Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-07-26
SONG or TIE SHIRT.
finisher res. How Necessity compels
ffet to Live.

tinisher reh. How Necessity Compeis
ffef to Live.
IL don't know what am going 70 do
shout IT, said THE shsrt-tuisher. My
roo.n-mates vow they Won't consent 70
naVe the alarm dlock go 81 at haif-past
i've in the morning, You see all three
u em are sales adies. and 80 they can
AFFORD to lie abed bin nearly seven, while
ought to be mp b. soon as can see 10
work, though, tot the life OF ue, ] can
not wake without the alarm. I'd rather
sew late at night SO as 10 sleep the next
morning. but rhy room mates won't
agree 70 my ba wing a candle, as they
say the light KEEPS them awake, so
am some times left in the dark. In the
middle of a button hole, when the gas
Is turned oil at haif-past ten. don't
sew on buttons in my dreams. as that
woman done in he song Of the Shirt
q heard IL read Al club meeting, but
Il would be gr aat saving of time II
could only sew em on in the dark. by
working early and late | can't finish
NOR" than i've 5 hirts a day when they
arc custom shir Is do four-and as the
highest pay at the place where | work
is dollar and "a half dozen, consider
myself in luck " hen can pay nay board,
three dollars, al the end Of the week.
For stock shirt get only dollar a
dozen, and when business amt brisk, oi
course get NOR c stocks than any thing
else.
= could do ah awful lot more II was
allowed to slight my work. like girls
who finish cheaD Jerseys. The buttons
drop oiT my jerseys the first time iasten
cni, but no such work a. that Is put on
shirts. 1t ain'i poor work. poor pay
with me. but 60 pd work. poor pay. The
overlooker at our place, though she
wears glasses, has got the eyes OF n
hawk and in the button-holcs tee
stitches has TO he just SO close together,
and the hemmiilg in the gussets has 70
hc almost as nice a. what would be put
lu pocket handkerchief; the buttons
must be sewed 4n hard ana tight; and
a. Tor the eyeiets. they are just the tor
ment of my lifo they have to be worked
% awfully rounA and smooth. | always
Tread 10 got a set of shirts with cyeleis
IA 'enl because then | am sure to be
found fault witt when hand my work
u sometimes get en- too large, aud
,onlrtimes too mall. ! don nave that
trouble with button-hulcs, because they
ire cut for me.
supplied with thread and needles ?
That We amt We buy our own thread
aud needles, a I'D IL counts up in the
nd can tell you That's all do buy
nowadays, and il often comes out 81 my
Noard money. AZ lur having my wash.
ing done, to ID the pvrintcudent Of
tuc home who're ] live that I just
'ouldu't afford IT, and SO there na- been
yu exception been made In my favor,
and am allow ed tu 20 down into the
laundry aud v ash nv own duds. It's
against the rul Is for the other bUarders
to do ii, though thoy'd All like 20, nc
matter how mi Jch they may earn. The
girls IN my ropm are always washing
their hand err hiefs and such things
and hanging them behind their wash
stands where they tuink they won't b'
seen.
why do ! work for 40 little2 Well
thrre dollars 4 week Il better than n,
lollar a week. aud as aint got nobod
10 look 10 for support ! have To catct
IN To any work that comes along. Re
iations ? None nearer than cousins
and they don't amount 10 mucha
least, mine d pn't. Why. cousin o
mine. whose husband earns his thr.,
dollars 4 day as q painter, invited III,
70 do my VAS hing at her house tha
vas before Hot permission 10 do II a
the home and afterward fell out viii
me aud made ne pay for the coal hst
burned III heating my irons.
"The girls IN my room tell mo that
,Uufd never get place in store be
ause | am n ot tall enough. bnt IL
could once lay up money enough u paJ
my hoard Tor week or two Id tramI
ap and down the city tin found a plac,
where they 40 nld take me. Was in
store once arc and the holidays. wher
there wa. lot OF extra hands needed
ind toll ynu IL was a satisfaction /,
bring homo ms Ave dollars every Satur
lay night IT. ; an awful misfortune B,
be SO snort Nhen girl has her Owl
living 10 make. II ! was six inche
taller I'd be earning almost half a
much again rs / am now for | amt on,
Il the stuek-u sort who think they Ar,
nut behind Il ebuntcr only - show Oi
their bangs AMI their bangles. mad,
. lots of sales wi Asn ! worked - an extra
ana could do il again II the store
keepers conid pnly get over my being ;,
hort ret oh ht OF all patience when
; ncar girl whining and saying sh,
ion't see why she has 10 work Why
! work is what ! want and the only thin.
: chat do want II could earn five dol
, iars week a shirt-hnishing I'D b
willing "a keep at II till ! WAS toJ old I,
thread a need f. It's only work tha
doesn't pay en pugh TO keep ma that
lon't like. un five dollars a week
,ould live like lady: three for m,
: board; one 20 put aside for dress, an,
. ,ne for my OF her expenses ANY CIR
, that's got the kuack Of fixing thing
IAN dress drce ht on flf,y dollars year
but its awful hard 10 do II on nothing
N. Y. Tribulle.