The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-03
WHAT 10 YOU THINK 2

Say, what do you think? I've been
working up at De Silk Bros. getting So
per week and never had to lift a blessed
hand to do stroke of work the whole day
long
''Well, know you would be paraIyzed.
But, gracious me, you ain It no more para
lyzed than I was when it happened, and I
ain so dead used to it yet but that 1 wake
up at nights sometimes and wonder if ib
ain all a dream and if I ain t got to 20
back to the cigarette factory the next day
and hustle along with a gang OF Kip's
Bay chippies till my back so tired can't
say my prayers
'tWeIl, say, just as true as I stand here.
I've been working up there, and what do
you suppose I did? Honest, you'd never
guess in a million times. So I may as
well tell you and put you out Of your
agony or else you'll have as many fits over
1s as Liz did when made her guess.
'tWell, you know they make waists and
tailor made frocks. Say, all I had to do
was to help the lady what tries on, and it
was more fun than a barge picnic, and
that's what got SO a week for, without
stain of tobacco on my hand at that.
Essay, what do you think? Now, I've
got another Job smarter than that How
did catch on? 1t is funnier than q con-
tinued story. OF course you know we
were all out on a strike and was getting
what Algy calls the hot end Of the poker,
because most of the girls what were out
on the strike had houses to go to or broth
ers and fathers what would do fair by
them. But I had nothing, only that Algy
sneaked up to my boarding house and
paid a week in advance for me without my
knowing. So I says to myself, I says:
Name, says I, Name, what you want to
do is to get a hustle on, Name. Get a
hustle on and go to work or else there will
DC nothing left for you to do but to take q
1s0af for Staten Island and
there.
''Thats what I says to myself, and
wasn't stuck at that half way trip on a
1erryboat, though I've known plenty Of
good girls what has taken it and just
turned up missing rather than go on try
ing to get along when there wasn't no use
trying.
what do you thinkP
Gas was saying, the superintendent Ct
tho sky high building where Algy runs
the elevator sees me when I am down
there and taking rides with Algy, and he
says to AlRy, Is she good girl? he says,
and Algy says, She's the best that ever
happened along the pike; she's my steady,
and when l get a raise we're going to be
married. says Algy, cause he's dead
straight on our proposition; he is all right,
all right
$50 the superintendent says, Does she
want work. and Algy says 1 wants IL
worse than an Avenue A COP wants high
ball on a warm night. and the supcrin-
tendent says be has a daughter at work in
De Silk Bros. and happened to knox
if applied Quick 1 might get the job, as
they wanted tall, slim girl like me.
Honest, what do you think?
''Say, did I hustle up there? Why, the
cable cars wasn't fast enough for me, aud
was so out of breath when I got thert
thought I'd never talk again, but sup
pose it would take something worse than
that to stop me talking.
t'Why, Algy says to me, Name, says
he, Name, you'll never be anything when
you don't have your say about it, except
when you're in your coffin, Name, he
says.
''well, was going to tell you. When
I made application, seen in minute
that the superintendent had given mo
character there, for all the young lay
does who I help was to look me over,
measure me around the shoulders, waist
and hips, and then she says, YoR'u do.
'tSay, honest, what do you think?
why, gracious me aliyel When she
was measuring me, was that scared ycu
could have heard my heart thump ike an
ambulance gong, and I wondered what
was going to do that they wanted my
bust measure.
'But 1 YVES in it all right. All 1 had to
do was to help my boss hang dresses on
customers, and once in awhile. when q
regular swell comes in and wants to order
enough dresses to last about a thou
sand women a million years, the boss iust
draped stuff over me and the swell piped
me OF, trying to get a tip on how she
would look in a dress made up Of the stuff
hanging on me. That's the reason they
wanted my measure, suppose.
but what do you think?
sfThere was one lady up to her neck in
a fitting Oh picnic when I first went thore,
and, say, she was a wonder.
81 couldn't get on to her curves at first,
though-honest, on the level, she haGn
many. 1 thought first she must be a mil
lion years old, but the lady helped called
her miss and was busting to beat the
band to please her. So I got busy, too,
and 1 hauled and tugged and pinned and
took up and in and let down and out,
and all the time the queer old miss was
talking to beat a fire engine and telling
me she liked the way did things. MY
boss lady says to me one day after we'd
had about three hours with the old girl,
Mamie, she says to me, Mamie, ylu
have made hit with Miss Van Bleecky.
and if you turn the trick you will be in
more luck than ever happened on your
block
Say amt so silly as look perhaps,
and aim no bad locker at that. So
just slows in my bonnet what my boss
says to me, and whenever Miss Van-We
always called her Miss Van-comes in
didn t do thing but help with her frOcEs
till was going about her like one of thoss
electric fans.
"Say, what do you think?
Il turned the trick all right and better
than any one thought. Miss Van has en-
gagged me for her maid
Honest, what do you thinkr'-NeW
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