Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-07-09
THE FIGURE SPEAKS.
WHAT THE GIRL WHO TRIES ON
HAS TO SAY ABOUT HER WORK.

Wearing Fine Clothes May he Pleasant,
but the Degree of Satisfaction Depends
on Whether You Own Them OF Not.
Conversation of n Figure"
II sometimes wish my good looks was in
my face" said the pockmarked girl. at
would be awful nice to have my eyes blue
instead of green, and my mouth little in
stead of big. However, since that wasn't
to be so. Pm glad | amt so scrawny as
some girls that amt bad looking in the
face. Folks try to comfort me by saying
that there are dozen pretty faces to one
real good figure, but the best consolation
get is the twelve dollars a week that my
figure brings me in, now that Pve got a
place. If | was just one inch taller I'd
have got one without any trouble but
though ! wear the very highest heeled
shoes can find, still amt tall enough to
suit some of them. Who are them? Why,
the bosses in cloak places, of course. You
don't think pose for art classes, do you?
Not much, | don't. Pm a figure, not a
model.
Cannot add cubt to my stature?
don't want to add cubit, whatever that
Just an inch taller. Pm all right in other
matters-thirty- eight inches in the bust
and twenty-three inches in the waist, with
nicely sloping shoulders and IA long enough
neck-short necks are the trouble with a
good many that would like TO be figures,
and good many more are all right except
for their big waists.
Now, some of the girls say Pm laced
tiuht bacauSp NV Npaict 10 Gu cr,an in oo,,
parison with my shoulders but it isn't so;
nobody ever saw me puff and pant as girls
do who tie one Of their corset laces to the
bedpost and pull for all they are worth on
the other
"An easy berth Pve got2 Well, yes, it is
easy work in comparison with what some
other girls have to do for half the money;
but | have the care of the fine stock, and
It weighs on my mind, | can tell you, to be
held responsible for all them high priced
sacques and wraps. And then the con
slant trying onl It's true my hours are
only from 9 till 5, but earn my salary as
well as the black satin dresses that / wear
in the shop. Yes, of course they furnish
the dresses. I'd like to see myself, with a
salary of twelve dollars week, buying my
own silks and satins, for they wear out
awful quick under the constant putting OIL
and pulling off of sacques and wraps.
COMMENTS OF BUYERS.
mo, / don't do any trying on in the
workroom. Figures are expected to dc
that in smaller establishments, but in oul
place it is as much as ! can do to try on fol
customers Sometimes there will be Al
many as five ladies standing around wait
ing to see how sacques that they hav'
taken a fancy to will look on me- From
O'Clock till 5 it is usually try on and try on
with hardly any let up, and sometimes pv
been nearer faintng than any would think
but I've stood it out, because | knew tina
fainting folks amt wanted in business
No, don't have to stand still.
81 almost always walk up and down tn
room to show off the things, and while tn
customers are looking at me and passinl
remarks, | am expected to look just a
sweet and smiling as one Of the woode
dummies in the window, no matter wha
they may be saying Not always compl
mentaryy You just ought to hear ZEN
Sometimes they will say that everybod
can see am made up figure or wouldn
be sostiff. The square shouldered sort sa
that my shoulders slant too much, an
what would fit me wouldn't fit them.
should hope mott
"The stout ones say that it is inhuma
to keep me laced up so tight-that I'd hay
twenty waist if | was l.
alone. The awful tall ones say they can
tell what a cloak really looks like whe
they see it on such squatty figure, al
some who walk like cows themselves So
they could form a better judgment Of
cloak if they saw il on "A graceful person.
"I'd like to know If anybody but an ~
ress could walk natural with so MAJ
folks staring at her all at once. Frov
'em down; Idarsn't A figure has got
look Just as pretty as she can or she'll
bounced, and as matters stand it MAX
against me, can tell you, that / amt
better looking in the face.
NOT ALL FUN.
"Our business booming, you thin
Well, it amt bad, but, Of course, you kn'
there's a dozen cloaks tried on for one u
is sold, and sometimes for none that's so
Time and again I've tried on cloak aft
cloak for customers that had no more il
of buying 'em than have Of buying
moon. You may say il is all in a da
work, and hadn't ought to mind it, /
when the buyer scolds the saleslades
not selling more cloaks, some Of 'em hal
way of blaming it onto me, telling hin
leave all the talk TO them about their
ing warm and comfortable and at
same time light and stylish.
"Pd feel like it, wouldn't |, say on
dayin September, praising up Newmark
and sealskin sacques and such things q
Pm nearly suffocated in! Yes, we are
full busy in September selling our impor
articles to the buyers for small stores, q
my work lasts on later into the sunni
than you might think; so many folks
when the season is over, so as to get Thu
cheap.
hardly ever go on my vacation bel
the last week in June. Some Of the g
in our place say | don't need no vacatl
and it's only fun to be wearing fine clot
all the time, or at least all day, as do,
don't see where the fun comes in.
fine clothes as well as other folks but u
amt no satisfaction in putting EN- 0
they don't belong to me, and having
seaiskin wrap on my back doesn't m
me forget that my Sunday sacque cost
BE. and If / buy silk dress tins ye,
will have to do me another winter.
York Tribune.
Cotton Weaving In India
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