The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-07-27
The Diary Of
Nervy Ethe!

store on one of the State street corners
S. and thought maybe he could put m,
next to something in the way of a job
b SO ! stopped in and asked him II he
7 knew of anything.
| nearly fell dead when he said that
f; the proprietor of that very joint had
been looking for girl to do demon
strating and that ! would fiji the place
! 10 Z It" He gave me a knockdown
) to the boss, and we cinched the mat
ter right on the spot. I'm to start in
, tomorrow
} II looks dead easy, but | don't know
} how I'm going to like being on exhi-
bition wouldn't mind. if | was a
peach to look at, but don't think a
pug nose is a very good place to show
off a layer of face dope and beauty
powder
But it's UP to them, and as long as
they're satisfied I've got no room TO
kick
Tuesday. Wow nut | did feel fun
ny to-day! logged mp with a peek-a-
boo waist on, sitting in downtown
window and looking pleasant till my
! mouth ached.
My stunt is to sit in front of swell
little dressing table that's all trimmed
| up With fluffy cushions and silver
/ toilet articles and smear my face with
| The same old cold cream that's fixed up
with new name dip soft rag into
the box Of greasy stuff and daintily
mop my face with Il, carefully keeping
out Of the way Of my mouth, because
II doesn't taste good After it's rubbed
in-you bet | put on mighty little
take mp a dinky little lace-trimmed
Chamois and evenly apply the pow
der" as the directions say All this
time | have a handglass in my other /
hand and when I'm looking at myself /
as if like tim smiling at the rub
berneCks on the sidewalk, as if | was /
awfully stuck on myself
If stay at this long III either get /
TO thinking I'm "beaut' or else ! win ,
get so sick AT the sight of my phiz that |
m enter a convent, where they don't .
allow mirrors.
Wednesday-Of course. couldn't /
miss getting my regular caldown
Talk about Friday being an unlucky
day-I'd like to strike Wednesday off
the alendar And it was all ON ac-
count of Name Curtis.
She came along the street and
caught sight OF me in the window Her
mouth opened wide enough to scare
anybody and she began talking to me
OF course, | knew what she was say
ing, although | couldn't hear her. but
she couldn't make out what said !
stopped monkeying with my face and
began talking to her on my fingers.
There wasn't anybody else outside and
we were having a nice little confab,
which who should pass the window
but the manager on his way from
lunch, felt awfully silly and he
looked as If he could take my head off.
He didn't say anything to me right
away. but when was leaving the
store at six O'Clock he gave me a great
big piece of his mind don't care |
| piled il on to Name Curtis just the
same and she thinks am making
money hand over fist
bet she'd like this job, because
she'd rather be looked at than eat
Thursday thing of trying 10
look beautiful all day long is wearing
me to a fragile But I'm lucky to get
out of talking about the stuff. II sure /
would go against the grain 10 stand up
the way some OF these demonstrators
do and have TO spiel of lot Of yarns
about the wonders that this goo-y mix
ture worked in my complexion when
hadn't ever heard OF IL before. And
It's always the homely, wrinkled old
maids who buy Il, and I'd feel like
was cheating them
Friday.-Gee, but I've had a strenu-
1us evening. Just because a few but
inskys think they have right 10
NEEDLE in my affairs, And the com
oination was fright Charley and
he preacher. This morning who
should come along the street and rub
Der mp a the window but the preacher
)f our church. and he threw NJ right
hen and there he marched into the
store and started 20 make a scene and
he boys bad TO fairly put him ont Of
he place he couldn't see me there.
20 he came out rs the house tonight
ind raked pa and ma over the Goals
Tor letting me take such a Job and
blew me mp for fair. Charley sat there
and took n an in and when the old
attle-taie had gone he dr. in I felt
ike telling him to mind his own bust
ness. but like his caring and don't
want 10 make him sore.
I'm afraid it's me for another Job.
Saturday Sure. Mike, I wonder
What they take me for anyway. I'm
10 made ! could pop. The boss came
10 me to-day and said that my week
with the face dope stunt was up. but
hat they'd like 10 have b. stay right
IN and demonstrate again for them
ssked him what he was putting me un ,
,gainst this time and when he told me
nearly tainted. he said he had now
.tyle Of corn piasters that De wanted
r. put on the market-aud incidentally
IN my fOut-and also "a special elastic
inkle bandage that he wanted shown