The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-21

village aud cross-road postoffice throughout
the land and to eaca and every one of the
write OF these le. ters he proposes TO send
an advertising circular.
The boxes and barrels are slowed in one
end OF a large room; beside them are piled
great packages of wrappers, and Thea
Chars and tables, pens a I'd ink having been
provided the young women advertised for
make tae appearance on the see ., and a
very good appearance they make in their
stylish hats and "Hadingn wells, their
'Directoire7 coats, cloth suits, and ire
proacaable gloves and boots; indeed, they
are not at all in keeping with the dusty,
barn-like loft IN which they settle them
selves for work, Various reasons do they
give each other for being there. One is in
search Of congenial companiOnship, feeling
lonesome at home; another is sent
by the doctor, who thinks
she needs occupation of some sort;
another, il we may believe her, is laudably
working for money to give to the poor;
others are there only for fun. At length
g, more candid than the rest, gives the
most plausible reason of all, which is some
thing like this: Il am going to get seal
skin sscque Papa says he will paw 800
toward it if l earn the rest myself" the
ice being thus broken and candor being
contagious, the girls, one by one, begin
speaking of the purchases they have in
view. With one it is a pair Of expensive
kid boots; another has set her heart on
$50 hat that her mother positively refuses
TO buy for her; another is saving up for a
silk dress.
AS soon as they get acquainted their
tongues go as fast as their fingers, and the
latter move very rapidly indeed, qua titY
and not quality being the desidera tum in
work of This kind. The letters have been
taken from their envelopes, opened out
wide and tied up in packages of 500. AS it
is piece work there is no SCI task, but the
copYist who cannot address 900 wrappers
between 8 a. m. and q p. IN. is usually re-
qussted at the end of the first week to vacats
her place aAd make room for some one who
can. About three girls out of twenty will go
up to 1850 wrappers per diem.
and sometimes phenomenon makes her
appearance who will go as high as 1000,
or even $500; but these marvellous writer's
are regarded with some suspicion by the
superintendent, for if their )unt is honest
their scribbling is apt to be illegibe. More
than one rapid writer has come to grief,
when her scrawls have been sent back from
the postoi1ice, labeled "Illegiole," by being
obliged to admit that she could not read
them herself. Tnete is danger, too, of
writer's cramp, which often compels the
over-rapid sccbber to give up work for
several days, in order to rest her fingers.
no COpJ IL SOutJlulSS SAJT6 0eIN DuN-
cling ''Sants9y, San affy," murmurs q
copyIst; Give me- the Postal Guide, some
b dy. / never came across such a name
before, and can't make out the state either.
The first Initial is al n, but the other might
be either an H or al NJ. Then PERM IS
somebody" instead Of assing the Guide,
suggests Santa re, New Mexico, 'Santaffy"
bel & the local pronunciation.
ut is a shame for man to spell his name
~ fob
ing up a let or from some p0stofflce among
the West Virginia mountains. shall [
teach HIM how it ought to be- speltp Fol
low copy" returns her visa Wis, land let
the man spell as he likes"
rive 10 a long list # names in LeaYen-
worth, KAN says another, land am
going TO abOreviate the name of the place
as l once saw il done in O newspaper and
write it so-lookm And her neighb IT looks
a d sees it written, "l1worth, Kan" And
A remonstrance is met with the assertion
that it will ''get there all the same" and
then the writer goes on to observe that if
the boss (for even young ladies are prone to
use this vulgar appellation when they find
themselves below Canal stree) wants cop
perplate he ought to pay more than 81
thousand for wrappers.
81 am just SICK and tired of looking in
the Guide" complains another. "The next
time l cannot make out the name of O
place Pll direct the wrapper to Boston,
Mass. Then | know it will go through the
postoffice, and that is all 1 care for"
From which il may be seen how much
some of these workers for fun (alias finery)
have at heart the interests of their tempo
rary employer. A girl earning from Sc to
50 per week, living at home, and having no
ex Jenses but car fare, can at the eud of a
few months of scribbling have sufficient
ready money to make her the envy of her
friends whose things" must ali be bought
with the consent Of managing mammas ahd
whose bills are scanned by unsympathetic
papas. Her silk throws their cashmeres
quite into the shade, and he hat, bought
ready trimmed at some Fifth avenue nil
linery establishment, completely kills their
homs-trimmed head year. She cannot. of
course, dress up TO the Four Hundred, but
she can outdress many girl, whose father
outranks hers on BfadsJreet's books, and
this repays her for her toll and makes her
happy.