The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-24
80 Toil in an Weathers.


They are there to earn a living. BY
their help are three homes maintained
In rain or sunshine. If they would hold
their trade they must sell papers some
have been i'm the business longer than
others. All have traits and qualities
that appeal. They are simply girls
taken from the Kindergarten period of
existence to enter into the commercial
struggle. And they have all absorbed
10 a greater or lesser extent from their
experience as "ucvsieS' q happy-g0-
lucky view of life That lends them a
certain peruess,
They can drop a conversation on the
color or cut of their aprons 10 answer
q sally from some rival seller of the
/ opposite sex. or 10 run i'm response TO a
whistle to dispose of paper.
Little Clara Higham. sunny haired
and city tanneS. is probably the best
known of the quaresrte-s For years
she has sold papers morning and even
ing i'm the vicinity OF the Wilson hotel.
She has acquainted herself during this
time with thousands of tourists and
/ has become "a familiar sight 20 every
/ Salt Laker having business in that
ueighborhoOd. To the hotel attaches
/ she is known as THE kid" and again
as plain Clara.
Clara Higham Tells Her Story.
Naturally. during her two years
range of the public streets she has
! formed her own ideas as To the public
and her relation 90 it, She has been
/ constituted by her sister 'neWsies' q
| leader. Her experience warrants this.
( even We're fl not for the tact and abii-
iry that is hers and that qualities her
( for the place. She consented rather
unwillingly yesterday afternoon to have
{ her picture taken until she learned that
( it was to be published and might prove
/ a good business proposition. And then
/ she admitted that she had not had a
/ picture taken since she was "a kid
/ and consented to talk about her inter
/ csting self and class.
IT'S two years. now since I began
/ selling papers, she stated Both
mornings and afternoons, you know.
No, Of course don't go to school,
/ she answered to an interruptiug query.
+ How could - You see. papa died sew
I eraI- years ago and left me aud mamma
/ all alone, so j had 10 do something.
( BY trying hard I can make a couple
I Of dollars every day Sometimes a
+ fellowU give us moreu change.
/ "This block around the hotels has
/ been my beat for a long time Lots
/ Of people know me. I guess. and OF
/ course there are some Of my customers
/ that are regulars. j never went to
/ school hardly at all and &c would seem
aWfuHy hard to start in now.
Fond Of Her Life.
This is lots of fun usually. aud the
3 time passes pretty quick. Now that
+ the summer is coming ON we can sell
+ q lot Of papers. cause people are out
/ on the streets most of the time. ] do
/ as good as lots Of the boys.
There are three other girls I know
( of that sell papers. ] know Tillic
/ Coates best. She has the corner right
/ above me, and we divide on hotels.
Everybody treats us pretty good I
don't see why they oughtn't TO.
My mother is Mrs. Anna C.. Higham
and we live at 1875 @ street.
At this juncture in little Miss High-
ans conversation she rushed away 90
. dispose of a daily. ON the way back
I she passed a patron who had already
/ purchased his paper.
Gee, you're peach. she called.
: Thought you were g0in 10 get it OF
I me-"
/ Nhereat the chided one squared him
4 self by getting another copy.
/ Others send us slow accounts. Why
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