The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22

tne same task they would measure for q
week, then guess and become altogether
needless IN their operations.
IN Inc Dig dry goods houses, says this
experienced woman, the salesgirls are ex
pectea TO be on duty at o'clock in the
70 Meornlng. Their employers give them
nIteen minutes grace, and they take adj
Santage OF 1t almost universally. If they
are nned Tor exceeding the fifteen minutes
they take it hard; yet their lack of punctu
any mas brought into existence the office
OF tme- Keeper, and it costs every shop OF
any size from 81 200 to s., 500 year to pay
man to keep the girls time, and make
tne EN- even moderately regular.
women, says the same competent author
ny, 90 not have as good health as men, but
Ihelr quicker wit would balance this disad-
vantage II IN other ways they were equally
reilaDle. They are as honest as men in
money matters, possibly more so, but they
are less honest in the use of their en-
ployer's time. his stationery, and other
uhlngs that cost money. They are less
conscientious.
have myself known telegraph operator
whose Skill was as geeat as her habits were
unbuslnesslike She commanded mans
wages, being one of the very few women
operators in the country who do so. She
seldom turned up for work before II, and
her fines for hardness amounted in the
course OF year to good-Sized sum. Yet
SO 1ully was her very unusual experiences
appreciated that on New Years day she
received check from her employer return
ing the full amount of which she had been
mulcted, in spite of the fact that that en-
ployer had been forced to pay man to do
her work for an hour or more nearly every
morning. Was this sex discrimination,
and II so was it not in the woman's favor!
And yet.
MISS CYNTHIA MISSIONER.
! When salaries were raised all round the
other day in the Office of Commissioner
Beattle, who cleans New York's streets, or
leaves them dirty, the one woman in the
office was the one person who did not share
IN the raise; and this in spite of the fact
that Miss Westover, Commissioner
Beattle's private secretary, is in all prob
ability the most efficient person he has
ABOUT him. When the commissioner was
SICK while ago, Miss Westover filled his
place for weeks, and she carries all the
business of the office so clearly in her head
that she can tell you at minutes notice
Wnere every man of the STRENGTHENING
brigade is at work, and how many tons of
ashes will be gathered from any one block
IN any given time.
WHERE THE WATCH IS WORN.
NnaL DO you suppose we are doing with
our watches! Keeping them warm at the
throats to be sure. II you desire to be in
quite the latest fashion you must tuck your
ne-keeper tenderly up in the warmth of
your neck, just inside the high collar of
your frock and let the short chain and pen
dant hang over, brooch fashion. It's not a
very convenient resting place, but
number of people of high position have
set the example and we follow most obedi-
emily.
A FLORIDA ROOM
If you can't go to Florida in Lent YOU
can perhaps have Florida room. The no.
ton has been taken up hereabouts, and
really there have been worse fads in decor
atlon. The possession of such an apart
ment is a certificate that you have been
south some previous year-or that some
time you are going. In a dainty
florlda boudoir the wings of
the tiame-bright hamingoes which
fly through the green gloom of the
swamps like tongues of fire making charm
ing bits of color, thrust behind the corner
OF a shelf or mirror. Soft, coarse blankets
woven from the yellow fabric of the Nan
kin cotton and dyed in pale, brownish tan
are hung as portieres and thrown as rugs
across dlvans. In cosy corner stands a
tiny tea table made from the palmetto tree.
us top poliSnea DISC OF the curloSly
marked wood. its three legs long varnlsh-
ed leaf stalks, their jennings hidden by
fans OF the young leaves. It's a queer,
troplcal-looking bit, and if your hostess
serves you on it glass of orange flower
slrup you are apt to think, as you sit and
sip, with your eyes resting on some weird
sketch from the lagoons, that after all.
Il she would but pull down that skin of a
rattle snake, it's not, with its trails of
southern moss, in the meshes of which
perch tiny, vivid colored Floriua birds in
Ill sorts OF pretty attitudes, it's not such
pad room. ELIZABETH DUSTIN