The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-30
Our Daily Sport Story

flats here on earth. but he intended to take them with him when he died. He seemed to have a deeded right to the freight elevator and light-shaft. All the folks in the building fell all over themselves to prove not only they res pected him as friends and brothers, but revered him as high Mogul. The rail road clerk in the top flat was afraid of him and would have named the baby after him If it hadn't been a girl A lady in the top flat named her dog after him. So when we called Bill" 1t was the dog alone that usually responded.
 At this time l was going with Charley Tapper, the drug clerk. never liked Charley. He had no money and he was an all-round fourf1usher But he put up such a swell front that we pared off nicely. and I rather enjoyed being seen with him. But the janitor had him skinned to death when 1t came to looks. began to think that if the janitor and could walk around the block together or out to the park in our Sunday togs we would certainly make hit. No one need know that he was janitor. You would never guess 1t unless you were told. You would have planked down your dollars that he was d trust mil lionaire He looked just like one. The only difference was he didn't have the money.
 The servants in the building were daffy about him. A big Swede girl made sky-blue sofa pillows for him. A pudgy German girl waited on him with needles and thread, sewed on his buttons and hung around him like a little poodle. A small. pasty faced Irish girl loaded him with snap shots and tintypes of her self Besides, he had the affectionate interest of casual washwoman and scrubwoman 4l,-t t..F~ L,,tt n seemed to crowbar after him with brazen gall Among other things. he was a cold janitor. He had a strong sense of propriety and talked a great deal about the weather. He never let one of them know where she was at He had them all guessing
 Now I am clever. I have been in terested in clothes as far back as I can remember, and I have good ideas Of course. not all the time, but most gener- ally, I am awfully clever. I think the only way to win a mans affections is to make him wait on you a lot and be sort of girlishly thoughtless about asking him to do so. did not make sofa pill lows for him nor sew on his buttons nor bestow my pictures upon him. But I had a regular method of keeping him interested in me. I would whistle for him down the speaking tube and ask
 
 three flights of stairs to our kitchen door I would ask him for the correct time. Then 1 would set my watch at whatever time he said it was And when I would tell him that was all wanted he would smile in the queerest way and anyone could see that he res pected me more and more. By the time he reached the basement ] would whis- tie down to find out if the iceman had vat In in, tec would whistle down again to find out If he wouldn't send up some more steam. And after while I would call him up again and ask him If he would come up and turn on one of the radiators. When he was around I would prattle to him. I am good talker. and when I want to can be very intertaining. I told him about my profession, how much of a lady amand how have my mothers lady am and how I have my mother's 8 ideas and my fathers walk. And he would smile and be interested.
 I was in the laundry one day when the Irish girl came In and disputed impertinently over my rights to the clothesline at the particular hour on that particular day. She stated that she would take a fall out of me- I am not a coward, and I stood my ground bravely. In other words. she didn't faze me a bit, and I dared her to come on. She doubled up her fists and made for me. She landed an upper-cut on my jaw like a man. Most girls make for | your hair with one hand and your eyes with the other, that I was not pre- l pared for her unlady like attack. But l managed to get away without leave | ing more of myself than my neck ribbon and a few strands of my hair.
 The janitor had heard my screams
 and knowing my voice. of course. he came to the rescue. But the SWede | girl and a scrubwoman butted in. When | started to faint in the janitor's arms
 my dress caught on the scrubwoman's | bucket and the Swede made grab fol
 me. But nevertheless I keeled ovel
 against the mans bluejeaned bosom
 and tied my breath up in knots and Tel
 them have a few gasps at time.
 As I said I am very clever. It toof | a long time for me to be restored. In th' meantime. they carried me to the freigh
 elevator in the back part of the base
 ment and they laid me in 1t with thu
 gunnysack under my head. l began tt
 sob, Then they pulled the ropes an'
 the elevator went up into such cols draught of air that I began to sob 1T
 earnest. My earnest sobs do not soun'
 nearly so pretty as my imitation sobs. | learned how to sob at the theatre
 learned a great deal about clothes ant l everything at the theatre. When