The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-16

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To long for gay times and measure out
waves of ripping pink. and dazzling sold.
and faint blue. and burning scarlet, all for
other women to enjoy. 1t is hard, when
the busy time is over, to have TO ind
for your resting place. Only the corner Of
the shelf, and then be forced TO tell an in
vestigating committee that seats are pro-
vided for you. It is pretty hard when you
are young. and think Of gay restaurants
and dainty food, TO have TO lunch on a
dry sandwich and piece of jelly cake II
is pretty hard when you are young, to be
at the store at ten minutes TO S. and stay
there all day long. looking with envious
eyes at idle women. and wondering why
you can't have their money, since you are
a deal prettier than they are. and, you
think much more capable of enjoying your
self. Sometimes you wish you would new
er see any more ribbons. And then again,
when you have got little money, and
buy a set of ribbons for yourself, 1t is
curious how Interesting they seem, and
how all the other girls help you to choose
exactly what will suit you. And. after the
working hours are over. there is not very
much for you.
You go home. the best home that you
have ever known. 1t is a small fiat in q
tenement house, stuffy and hot, and it
seems as if your mother could never learn
that she needn't keep the hottest sort Of
a fire in the kitchen clear Up to the time
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if you are not too tired and 80 down
front-that is where all the tenement
house girls go when they want to see
anybody. Do you remember how l got
acquainted with you? 1t was over at
the Settlement. You had come there to
see what was generally known as 1.-The
pictures" l had come from uptown win
the Old Scientist who boarded IN the
some house as l did, and who was going TO
give a lecture in the Settlement parlors
about the stars and show pictures with
my assistance and that of a magic Ian
tern. You came in with a lot OF girls
who giggled while the lecture was going
on, and expressed pleasure by loud
"Ohs'' and "Ah's" when the wonders #
the sky were shown. l selected you 10
help me with the lemonade afterwar1,
and then one day when l was buying
some ribbons l recognized you and srg-
gested your coming up to the Girls Club.
And that is how / got to know all about
you. When the girls went on a picnic
you got a day off, and how ] did laugh
as | saw you dancing first with one girl
and then with another, although the
thermometer said 96 and the heat seemed
about 900.
one night went down to take message
/ to you. Then / saw how it was that the
street was the only place where the teno-
ment house girl could meet her sweet
heart. Your father and his friends were
in the room called the parlor Your moth
er and hers occupied the stuffy kitchen,
while the miserable bedrooms were al
ready inhabited by the various children.
So looking pretty as a picture in your pink
cotton frock, and with a noW set of pink
ribbons at your neck, fastened coquet-
tishly in your hair and about your small
round waist. you stood among the group at
the door waiting for your gentleman
friend" to let you know he was there
either by a whistle, a song, or some catch
word. You and the other girls, like most
of those behind the counters in the big
stores, have n certain stylish air pecu-
liarly your own. You invariably know
the last new way OF dressing your hair,
and although your implements are crude,
consisting of a miserable brush, a broken
comb and a single iron. heated on the
kitchen stove yet you achieve effects In
unduating and in picturesque knots that
are quite beyond the bellies OF Murray
Hill.
Just now you are the enyied of all the
girls in the neighborhood. Your "fren"
is a young man commonly known as
''Swlpesey," although you call him Joe.
He is third assistant barkeeper In the sa-
loon on the corner, and has told you quite
conhdentially that, some day, de brewer
wot backs up de head chop, he's a-goin to
put me in a place o. me own, see?" 1t
cannot be said that your gentleman
fren," as all the girls call him, is given to
the usual expressions of tenderness.
Tonight ne thinks you look very well
and so he says, Say, Name. volts de dog
Tryin' to look like a peach2 Tinkin' to
ketch some udder blol1e, see?"
In answer you give a conscious gigglc
of satisfaction, and Joe shoves you SO
that you nearly fall on the pavement
Then he clutches you by the arm, and off
you go to the nearest dock This is the
place where the tenement house girls all
come when they have attained the dignity
of a gentleman friend" And here they
sit in all innocence through the long sum-
mer evenings The love making is very
open Each friend puts his arm around
his LADY friend" and occasionally lays
his head on her shoulder Sometimes he
goes to Sleep, and she gives him fierce
shove and asks Look yere, do you'se
think I'm goin' out as child's nurse?' Then
this particular gentleman friend straight
ems himself up gives his lady friend an af-
fectionate slap and conversation is resum-
ed. The conversation is purely personal
Swipesey says: Say, Name, did yer
know de Sparklers wus a-goin' to have
a pic-a-nic?'
Goodness, no." answers Name. And
Swipesey adds: II tink you amt goin"
And Name answers: Il amt. don't
t'ink."
After this there is a silence of a few
minutes, while Swipesey endeavors to
kiss her, and Name slaps him in the face
Then she says: MY, Swipesey, yer ought
to see de swell hoorwalker in our place
And Swipesey mutters an oath, and says
something about mot carin' to see no
female impersonator." So the evening
goes. The chief pleasure seeming to con-
sist in a constant contradiction of each
other.
Very late, when the various children
have gone home some girl starts to sing,
and soon they are all singing. oh, no,
not the sort Of songs that you entertain
Mr.. We're de We're with, but the songs pc
culiar to the Bowery the latest ones sung
in the concert halls and a few Of the old
plantation tunes Then gradually they
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