Morris tribune., 1890-06-25
Taking Her Senses.

A girl enumerator furnishes to The
New York World an amusing account
of her experiences in taking the census.
First she went to the United States cen
sus Office and found it full of men, with
a few women scattered about. A lady
informed her there that sixty women in
New York had applied for places as emu
merators, and thirty-fve of them had
been accepted, while Of the men three
fourths were rejected. Doesn't that
show that women are smarter than
men?" asks the girl.
Being accepted, she took the oath as
follows:
7fHe man read off very fast something about
keeping secrets and being loyal to the United
States of America, and when he got through /
said ssYes'' and kissed a Bible and signed my
name as well as I could.
She received the book of instructions
next. OF this she writes:
had whole week to study up the little book
of census instructions. 1t ordered me to sit up
nights and write up my reports because the gov
ernnent was in such hurry The idea! knew
enough to do that without being told. 1t wasn't
half so hard studying for my examination in
the public school where was graduated The
little book ordered me to be very polite to people
I'm sure none of the lady census takers needed
that direction. Perhaps some of the men did.
The book also told me how to threaten stupid
people who wouldn't tell me about themselves.
This pretty girl seems down ON the
men for some reason, and never loses an
opportunity to give them a stab when
she can Once more contrasting the stu
pidity of men with the cleverness of
women, she says:
took only 200 blanks, but before got home
they felt like O ton of lead. The more my arms
ached the more thought about that $50 want
ed. had paid 81 for a fountain pen and 10 cents
for bottle of ink. Lots of the men enumerators
carried little bottles of ink in their lower left
hand vest pockets. One of them upset his bottle
I'm the house next door to ours and ruined beau
tfful carpet l don't think any of the lady emu
merators was SO foolish or clumsy as that
Her prejudice against men was not re-
turned on their part, however, for the
second day out she received an offer of
marriage, sure enough, dead earnest
one. from .'big steyedore'' whose wife
had departed this life eight months be-
fore. It is not fattering to women in
general to find that the only rudeness or
insult she encountered, even among the
tenement houses of New York city, came
from her own SEX She is sure all the
men she came in contact with were
perfectly respectful" She was obliged
to have one woman arrested. This part
of the story is delicious:
The only person had any serious trouble with
was woman who kept shop. She had her
sleeves rolled high, and popped up pair of red
arms akimbo when told her who was.
..Sothere isn't men enough, y she began, 'but
they must send around slip of girl to take my
senses =
she seemed to regard my presence as an af-
fr0ng.
ssNot one word do you find out from me, . she
added. HLet them send man who knows his
business IL they want to take my senses.
B argued awhile and she grew more and more
angry. Finally she began to abuse me and ran
away. i called with an officer few days later,
and She came down of her pedestal and gave
The information asked.