The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-25
WANTED, GIRL FOR
ASSISTANT COOK.
Girls From Navarro Answer
ed the Advertisement.
IN A VERY DECOLLETE GOWN
The New Girl Prepared to Peel Potatoes
and Attend to the Ban-of-AIi-
Works Job--A Massillon
Idyll.
Special to News-Democrat.

Special to News-D Democrat.
Massillon, Sept. 22.--Two unsophisti-
Gated young women arrived in town
Thursday in answer to the advertise
ment of a local hotel manager who
wanted girl to wait table and one
tc be third or fourth assistant cook.
Not great knowledge of culinary art
is essential to a third or fourth cook.
Her duties usually consist of peeling
potatoes and other vegetables and at
times she Is permitted to baste the roast.
These young ladies who had passed
most Of their lives in peaceful Navarro
came to the hotel and were at once ac-
cepted, as Massillon hotels are full of
guests and are short of help. A room
was assigned the girls and they were
told to prepare themselves for their re-
spective positions at once. In a short
time the call-bell rang and a porter
responded. He was informed that they
were now ready for work and requested
that the manager be called. The man.
ager appeared. He was dumfounded
to see one of the girls in full evening
dress with decollete bodice and a stun
ming gown deliberately trimmed with
lace and baby ribbon. Her hair was
becomingly arranged and all in all she
was thing of beauty. In dainty way
she informed the manager that she was
ready to pitch in and juggle trays to
finish. The manager hemmed and
hawed and opened his sleeve to laugh
In 1t when the other girl, who had stood
demurely in darkened corner, came
forth. This Miss Navarro had not de-
Veloped the evening dress habit but the
street costume she wore would have
driven Prospect street girl to an en-
vious frenzy. Her tailor-made gown
was dark blue and fit as though the
girl had been poured into it. She was
the pink of perfection.
THE GIRL IN BLUE.
The manager hurried down stairs and
took a tumbler of Full Weight"
Then he ordered the girl in blue sent
to the kitchen. She came. The chef
dropped g. platter of chicken croquettes
a la Harrylloyd and the second cook
brushed back his hair with a carrot.
Finally the swell-dressed Navarite
was seated on a three-egged stool and
was given pan full of potatoes to be-
gin operation on. She picked up a
homely looking tuber and made swipe
at 1t with her knife. Every eye in the
potato, and it was full of them, seemed
to be looking straight at her. Finally
her own eyes grew moist and then big
tears trickled down her cheeks. She
wasn't intended for third or fourth
cook. Nature and Navarro had cut out
letter things for her. In a moment
chunks Of "spuds" would ruin her
clothes. All the brightness Of life was
snuffed out for the girl in blue. She
laid down the half peeled tuber and
bawled a good healthy blubber
In the meantime the distracted man
ager, after a few more nerve tonics,
crept softy up the stairs and went
straight to the figure in evening dress.
II don't want you" he said and then
ran. The figure swooned. Then the
ambitious third or fourth cook Joined
her stricken companion and
THEY BOTH wEPT.
When there weep was over they decided
to leave the house with dignity, or at
least with gameness; so the guests in
the lobby were treated to the rather
startling sight Of two tear-stained
young women, with linked arms stalk
ing with a slow and stately gait
through the hotel, both whistling for
dear life. No one could tell the tune.
1t was discordant toot but it filled the
bill. The girls whistled, made faces
at the clerk and went into the street.
Hotel men in Massillon, like hotel men
elsewhere, have had experiences, but
this one caps the climax in these dig
gings.