Morning journal and courier., 1890-04-25

morning, but my room mates won't agree to my having candle, as they say the light keeps them awake; SO am sometimes left in the dark, in the middle of button hole, when the gas is turned off at half past 10. don't sew on buttons in my dreams, as that heard 1t read at a club meeting but it would be great saving = time if could only sew lem on in the dark. By working early and late can't finish more than five shirts day-when they are custom shirts do four and as the highest pay at the place where I work is dollar and half dozen, con- slider myself in luck when can pay my board, three dollars, at the end of the week. For stock shirts get only dol lar Q dozen, and when business ain't brisk, of course get more stocks than anything else.
 'I could do an awful lot more if was al- lowed to slight my work, like girls who fin. jerseys the first time I fastsn lem. but no such work as that is put on shirts. It ain't poor work, poor pay with me, but good work, poor pay. The overlooker at our place, though she wears glasses, has got the eyes of hawk, and in the buttonholes the stitches has to be just so close together, and the hemming in the gussets has to be almost as nice as what would be put on pocket handkerchief; the buttons must be sewed on hard and tight; and as for the eyelets, they are just the torment of my life, they have to be worked so awfully round and smooth. l always dread to get 8 set of shirts with eye- lets in lem because then am sure to be found fault with when hand my work in sometimes I get lem too large, aud some- times too small. I don't have that trouble with buttonholes, because they are cut for me.
 Supplied with thread and needlesa That we ain't! We buy our own thread and nee- xf- k11y you. That's all do buy nowadays, and it often comes out of my board money. As for having my washing done, told the superin- tendent of the home where live that I just couldn't afford it. and so there has been an exception made in my favor, and am al- lowed to go down into the laundry and wash my own duds. It's against the rules for the other borders to do it, though they'd all like to, no matter how much they may earn. The | handkerchiefs and such things, and hanging | them behind their washstands where they
 won't be seen.
 "Why do work for so littlei Well, three | dollars a week is better than no dollars . week, and as ain't got nobody to look to for support, I have to catch on to any work that coues along. Relations. None nearer
 than cousins, .and they don't amount to much 1 at least mine don't
 
 1 never got place in store because am not | tall enough; but if I could once lay up
 money enough to pay my board for week or two. I'd tramp up and down the city till
 found g place where they would take me. I was in store once around the holidays, 1 when there was a lot of extra hands needed I and tell you it was a satisfaction to bring home my five dollars on Saturday nightl get out of all patience when hear girl
 whining and saying she don't see why she has to work. Why, work is what I want, and the only thing that I do want. If ! could earn five dollars week at shirt finish. 1 ing, I'd be willing to keep at it till was toe old to thread needle. It's only work that doesn't pay enough to keep me that I don't l like. On five dollars a week could live like lady-three for my board, ono to put aside for dress, and one for my other ex. penses. Any girl that's got the knack of fixing things can dress decent on fifty dol lars a year, but it's awful hard to do it on l nOthinp 1