The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-10-14
HELPLESS MAN IN SUMMER.

IT wonder how many thousands Of
men are being carried through this
summer by women? she asked medi-
tatively, turning sleeve upside down
to catch up with the fashions.
"What on earth do you mean, Mag
lets n" asked her companion, equally
intent on cutting off the tail of a sum-
mer gown to keep up with the pro-
cession.
IT mean that this town is full of
stranded men and that women are
seeing them through. I"
"What women?''
lizard working, kind hearted wo-
men. Women like ourselves, lodging
house keepers, rnistresses of boarding
houses, wash ladies. How many at
this minute have you hanging on to
your skirts 7"
"I-I haven't any. Have I got it
short enough?" She stood up hold
ing the curtailed rag to her side.
"I'd take off about an inch more
in the back. I'd like to know what
that yellow haired boy was waylaying
you in the hall for yesterday. But do
know. / knew by the absent-minded
way your hand went to your pocket.
He wanted to borrow money
"Well, he did, and I lent him So.
But he will pay me back. :"
Certainly, he will pay you in
time-when he getsa job. They are
not dead beats, any of them. They
are simply stranded.
''In one way or another almost
every woman I know is pulling two
or three men through tight places.
What else can one do?
"When young Roscoe halts at my
room door just as am getting lunch
and stands with his hands on his
stomach, I know he has had nothing
to eat and that he is hungry. That
happens at least three times week.
The other days he goes to Miss
MARITIME"
"Well, I'll admit to you that very
often the milk and food put outside
the bathroom window is gone in the
morning, and I heard Roscoe one
night say to that new man that he had
got up because he was so hungry he
couldn't sleep. When it comes to
being hungry grudge them nothing.
I'm like a wild beast when I'm
hungry, and I'd drink anybody's
milk"
'As for the women who let rooms,
they get so deeply in debt to them
that they have to keep them as host
ages. 1 know one man that owes
Mrs. Flanagan 500 room rent.
"To be sure he never knows what
he is coming home to. Now he is at
the top of the house, and now in the
basement. If she wants rug or
washstand she goes to his room and
takes it.
"But all this one might say is only
the interest on his debt. I guess he
is glad enough to put up with it."
"I know those restaurant people
chalk up a half dozen in the same
way. Poor fellows, they can't even
economic on their food, for they feel
they must put in appearance at meal
time to show their good intent.
men are so incapable. That's
what astonishes me"
cpd like to hear you tell them
that"
cit is true. If your money runs
low you make your own coffee and
launder your own clothes. But a
man goes on just the same until he
hasn't car fare. I'll bet you haven't
kept account of the car fare you have
supplied in this house this summer" +"
"I got 10 cents back the other day
that I lent Ainslie to go to William
street to answer an advertisement.
He got the place and l got my car
fare back. There, that's all right,
now isn't it :"
Maglets gave critical sweep of the
eye around the tail OF the gown.
Couldn't be better. It'll look
like new dress"
The door opened and tall girl
swept it like tornado.
"Julia You'r re worse than the west
wind. Help me pick these things up"
"Girls, congratulate me |! I've got
job. It's posing for the biograph.
"I was at my wits end, and it oc-
Cured to me that somebody must do
those things, SO / hunted up the place,
and applied. 1 am to be a spinster,
regular stage effect, and I want you
to help me out with the costume.
Were to go to the park in an
automobile, and do all sorts of stunts.
Good pay, too. They want another
man, and I proposed it to Roscoe. I
know he hasn't cent. But he said
it was too hot
"There What did I say? Julia
is woman, and she takes what she
can get rather than be idle. Roscoe
would rather be idle until he gets
what he wants.
"I idle," cried Julia. II guess
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