The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-27
CONFESSIONS OF A FIGURE"
A Talk With Girl who Tries o.
Wraps for Living.
From the New York Times.

FROM the New YORK Times.
"Good souls, no - exclaimed the freckle-
faced girl. II amt one of them artists
models. I'm figure.
81 used to think it was awful hard to
have cat eyes and snub nose, when so
many girls that 1 knew were real good
looking, but since got steady position
in the showroom of a cloak establish
ment, while some of the same girls are
up stairs working hard at fms hing cloaks
and doing well when they earn IS a week,
Pm better satisfied with having a decent
figure instead of pretty face
81 haven't touched a needle since !
found that by wearing high-heeled shoes
I'd do for figure. The first place l went
to to apply for the position they said /
had the right bust measure-34 inches
and my shoulders had just the proper
slant, and, though my neck was a little
bit short, they could over look that;
but lacked just half an inch of being the
correct height.
81 was wearing common-sense shoes
then and, thinks l, if that is all there is
against me, I'll be took on at the next
store where l try for position. My old
shoes had hardly any heels TO speak of,
and when I'd got through tramping up
and down Sixth avenue that morning
what there was was nearly worn away,
for went into every shoe store where
there was chance of getting French
heels, and didn't stop till had found the
highest. .....
Uncomfortable? I should say So
that is, at first; but what is comfort COM
pared with getting position and earning
your $12 a week?
"Wear this dress in the store? No, this
is my Sunday dress; but those 1 wear in
the store are an awful lot none stylish.
They are provided by the store, of course
could never afford 10 buy, bdeLn out OF
my salary as for wearing plain clothes
there, L should look pretty, shouldn't 1,
trying on velvet and sealslki1. sacques and
wraps and me in homemade cashmere
or something Of that sort2 700
"The buyers wouldn't look at 'em-tha t
is, the lady buyers wouldn't-and you
would be surprised to see how many lady
buyers comes nowadays into Wholesale
places down town, looking out for what
the retailers advertise as imported ar
ticles'
There's lots of men buyers, too, and l
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 fit
of a sacque. Some of 'em are respectful
enough, but there's others that treat me
just as if l was dummy made to be paved
and jerked around.
Eyes, in our brisk season l am con-
stantly putting on and taking off-at least,
having things put on and took off me
and you would hardly believe how quick
that wears the new off of the silk dresses
l have on and makes them look shiny and
shabby. And then tramping up and down
the room to show of things is most as bad
on skirts as dragging 'em out on the
street.
"Make me proud to wear fine clothes
every day2 Not bit Of it. Fine clothes
don't make up for being found fault with
if everything amt just so, and it's awful
hard, can tell you, to keep everything
just as have and to be ready to answer
straight away any question one of the
bosses happens to put to you. Yes, all the
tine stock is under my care, so you see 1
don't have no time to idle, even when 1
am not parading up and down the room
before them buyers that makes me try on
everything they happen to lay eyes on,
and then say they'll call again.
Half of 'em that comes in says that,
and then don't do it, but, all the same,
have to try on sacque after sacque, and
wrap after wrap, and show off their
fronts and their backs, until feel as if
was circus actor.
Don't enjoy being admired? I amt
admired; that's the worst of it. l was
saying just now that men buyers are try
ing, but, if anything, ladies are tryinger
still. You ought to hear some of 'em
passing remarks about me, like as if l
was deaf. Some of the real tall ones
will say that they cannot Judge of the set
of a sacque unless it was " Orn by per-
son Of the proper height to set it off.
Some who look as il they had swallowed
pokers complain that l stoop dreadfully
when | am only holding myself as a lady
should hold herself. Some say am pad
ded to death and my figure don't look the
least bit natural, me that never needed
thread of padding, as the lady who makes
my dresses could tell EN-, and now and
then one with crane neck will come in
and say the sacques would look better on
me if my neck wasn't so short.
"Of course, there's real ladies that
come in who wouldn't disgrace themselves
by such talk, but one has to take good
and bad together, answer civilly, and
look smiling when one is feeling mad.
1T all comes in the days work, and
sometimes, when the days work is over
it begins at 6 in the morning and ends at
5 in the EVENING" am so tired that / can
hardly eat my dinner. Folks say it isn't
so tiresome as standing behind the coun-
ter all day, but if it wasn't that my
hours was shorter and my pay larger, l
believe I'd rather be salesday.h
A Grammatical Difference-D' Auber-I
wouldn't sell that picture for two thous-