The Helena independent., 1891-02-22

much experience. Why these low Agurss7
10 the employment busean attached To
tho association there came . short time ago
Now York for boys 70 wash bottles. The
bufeau DID not supply boys, but y could
want girls. Why? II employed between 300
and 400 hands, and II had found In course
| 81 long experiences that n boys we're biddsn
such and such bottles In such and such
ways. they would keep on A. hidden 70 the
end Of ths chapter: but that u girls wers
| put on ths same task they would measure
for q week, thsn guess and become sltO-
gether Needless In their operations.
in tho PIG dry goods houses. ssys tbis az
pected to be on duty st eight o'clock in the
| morning. Their employers give them hf-
teen minutes grace. and they take adyant-
age Of IL almost universally. IL they are
6ned for eIcesding the fifteen minutes they
think II hard; yet their lack Of punctuaIity
has brought into existence the Office Of
size from 1,2lO 10 81 800 year to. pay .
man TO keep tho girls' time, and make them
even moderately regular
Women, says the same competent au-
thority, do not have AZ good health ~ men,
but their quicker wit would balance this
equally reliable. They are AZ honest ~
men in money matters. TOss bly, more 80,
but they are less honest in the use Of their
employers time, his stationery, and other
things that cost money. They arc less con-
scientiOna.
! have myself known telegraph operator
whose skill was az great as her habits were
unbusnessiike. She commanded = mans
wages. being one Of the very few women
operators in tbs country VINO do 70. bhs
seldom turned up for work before
II. and her fines for tardinesS
amounted in the course Of 9 year
to good-sized sum. Yet 10 fully. was
her very nnusual expertness appreciated
that on New Years day size received q check
from her employer returning the full
amount Of which shs had been Jnnlcted, in
spite OF the fact that that employer had
been forced to pay man to do her work
for an hour or more every morning. Was
this sex discrimination, and il 80 was it not
in the woman's favor? And yet.
Miss Cynthia westovcr.
When salaries we're raised all round the
other day in the Office Of Commissionsr
Beattie. 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
vate secretary. il in all probability the most
efficient person he has about him. When
the commissioner WIS sick while ago Mics
Westoyer filled his place for weeks, and sho
carries all the business OF the Office 80 clear
~ in her head that she can tell you at =
minutes notice where every man of the
gtreef-clenning brigade is at work. and how
many tons of ashes will bs gathered from
any one block in any given time.
Where the Watch fs Worn.
What do you suppose we are doing
with our watches? Keeping them warm at
our throats, to be sure. If you desire to be
in quite the latest fashion you must tuck
your time-keeper tenderly up in the warmth
of your neck, just irsids the high collar of
your frock. and let the short chain and
pendant hang over. brooch fashion. It's
not very convenient restiDR-place, but \
number Of people of high position have set
the example and we follow most obediently.
A Florida Room.
If you can't go to Florida il Lent,you can
erhaps have Florida room. Tho notion
has been taken MP hereabonts, and really
there baye been worse fads in decoration.
The possession Of such an apartment is a
certificate tnat you have been south some
previous year-or that some time you are
going. In dainty Florida boudoir the
winga of the fame-bright famingoes which
fly through the green gloom of ths swamps
like tongues of fire make charming bits of
color, thrust behind the corner of shelf or
mirror. Soft. coarse blankets woven from
the yellow fabric of the Sankin cotton and
dyed in pale brOwniSh tan arc hung as pOr-
there's and thrown as rugs across diyans. In
q cozy corner stands a tiny tea table made
from the palmetto tree, it's top polished
disk of the curious!y marked wood, it's
three legs long vanished leaf
stalks, their Jennings . hidden by
fans Of the young leaves. It's 4
queer. tropical-Iooking bit. and il your
hostess serves you on it glass of orange
flower syrup you are apt to think. as you sit
ana sip. with yonr eyes resting ON some
weird sketch from the isgoons, that. after
all. if she would but pull down that skin Of a
it's not, with its trails of
southern moss. in the meshes of which
perch tiny, viyid-colored Florida birds in
all sorts Of pretty attitudes, it's not such
bad room. ELIZABETH DUSTIN.
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