The Red Cloud chief., 1899-01-27
| DEMURE WOMAN.
SHEEWDNESS WAS CONCEALED
sv BAShFuL MANNER.
Her Quaint. Quiet Ways Paid How she
Married the Proprietor OF the Estab-
iishment. = Rich Oid bachelor - Had
the Tnrbsn Made Right.

'es'f ~ Ell thut W. Nv
ing to tell YOU about" said a young
woman who is employed by one OF
tho 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
l%essness, the most scientific method OF
Keeping her own. business to herself
that ] ever--but I've got to toll o
about her first, so you'll understand.
she got a place last spring in tho
establishment that has the distinction
OF utilizing my services. The head of
the establishment Is a bald-headcd 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 II
and became rich. lie is rich-worth. !
suppose, at a moderate estimate, about
5000 600, with one 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 docs his own employing.
He wants TO know who's working for
him. lie pays his employees better
than millinery people are paid in any
other millinery establishment In Amer
lea. bar none, and treats them right,
n they put In their best licks' for
him, as the boys say, for these rea-
sons.
Well. 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
MIR. Robinson saw and talked with
most OF them. Finally he picked out a
shy, bashful little thing-Annie Gay
lor1l do to call hcr-and employed
her.
NOW, new girls in a millinery es-
adjustment don't have an especially
happy time of It at first. On the con-
trary--I admit II with reluctance. but
1t Is, nevertheless, very true-thc 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-fashloned,
quaint-spoken little thing-she was
from Jackson, Mich, and shockingly
new to the ways OF city life-had @
hard row to hoe at frst. Her work
consisted in putting away things after
the saleswomen had exhibited them,
and she surely had TO work very hard.
Now, II 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 am q
buyer and don't have much to do with
many Of the girls. She took Il all un-
compIainingly, 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 & the old maiden forewoman
OF the sales department--little Annie.
with her rosy, pretty face and rounded
figure, was her pet atersion-came
down to the store one morning and.
all out OF breath, announced to the as
founded group of girls that surround
cd 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 30
on, that ensued. 1t was a terrific. ~
suppressed, clamor. surely 1t was. Lit
tie Annie's life was made miserable
Tor her during that day by the old
maiden forewoman OF the sales de-
partment. She was glared at and
at, but she ignored II all.
On the day after the DREADFUL dis
covery little Annie went back from
the salesroom to the trimming depart
with a lot of materials for a hat
her hand. She approached the fore
"obioh VI tbO THINNING department |
shyly. with evident %trepidation. She
deposited the hat materials on the
forewomcn's table. however, and be-
This customer she said, In a
most respectful tone Of voice to the
'orewon an who, by the way, despised
ner-'tb's customer want a gray vel
vet travelling turban, and l have
brought you the materials. She wants
have IL made etc. and the retir-
ng little thing started In to tell the
orewoman Just how the customer
wanted the travelling turban to he
made. She was snapped up almost at
nee by the forewoman.
"'You don't know what you are
about said the latter. You've
orgottcn how she said she wanted 1t
made. You took the order wrong.
IN sure she doesn't wan the feathers