St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-15

While the bonnet matches the mantle OF
dress, as the wearer chooses Black, tar
and brown and dark green mantles are also
worn with various kinds of dresses.
YOU ALL THINK
of type-writing as one of the modern times,
one of the Yankee miracles, but do YOU
know that in New York it is coming to be
regarded as vice? In the metropolis there
is just as much competition in wickednesS
as there is in any of the straightforward
ways of making living, and evil-doers
eagerly seize upon any new thing that
seems likely to give them slight advantage
over the Others who live as they do. My
cousin Tom called my attention to this new
departure several months ago. He under
took a commission for me once when ]
wanted some of my scribbling put into the
most presentable shape. He has an office
in one of the largest office buildings on
Broadway, and he remembered that a Miss
Brown had taken neighbOring room, and
had sent out some neat little circulars call
ing attention to the fact that she was a
young girl without friends in the great
city, venturing to gain an honest liveli-
hood;" so he marched through the portal,
which was labeled Miss Brown, Type
Writing"
there. The office was divided into two
rooms, partitioned apart. In the first half
was a typewriter, desk and couple of
chairs. Miss Brown, a pouting, plump
young woman, with blonde hair at once
led him into the other room, however. 1t
was like ladies' sitting or sewing room,
with its broad, plush coated lounge, its
rocking chair, marble lavateir and center
table, and yet, unlike lady's sitting room,
it contained box of cigars on the table,
and some prints of Bougereau's figures on
the walls. Cousin Tom talked business,
accepted cigar,
TALKED MORE BUSINESS,
and finally was just ready to go, when Miss
Brown walked up to him, and putting up
both hands, patted him on either cheek,
and said: Bring ME all your work, my
dear; l would rather do it for nothing than
lose as handsome customer as yOu."
Now, II my cousin was circumspect, OF
if he had an atom of dignity, he would have
gone straight out and got a policeman and
had that impostor locked up; or at the least
he would have notified all the other tenants
of the building and have them leave in a
body it she was not at once put out-but
no: Tom is always original and always
reckless. He wheeled right about, dropped
into rocking-chair and began to question
Miss Brown without her knowing it until
he had her story.
1t is not for me to repeat, and indeed, !
never needed it or thought of it again until
saw that it was true. and that type-writ-
ing had become mere cloak for the most
shameful goings-on. The wretched girl
said that she had gone to her disgrace
through having learned the business, and
that after that, when she had not known
what way to turn, her destroyer told her
that all the downtown offices were being
used by persons of her class and had given
her money to pay her first months
rent and furnish her apart
ments. She found it to be true,
and Tom has since told me that the evil is
growing worse and worse, until now type
writers are established wherever you go, in
every law Office, brokers' office and whole
sale store, and that in buildings where each
of hundred offices has one. there are as
many as twelve or twenty in addition in
business for themselves, the transparent fact
being that there could not probably be work
for half the number.
But the evil came home to me in curious
way. l had maid, moderately pretty
clOd-hopper of girl, who left me quite
unexpectedly few weeks ago, and to-
tally disappeared from my ken and that of
her relatives and friends. Suddenly, the
other day, was called into my drawing
room to see lady caller. found there
MY FORMER MAID,
now shining with paint, powdered thckly,
and weighted down with ridiculous jewelry.
why Minnie" l exclaimed, lyon appear
to be very prosperous"
To my surprise she burst into tears.
''Yah, madam" she sobbed; Il vos
gwide PROSPEROUS. l hat been rulnedp
"Well," said 1, with freezing and I'M
affected severity, lean you explain why
you have dared to come here?"
She then had the effrontery to say that
she wanted me to get her type-writing
machine, discount off. She said she had
learned there was fortune in it, and had
the audacity to ask ME to assist her. l Or
dered her from the house and, 1 trust,
Inundated her as she deserved.
Amazed at these disclosures | sought out
a poor girl who had been typewriter, and
whom l had often befriended, asked her
whether all that [ had learned about the
bus'nesf had come within her experience
also. You may imagine my establishment
at her reply:
'Well, Miss Clara" she said, 81 am one
of the oldest hands in the business, and
used to wonder, as l saw the turn things
were taking, how long it would be before |
would suffer from the decentralization of my
calling. The trouble came, but found it
to profit. My employer saw the same
danger in the business that l did, and be-
gan to lose respect for me and for himself,
so that after keeping me here in the office
q q q iObtc ha L.,
kissed me. / sprang to my feet and faced
him. L have expected this said l, and
have been prepared, You can now take
your choice of explaining your conduct to
my brother OF paying me $40 week down
for year in advance, with written
apology and promise to respect yourself
and treat me with
THE UTMOST RESPECT
as long as | remain here He was thor
oughly frightened and ashamed, and obeyed
my command. had been getting S12 be-
fore that. He treated me with frigid re-
sprect, and turned over all his business
with me to his chief clerk. The chief
clerk in turn caught the general infection,
and one evening made love to me. The
next day notified the lawyer that I had
been atfronted, and demanded the chief
SiOih ulSuiloodl. Ills reply was. MISS
jerks, | cannot discharge him, but 1 will
protect you. Your salary is now S25
week. Stop moment please He then
rang the bell, called in the chief clerk and
said:
- You have forgotten yourself. sir, and
the character l bear. You must apologize
to Miss jerks or leave my employ. After
that you can arrange in my presence
whether Miss jerks shall call you to an ac-
counting with her brother, or whether the
matter shall be buried and forgotten
1.-The chief clerk ate humble-pie as you
never saw man do it in your life, and
promised not to speak to my brother, so that
all now goes swimminglv, and 1 am wear
ing silk every day instead of Sundays. The
best joke of it is that the only brother ever
had died when was a baby, and am all
alone in New York, without relative
nearer than Kentucky" Clara Belle in
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