Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-07-09

Tailors Employ Them and Gildcd Young
Men Acc Their Victims.

This is a story Of how some young
women i'm this town make a very good
living. 1t Is Il truly interesting story.
Some folks will say hat it is another
illustration of the superiority of wo-
men.
Everybody knows that the tailors
who make the young men Of this town
look SO fine have n deal Of trouble In
collecting their money. Some of the
funny papers say that a fashionable
young man who pays his tailor with
any degree Of promptncss loses caste,
Only those who have been derelict,-
maybe fashionable would be the better
word-haye any idea Ct the deep plot.
that the tailors have used to collect
their money. Now some Of the very
wisest have discovered a plan which
the debtors look upon as Machiayellian
in its deep cunning.
Now who but n tailor would conceive
the idea of employing n pretty young
woman to collect his bills from Young
men or old one who still think they
are young? 1t is quite true that sew
eral fashionable tailors are doing that
very thing. There was never any plan
so excellent for them.
The great trouble with this new de-
parture, from the woman wage-earn.
er's standpoint, is that it makes an in
yidious distinction. The woman 50
employed, to be successful, must be
pretty. She must also be quick Of wit
and have no ordinary amoun of self
possession. Given these things, with
courage, and she can make a small
fortune. For ii she is clever she will
not make the collections on O salary,
but on commission.
When q pretty young woman, charm
ingly dressed, appears at an Office and
says that she wants to see Mr.. Putoff,
the Office boy never dreams or inquiries
what her business may be. he SIM
ply goes to the young man and says
that Il lady wishes TO see him, and adds,
with the Office boys privilege, that she
10 yOuns aud pretty. MI. rutOff noror
dreams of demanding to know her
business before he goes out. He APP
pears with q smile as broad as a French
play and greets her with overpower-
ing ~politeness. And when she looks
at him shyly and timidly, and muir
murs with a little catch in her voice,
"Oh, Mr.. Putolf, you'll pardon me"
he feels that there is nothing on earth
be would not do 10 help the beautiful
girl who is in distress. He doesn't no.
tice the slip of white paper in her
hand. And then when she tells him
that she has called to. collect the little
bill which he owes Cuttem a. Tailor, it
dazes him. He pays the bill before he
can ecoye from his amazement. And
even If he did recover his wits in time
he would lever dare put her off and
u the cross-iirc Of the other fellows
in the office.
On the page devoted to men you will
read a rhyme which tells, with tender
melancholy, of how one young man
was caught in the tolls of a collector.
Sometimes the young woman goes
about it in n strictly business way. 1t
all depends upon the victim.
There are in New York now about
half a dozen young women who are
employed as collectors by ~tailors. Nat
urally it isn't q business that every
young lady would care to 90 into, but
the wages are attractive. There is one
young woman employed by a Fifth
avenue tailor, whose average is $50 a
week, and she does not work over six
hours a day.
ut isn't nearly so bad as it seems"
said she. "The first time | went into
an office | thought / should faint. It
was only with the greatest effort that
l could make myself go there at all.
But didn't have TO do any urging at
all. The man paid me almost with
out saying a word. 1t didn't take me
five minutes and my commission was
so. That encouraged me and now I
get along splendidly. But it takes lots
of assurance at times. Still | have
never been treated discourtcously but
once. The worst trouble is that the
men want to invite you to dinner, to
the theater and all that sort of thing
IN. y. World.