The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-03-30
DEMURE WOMAN.
sHREWDNEss WAS CONCEALED
BY BASHFUL MANNER.
der Quaint, quiet Ways Paid-How She
Married the Proprietor of the Estab-
Ishment, q Rich Old Daohelor-Had
the Turban Made Right. q


mure, old-fashioned girl that I'm go
ing to tell you about" said q young
woman who is employed by one of
the big millinery houses in Chicago,
and who stopped over in Washington
a few days ago on her return trip from
New York to visit some relatives here,
according to the Washington Star,
surely had, for all her apparent guile
lessness, the most scientific method of
keeping her own business to herself
that | ever-but I've got to tell you
about her first, so you'll understand.
She got a place last spring in the
establishment that has the distinction
of utilizing my services. The head of
the establishment Is a bald-headed but
otherwise very nice bachelor man
about 40 years old. The business was
left to him about ten years ago, on the
death of his mother, who started it
and became rich. He is rich-worth, 1
suppose, at a moderate estimate, about
$o0O,00O, with n of the showiest res
licences on the south side, in which
he lives all by himself, except the
servants, and a pretty steam yacht and
all kinds of horses and traps; every
thing; and yet he is very nice and he
works as hard at the store as any of
us. Mr.-well, I'll call him Mr.. Robin
son-always does his own employing.
He wants to know who's working for
MIN. He pays his employees better
than millinery people are paid in any
other millinery establishment in Amer
lea, bar none, n treats them right,
and they put in their best licks' for
him, as the boys say, for these rea-
sons.
We'll, last May he put an 'ad' In
the Chicago papers for an apprentice
saleswoman. About a thousand girls
appeared in response to the 'ad,' and
Mr. Robinson saw and talked with
most of them. Finally he picked out a
shy. bashful little thing-Annie Gay
lor1l do to call her-and employed
her.
Now, new girls in a millinery es-
~tablishment don't have an especially
happy time Of it at first. On the con-
trary-I admit it with reluctance, but
1t is, nevertheless, very true-the others
are generally rather tart and mean to
the new girl and impose upon her
I'm very, very sorry to say this, but
1t is true. And so this old-fashioned,
quaint-spoken little thing-she was
from Jackson, Mich, and shockingly
new to the ways of city life-had a
hard row to hoe at first. Her work
consisted in putting away things after
the saleswomen had exhibited them,
and she surely had to work very hard.
Now, If she had not been so extremely
pretty-well, they might have been
nicer to her. Really, she was bull
dozed' by most of the girls with whom
she came into contact-not by me, |
am glad to say, however, for l am a
buyer and don't have much to do with
many of the girls. She took 1t all un-
Icomplatntngly, never lost her temper,
and did her work all right. After
she had been with the establishment
three months she was made a regular
saleswoman-quick promotion, which
the other saleswomen didn't under
stand, and turned up their noses over.
We'll, what do you think? About a
month ago the old maiden foreWoman
of the sales department-little Annie,
with her rosy, pretty face and rounded
figure, was her pet aversion-came
down to the store one morning and,
all out of breath, announced to the as
founded group of girls that surround
ed her that, on the night before, she
had seen little Annie at the theater
with Mr.. Robinson, the proprietor.
You are here to imagine the chorus of
obs and abs and dreadful creatures
and unblushing young persons, and so
on, that ensued. 1t was a terrific, II
suppressed, clamor, surely 1t was, Lit
tie Armies life was made miserable
Tor her during hat day by the ole
y maiden forewoman Of the sales de.
partment. She wa glsred at ant
stared at, but she ignored it all.
It On the day after the DREADFUL dis
covery little Annie went back from
n the salesroom to the trimming depart
2 ment with a lot of materials for a ha
in her hand. She approached the fore
woman of the trimming department
\ shyly, with evident trepidation. Sh,
deposited the hat materials on tn,
forewoman's table, however, and be
gan:
This customer she said, in
v most respectful tone of voice to tn,
forewoman-who, by the way, despiset
v her-this customer wants d gray vel
j. vet travelling turban, and l hav,
D. brought you the materials. She wants
IS to have it made etc, and the retir
h ing little thing started in to tell tn,
e forewoman just how the custome,
d wanted the travelling turban to b.
n made. She vas snapped up almost a
once by the forewoman.
d "'You don't know what you ar,
n talking about said the latter. 'You'v,
forgotten how she said she wanted i
a made. You took the order wrong
At I'm sure she doesn't want the feather
II in front-she wants them at the side
I'm positive of it. Will you eve
learn to get an order right?'
Really said the quaint, quiet lit
tie Annie, she wants the feathers il
front and not at the side. Really sh
does
q 81 don't believe any such thing.
> sharply retorted the soured fore
y woman. And the likes of you dictat
/ ing to me, anyhow! AS if you didn'
IS need some one with sense to do a 10