The Sunday globe., 1901-06-16

/ met him a dozen times since then,
and he wouldn't even look toward
me-
1 mentioned the fact that 1 had just
answered an advertisement.
"lou will find nearly all Of them
to be sent to a box, number, or initials,
They want to see who you are before
they disclose their identity. | went
with a girl once to answer an adyer-
tisement The proprietor nearly fell
dead when she told him she wanted So
a week. "Of all my people, he said,
"I only pay two of them over So, and
most Of them only get S3.'
six dollars week was more than
Russell paid his girls at his ice cream
saloon on New York avenue, when I
worked for him" put in Ida. He
made them all dress in black, with
white aprons. He had some of the
incest looking girls in the town, too.
There was Gussie, and Eva, and Katie,
and myself-four as neat looking girls
as one meets anywhere
zone dog" said Olga, put want
in the paper for girls to fold papers.
He didn't have any more use for lold-
ers than he did for wings Laura
answered it, and when she got to the
top of the stairs he made a bad break;
these yaps always strike the wrong
He told her he wouldn't
hire any girl unless she would let him
love her. She sailed down stairs,
went home and told her brother-in-
law. When they came back the fellow
had gone But she's laying for him.
There is never a parade, or a holiday,
or any event calculated to draw a
crowd that she is not looking for
him. And she o.. catch him yet, too.
These little women never let loose.
Laura is built on don't-care lines.
She'll make a scene on the street. at
his hOuse-anywhere.
81 don't blame her" said Ida.
"A lady. fully competent had agreed
TO take charge Of a gentleman's
business" ." said Olga She wanted Sl5
a week. Do you suppose said he,
4 am going to give you Sl5 week to
come down here and read the Bible to
me?' Wouldn't that loosen your gar
ter?"
"Hows that?" I asked
Merely another way of saying,
Wouldn't that jar you? 1t is need
less to add she is not doing business
at that stand this season.
A constant series of insults could
have but one ending, I should think,
said l.
No, IN tell you what drives a
girl to the bad. Insults will never do
it. There are those, who have never
graduated from the school we call eX-
perience. who imagine it's the wO-
mans desire for fine clothes. know
a verse:
you wouldn't think it, but l well re-
member
When in the city not a shyer maid
Could well be found. No eye so bright
and tender
No sweeter smile on girlhood lips
ere played.
But somehow-well twas dress and
dazzling glimpses
OF wealth and station held before
her view,
And now she passes-Clothed in silks
and laces-
Stunned by the many-courted by
the few
That's the popular idea, but they
are wrong--dead wrong One reason
why the girl goes down the long road
n, because she has no place to receive
her company; no place in which to
her gentlemen callers. The
at home may not be all that
is desired-a cross father, sick mo-
Their crying little ones. She is driven
70 the street corners and the parks.
I know a couple who for courtship
utilized the vacant rooms Of
an apartment house Had any one
seen them they could not help but be
suspicious; but to my mind they were
as innocent as the unborn babe. De-
liver me from the parks. The small
boy yells, Break away! at the slight
est provocation.
A disgusting sight to me is to see
fellow on a park bench nesting like
a sick kitten to a hot brick.
Where did you get that sentence?'
asked Ida.
ITS a verse I wrote once" she re-
piled.
"Oh. do you write poetry?' said l..
"I have made a numbeC of efforts in
that direction myself. Let's hear it,"
This is not pretentious enough to
be called poetry. 1t goes something an
ter this fasnlon:
Knew a little lassie-read in the Bible
class
Kinder mashed myself, but we'll let
that pass
Lovers she'd a plenty, sweethearts by
the score,
But she took to a duffer that clerked
in a candy store;
And he reciprocated Can you blame
him? Nix
Anymorsn a kitten nesting to hot
bricks.
Piped them off one eVentng-thought
no one was near
First he called her ducky; then she
called him dear.
Then they feh to kissiA, jest like Liz
and me;
Church folks only human-ain't going
to bite you-see
one doesn't care to purchase in
sccticides in wholesale quantities. Be
sfdes, the parks are full of coons,
"I didn't see any. | was in three or
four small parks yesterday, said |.
BY 'Soons' ! mean niggers. They
go early, and hold down all the choice
benches
81 never go i'm the parks, said Ida.
The atmosphere there doesn't agree
with my frizzes'
When the bicycle craze came along
ir helped matters a little. In nice
weather couples could take their
wheels and find a place to SIT down
along any of the roads leading to the
city Bad weather comes,and the sit
uation is worse than before, whiol
srings to mind one d the saddest in
cidents / ever encountered. One
,g,J,t "a Iona, tipna On aFtnr her rom,