New-York tribune., 1889-12-26
WANTED-A TYPEWRITER.
MACHINE AND NOT AN INTELLIGENCE.

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81 am always the one that gets lcft,' complained
a rapid and correct operator. Il went carry thlS
morning to answer an advertisement for typewriter,
and thought / should be the first one In the ONCE
but the advertiser told me he was already suited.
Possibly he told you story thought her hearer,
clancing at the disappointed grl-a girl with turkey
egg complexion and hair that would set unklnd
perons to speaking Of white horses; girl with hat
her teeth gone, and the remaining half discolored )
a girl with square shoulders and the voice OF ile
How was the advertiser TO know that here was
typewriter who would identify herself with her en-
ployer and attend conscientiousy to all her Office
sduties? How was he to know that, " In book OF
moral beauty she might have her portrait painted at
full lcngthl"
"I am always the one who is taken,' observed
another girl one "stysh" enough to pass for being
pretty, and one who in the language of the bread
winner could always speak up for herself. Il
leave place directly ! find that things there arc
not going to suit me, because 1 know l can step
into another within a week. am not such awully
fast writer either l can. squirt, go high as
eighty words minute, but usually write about nifty
that's enough dear knOwsl No, don't work seauily
all the tmo / in the office. Sometimes carry on
half tho day with the other girls. the girls who are
addressing circulars by hand. Ny present BOSWELL
employer then-sends out just 1,Ooo'ooo Circulars
every winter and that keeps lot of girls busy for
few months They are awfully envOus of me, some
of them because nv place Is permanent one. while
they will have the grand bounce soon as the circulars
are all sent out; and besides, my working hours arc
shorter than theirs and earn just twice as much as
most of them do. One Of the girs-she isn't girl
either but an old woman thiry-five at least-tried
my typewriter at the other day. and IL seemed
to do her so much good to show me how much neater
her work was than mine-as II it matters pin about
the letters being all on line. and the spaces of the
Same Width IL seems TO surprise her that she cannot
get place as typewriter, as she has certificate rom
somewhere to show that she Is competent don't
tell her So but she is too Old Tor one thlns' haruy
ANYBODY would employ typewriter over thirty why
should that be- the dead line Well, suppose IL Is
hecauee women are set in their ways after they are
out of their twcntos, and think they know IL all
The grill mean tho old mad-I am speaking of had
nlace some time back and she told IL herself that
sometimes when her employer would be debating to
her. she would stop him, and tell MN now tho let'er
could be better woried Dld you ever near Oh such
cbeek2 why. II my b-employer said nothing but
.ulcbdddle-dddlo,' I'd take 1t down Just as ha~sad
&c. It's my fingers he wants, not my oraihs-sup
posing had any. One day this person am 'alh
ING about heard me scoded because had written to
,tor,or that We had no more goods of certain kind
and I'm hurry had spelled no, know, Just like the
otber know She was delighted at catching me In a
mistake and didn't let me near the last Oh ~ uhui
| said: well madam, NO know now 10 get place
AZ tyDeWutcr and earn IL a." "o'n' "iiD ~"
earn only s5 with your poky addressing
II IS silly, isn't it, to laugh at girl because when she
IS rushing through with her work. she doesn't always
smell llv, Daniel webster? Noah, was fl thought
his name Daniel
at the tpcwuftIng school they used to tell me
that my ignorance OF punctuation would keep back.
hut am NOT bothered much about such matters; II
snr-nkle a few commas here ani there as 20 along,
nv employer seems to be satisfied. j have heard
sIoes df dreadful consequences nom misplacing ones
stous hut / don't let them trouble me- being convinced
they are all my grandmother. Leaving out comma
ts very dlffcrent from leaving out a not l have
done that more than once, and II has got into hot
water Canltals are the trouble with sOms girls but
my employer has given me only one rulc about them,
and IL Is easy TO remember; the hrst day w1oc rom
his dlctatlOn, he said TO me- When IN doubt use
capital Capitals out OF place will be forgiven, but
small letters, never , .
ret aher ard hesc is lot OF sameness about it. Some
lays have to write the same fhs TO dozen different
customers and ID becomes mon0tOnous that nearly
60 TO sleep over H. Doesn't the prlcklng OF conscience
hecp me awakef Wen | should Hike 10 know what
my employers hbs have 10 do with my conscience lie
invonts them, aud /. who only follow dotation. am
not supposed to know tha, they arr HE. 10 know
II though and II were his sunday school teacher
might sometimes feel II my duty 90 ask him whce he
expects % go whsn be dies, but thanh heaven ] an
only his vpewrtter.s