheap ana III nillnS fof the price. and tax
ing il ali in all, it's an Improvement upon star
vation- Jake uor Hetty hadn't either OF them
tasted mining el>e ior going Oh TWO weeks;
rather out-of-so-t5 and ain,-nearted.,
H'wever, they couldn't mend matters to sit
still and fret; and next morning Hetty she
started out again on the hunt work. When
she come holne, says she to- Jake, Jake" says
she. 1--we got something 20 tell you.r
Fire away, dear says Jake.
And then Hetty, she saws this: "Jake." saws
Theayie on The bowery awhIe aso aH Wan,rS af,i
Forty Ladies' and / went in up 10 the boy
office. and asked about it;and i found thai they
wanted them 40 ladies TO stand around the
stage in costume, and joir in the chorus of one
or two songs. in play which is 10 hive its first
performance on Monday night. Ahe fWaaes is
three dollars "a week-5O cents perforniance
And thought you wouldn't MIND, Jake see-
ing how mu.,l 1as ~, We need the money and said
man in TIE boX-office, he said for me TO come
around tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock and
see tne manager. SO II you don't mind. Jake,
and II the manager is willing to take me. why
why, then. Jake, we'll have three dollars a
week regular. Just think OF itr'
We'll, OF course, IL rather went against the
grain TO have He,ty a-standlns about on a Bow
cry stage In costume; but begyars can't he
choosers; and consequently Jake ne said amen:
and on the following morning Hetty she went
around TO the theay Ter. and sees the manager,
week she had 10 go to the rebearsals: and then
finally Monday nigh come and she bsde good
bye to Jake, and trembling as If she'd been the
prima-donna instead of only a chorus-yiri she
started out 10 make her first appearance before
the public.
The play, SIR was about two-thirds over. and
u was in the neighborhood OF haltpast 10
o'clock, and Hetty, sir. she was setting in ono of
the wings, waiting with the rest OF the chorus
tor their turn to come TO go to the front when
rom the street outside. there sounded "a rattliuI
OF wheels. and ringing of bells ami a hula
EaiiCO OF voices, that eyerybeIv an
CINE was passing or its way TO fire. The fire.
man on duty theFe-they have one. you know,
posted behind the sceueS in every theayter-h
stepped TO the door to find our, If me could
where the fire was. and when he come back
pretty soon' ne looked uncommon sickiy about
We'll" asked every one, all together
Its a bad business says ne; 1.-The House a.
Horrors Is burning down.
Hetiy. she was standing right in front of him.
him as plain as you hear me.
w nat? cried she: Them who present
sad aiierward that that word came loud and
;ts sharp as plstol-shot. "W hat:'
Yes, says he, ITS The House o. Horrors the
big tenement-house down in Roosevelt street"
Eetty, tor about one second size stood MS strT
a. E she'd been turned into stone. rteu sud-
Heiii!, she give jump; and in less time Than il
i;thes me 10 teii IL To you. sir. she was out of
that there theayter a-dashing down the Bow
cry. on the way hOme as isst her tear and
her love could bear her Jake. her husband was
iySing a-Oed on the sixth story of that burning
hou>e, paraiy zed by the rheumatism and no
more able TO save himself than three-weeks-
t'N NElt>s size got there time
toGd God. SIR that thought. the poets saw
tent wings To neT feet.
Well, she dashed along and by and bv sba
EeicheC the edge OF the crowd that was gath
cred 10 see the fire, and through. thai crowd
She. in her tights and span.le>, fought her ysav
III WASH no easy work / can tell you. or the
people wyts packed as close a. sardines In n box.
ana BESIDES her being rigeed out in that the,y-
ter costume, made them stop and stare with as
foE.ishmenI, Instead OF giving way before. her
as she kept shouting to them to- do i,ut She
used her teeth and her nails and her fists and
her elbows, as well as her vOicC;and the Thought
Oh Jake ; peril give her ten times her ordinary
strength, ana at last size reached the line ~ mere
Inc Policemen was stationed, 10 keep a clear
space tor The firemen work In. THEM pnllce-
iaen, they was Tor stopping her. Lord, SIR
they might as well have hoped to- stop a wnirl.
wind. She showed them aside as easy a. IL
theyd been siual children. aud she rushed
ahead till she come up To where about hall a
doz, Ia hook-and-adder men was working some
ten feet away from the outside door OF the
House o Horrors. Ihenn-keepng as cool as
she knew how-them she spoke to-
My husband. says she, down on his back
with infiammatory rheumatsm-fn bed-on
the sixth noor. For Gods sake, some one, save
save him.
Thetn fremen. they looked at her. and they
seen tnat she wasn't ioO.ins But then they
pointed 10 the front OF the house, aad. "Impos-
sio4t, says they NO man can 20 inside there
now. Its full OF flame aS n f,rnace IL
your husband didn't get out with the rest oil the
People. ne n gomez There's no use trying
ne sixth Hoor fell in hall s,l. hour ago.
nat ~fsii they said: ami they spoke reason
livery WINDOW OF that burning house as fietty
seen clear enough, was spouIing water like "A