Sunday morning globe., 1901-09-08

she had Said she couldn't do any
! business at all, so she rented a house
over i'm Allegheny; then she put an adj
yertisement i'm the Dispatch she want
ed a lady acquainted with massage
parlor work. A stout girl, not bad
looking, came in answer thereto
What do you pay an ASSISTANT she
asked I don't need an assistant: /
am able to do all my own work.
"a Then what did you put that want I'm
the paper for% 4 need a sorter: not
an assistant"
What's a sorter?' Zaide and ask.
ed I'm chorus.
"She wanted same one to sort out
the sheep from the goats; the beats
from the gentlemen; So after learning
that the girl had worked I'm nearly
. every massage parlor i'm the city, she
hired her to do nothing but sit on an
upper window. where she could COM
mand a view of every person entering
/ the front gate If the man was all
right she would so signal the proprie-
tress and she would let him I'm; If not.
the lady Of the house would answer
the bell and say she was very busy Just
! at that moment; he must call again
Some of those chair sweaters did call
three or four times. she told me. but
she finally succeeded i'm sorting them
out"
"That reminds me- said Zaida, "of
an incident just after 7 opened shop
I'm Cleveland. 7 secured a location i'm
n downtown office building just off Of
Superior street. Got fairly settled,
when a sawed-off, hammered down
specimen Of humanity entered. He
kept eyeing me and I could tell i'm a
second he didn't want his fortune told.
In a few moments he made a bad
break; 1t is not necessary to repeat his
language. 7 hustled him out of there
I'm short order Then I locked the door
and sought relief i'm the channel usual
with a woman good cry. I said TO
myself, 7 suppose will be subjected
to the same treatment I'm every town
until I educate the public up to the
fact 7 am trying 10 make an honest
living 7 was wiping my tears away
when there came a rap at the door.
7 opened it. and to nv surprise there
stood the Individual 7 had lust fired,
smiling. hat I'm hand. You here
again" 7 inquired Yes he replied.
Il thought you might a changed your
mind I slammed the door i'm his
face"
"I was two davs in Baltimore on
this trip" said Miss Ashton. &C.
big bill Of goods-hose underwear, |
and so forth-to Madame Leroy. She's |
been there a long time, is generally I
hard up. and I couldn't account for the |
wave Of prosperity. so I asked her |
how it came about She said she put |
lady assistant at the bottom Of her
personal in the Herald. She didn't
have a sign Of an assistant. so she
managed it like this. If the caller was
an acquaintance she would tell him
the assistant did not come down to-
day; that she could never depend upon
those girls. If a stranger, she would
say. as she ushered him into the par
lOr. that she was the assistant that
the lady Of the house had gone to
market and would not be back for an
hour or more. She wore her hair I'm
two plaits down her back, and in the
semi-darkness one would willingly
make affidavit she was just out Of her
teens. She looked the part"
How did you happen to take up a
vocation Miss Ashton" I
inquired. 'I have the acquaintance Of
scores in the profession, but they are
all males"
Had to make a living" was her re-
ply. "By the way. I always have
kindly regard for Washington. II was
here I got my start-my stake to en-
gage I'm business, as it were Early in
life I was stage struck. I blew into
New York City and after numerous
ups and downs, 7 secured an engage
ment with a little troupe just taking
The road We called IL the Bohemian
Comedy Company; the natives called {
t a leg show. We did a couple Of ]
sketches I'm one of which took an old
woman part. 7 exhausted my excheq-
Ter in the purchase Of that warrobe, /
lut it was a gem-wig, glasses, cap y
outfit complete. From New York we I
sailed. our destination being Norfolk, /
Va. We played a number of towns on v
he Eastern sho' TO Indifferent busi- }
ness. Finally we reached Washington (
put In a week at the house now known I
is the Academy, and realized we were q
stranded. Saturday night the maR- q
iger conveyed the intelligence the d
ghost would fail 20 walk. Sunday we Z
leld a meeting and counted noses a
our males and twelve females. 1t was a
'eported to the conference that the q
andlady had declared, with some We. q
lemence that the Monday morning D
breakfast would be the last meal we a
would eat I'm that house. ! had made C
ip my mind, while I'm bed Saturday D
hight, TO open "a matrimonial agency. v
mentioned the proposition TO two or ,
hree Of the ladies', telling them they s
.ould be Of material assistance and j
hat / would give them one-half Of the t
proceeds. None Of them would listen
o it; they know nothing, could see t
lothing but New York. Back there b
hey must go as speedily as possible" Z
your idea was TO find them hus-
Dands through the agency you were TO O
onduct?' I inquired. b