The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-09
THE 3YPEWRITER GIRL.
by She Placed Sign Upon Her
Office Door.
From do New York Sun.

nigh deserted. Only one elevator was
running and The swish of the scrubwonan's
mop was heard in the hall. The one soil
tary typewriter who remained to break the
monotony of the evening silence with the
clicking of her machine softly opened the
Office door and, after looking cautiously
around for a moment stepped out into the
hall In her hand she carried six-by- six
square OF heavy white paper. Seeing there
was no one to watch her but the scrub
woman and belated toiler standing near
the elevator shaft, she assumed an air of
boidness and, producing from some myA-
terious recess In the hollow of her hanA
four Drass-headed nails, she began to tack
the square of paper 20 the office door
The belaied toiler left her position neNa
the elevator and approached near enouaM
10 read the card ON which was written In
bold type
ELEEMOSYNARY
Typewrlting institution
Patronage Solicited. Satisfaction Guar
anteed
| The undersigned does hereby announce 10
WhomsoeVer IL may concern that she will
write letters briefs, contracts. copy manu-
script, and supply postage stamps for mail
! ing the same, Free or Cost, for any worthy
person VINO is broke" or for any I'M
worthy person who has money but who
does not like to spend II in triHes of this
sort. Please call. Mary Edison
The belated toler read the queer notice
again. She was still reading it when the
industrious typewriter reappeared hated
and yelled preparatory TO going home
When she stopped 10 lock the door the be-
lated toiler stepped forward and aceosted
| her.
Pardon me" said the toiler. pointing
TO the typewriter paper will you kindly
| tell me the meaning of ths?''
The typewriter smiled grimy.
well" she said considering you APP
pear to be a woman who IS able to ap-
preciate tale of woe occasionally, / don't
| mind telling you mine Were you ever inn
| posed upon? | have been. | am imposed
| upon daily, and I'm getting sick and tired
| of H. I'm going to try to put "A stop TO IT..
| | am employed in thar office at a regular
| salary. II isn't a lordly income. mind you,
! but 1t is a salary and | am glad to get
| 1t. Now, I'm not saying anything against
| my employer. He's all right. II isn't his
| fault that he can't afford 70 pay higher
| wages. It's his counsins and his brothers
| and his bosom friends and his chance ac-
qualntances that / am kicking about
| UNLESS you have had experience you
wouldn't believe how many men there are
/ in this town who get their typewriting
done for nothing. II is an honest fact
that there are scores of them who carry
on halfway decent business through
| typewriter correspondence for which they
| never pay a penny. AS | said, / have
nothing against my employer, but l must
| say that 1t certainly Is not 10 his credit
| that those cousins and brothers and
! friends and acquaintances aforementioned
| belong to that class of imposters. You
| see. my employers work does not keep
me busy half of the time or Ii did he
would have to pay larger salary, and
there Is scarcely a day that one of his
| impecunious or peTsimonious hangerson
does not come In with bit of work
| which he wonders If he could not get done
| as "A little accommodation That bit Of
| work often consumes an hour or more of
my time-it was a piece of 1t that kept me
so late to-night-and i ought 20 be paid
| for IT, but my presumptuous customer
| never thinks of a recompense other than a
| mere Thank YOU and sometimes he even
ornits that Why, the work / do would
! amount to an average of 81 a day were
a professional typewriter.
| by the time these parasites have visited
| several other offices as they come to ours,
they manage TO get their correspondence
taken care of quite nicely. My employer
has been away for a week. but his abb
| sence Is marked by no abatement of the
nuisance They drop in and ask for n
| little favor just the same. ! dare not
| complain, openly but while I am running
shop to suit myself / am going to take
the case in my own hands and exercise a
! little diplomacy 10 counterfeit their audac-
! ity. Hence that sign. 1t seems 10 me that
after reading that any man who has a
spark Of. shame In his makeup would walk
| five miles 10 get letter written before
asking me to do il gratis Stil you can't
tell. They're awfully hardened
--Nikola Tesla. who is working on his