Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-01
PURELY FEMININE.
SOME THINGS THAT ARE sure TO PLEASE
TIE LADIES'
A Talk With a Girl Who Tries On Wraps for q
L~iving-Pashion NOTyrant-Hints for House
wives Little Things FOR Little Folks
Nsv York Tunes.

have cat eyes and q snub nose, when so
many girls that l knew were real good
looking, but since / got q steady posi-
tion in the showroom OF a cloak estao-
lishment, while some Of the same girls
are upstairs working hard at finishing
clOaks and doing we'll when they earn
IS a week, I'm better satisfied with
having a decent figure instead Of a
pretty face.
II haven't touched a needle since
found that by wearing ~hiRh-heeIed
shoes I'd do for a figure. The hrst
place l went to apply for the position
they said 1 had the right bust measure
-%thirty-fOur inches-and my shoulders
had Just the proper slant, and, though
my neck was a little bit short, they
could overlook that; but I lacked just
half al inch Of being the correct
height.
II was wearing commensurate SHOES
then, and, thinks l, II that is all there
Is against me, IN be took on at the
next store where I try for a position.
NV ola shoes had hardly any heels 70
speak Of, and when I'd got through
tramping up and down Sixth avenue
that morning what there was was near
ly worn away, for 1 went into every
shoe store where there was q chance Of
getting French heels, and l didn't stop
tll had found the highest.
Uncomfortable? / should say so
that Is, at first; but what is comfort
compared with getting a position and
earning your SO a week.
'Wear this dress ia the store? No,
this is my Sunday dress, but those /
wear IN the store are an awful lot more
stylish. They are provided by the
store. OF course; I could never afford 70
buy them out Of my salary, and as for
wearing plain clothes there, l should
look pretty, shouldn't ], trying on vel
vet and sealskin SacQueS aud wraps aud
me In q homemade cashmere or some
thing OF that sort?
The buyers wouldn't look al EN-
that is the lady buyers wouldn't-and
you would be surprised TO see how many
lady buyers comes nowadays into whole
sale places down town, looking out for
what the retailers advertise as imported
articles
There's lots OF men buyers, too, and
hate the sight OF some Of them, they
do so much more paving than there IS
any need for when they are deciding
about the at OF a sacQue. Some OF EN-
are respectful enough, but there's 9TH
erS that treat me just as II l was a dunn
nv 70 be paved and jerked around.
Eyes, IN our brisk season / am con-
stantly putting on and taking oh-at
least, having things put on and took OIL
me-and you would hardly believe how
quick that wears the new of Of the silk
dresses I have on and makes them look
shiny and shabby. And then tramplng
up and down the room 10 show of
things is most as bad on skirts as drag
ging 'em out on the street.
MAKE me proud 70 wear fine clothes
every day? Not a bit Of il! Fine clothes
don't make up for being found fault
with n everything ain't just so, and it's
awful hard, l can tell you, TO keep
everything just so with such a lot OF
fine stock 70 look after as have and 10
be ready TO answer straight away any
question one Of the bosses happens TO
put TO you. Yes, all the fine stock is
under my care, so YOU see 1 don't have
no time TO idle, even when l I'm not pa
radinR I'D and down the room before
them buyers that make me try on
everything they happen TO lay eyes on,
and then say they'll call again.
HALT of 'em that comes In says that,
and then don't do IL, but, all the same, l
have TO try on sacque after sacque, and
wrap after wrap, aud show oil their
fronts and their bacl'g, until l feel as il
] was a circus actor.
Don't enjoy being admired? amt
admired: that's the worst OF 10. l vas
saving lust now that men buyers are
trying, but, il anything, ladies are try
niger still. You ought TO hear some OF
'em passing remarks about me, like as
II l was deaf. Some OF the real tall
ones will say that they cannot judge OF
the set OF a sacQue unless IL Is worn by
a person OF the proper height to set it
of. Some who look as II they had
swallowed pokers complain that 1
stoop dreadfully, when l an only hold
ing myself as q lady should hold her
self. Some say l am padded to death
and my figure don't look the
least bit natural, me that never
needed a thread Of padding, IS the lady
who makes my dresses could tell EN-.
and now and then one with a crane
neck will come Ia and say the sacques
would look better on me IL my neck
wasn't so short.
''Of course, there's real ladies that
come in that wouldn't disgrace them
selves by such talk, but one has to
take good and bad together, and answer
civily, and look smiling when one is
feeling mad.
at all comes In the days work, and
sometimes, when the days work Is over
1T begins at 9 in the morning and
ends az 5 In the evening" am so tired
that a hardly eat my dinner. Folks
saw it isn't so tireSome as standing be-
hind the counter all day, but II it wasn't
that my hours was shorter l believe I'd
rather be 9 saleSlady."