Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1907-07-24

us good food and pretty mattresses, If
90 say it. No women is allowed In
there at all, and yer can bet rs girls
used TO thank our stars for that A
woman II come in. yer know, and set
ooWn ana look at the menco anywhere
from ten to 20 minutes. Then she'll
say, 4 guess III have an eclaiT--no.
charlotte rache,-and does bread and
putter so with it?" and then when yer
sit haf way out 10 the kitchen she'll
shout at yer. Say. come back a min
ute; changed my mind / guess
VIII have an cellar after all"
Well, Mr.. Robinson, he said he
couldn't be bothered by nothin like
that, so he just catered to the business
men, an say. he done a pile of bust
ness. They'd flock in there noontim IS
as. thick as women TO bargain sale.
AS / said. We had the best lookia'
mattresses in town and though we was
all fair-lookeTs, Rose Noonan and
Name McMann was the prize beauties
Oh the bunch. They was about of a
prettiness, the one bein' light and the
other dark. Completed
Rose was an awful pretty girl. Just
like a dawl. pink and white. but it was
Name that had the tongue for yer.
Say, she'd keep her customers in roars.
and as soon as not, if ever they got
too fresh, she'd lean over and give EN-
good swipe across the face with her
hand
Wen, this Mr.. Leighton that used to
come was Names customer, and a real
nice gentleman he was, too | don't
know Just what he done, but he was
some Kind of broker, | think Some
OF the E1en that come in there used to
be kind of Flip with the girls, askin'
insinnatin' questions, and tellin'
stories. This Mr.. Leighton was never
like that. And he wasn't afraid Of a
good, fat tip, neither.
Wei, one day he come in and
Names seats was all full. so he goes
Up and sits down by Rose. The next
thing l notice, he is settin' there all
the time, and Rose and Name amt
speakin'l
he got in way of comm after the
rush hour was over, and sittin' way
up at the end of the counter. and
"hlle he was eatin' he'd talk TO Rose
as serious, and she'd listen as earnest
TO everything he said. | used TO won
der what in time they were gabbin'
about, and | used TO so slow past EN-
10 hear. 1t seemed to be mostly about
DOCKS, and every now and then he
was brinSin' her a new book.
Rose always was awful studious.
she was always tryin' TO learn some
thing. could see 1t in her eye that
she didn't mean to be a waitress the
rest of her life.
Mr.. Leighton had a way of bringin'
her a flower, too pretty near every
day,-one of them thick-stemmed big
cabbage-roses. Once | heard him say
in TO her, This is the kind of rose
that puts me in mind of you. You
amt like wild rose. nor a tea rose
but you're strong and Vigorous and
CLOWN like this one says he.
After that Name she got as mean as
dirt TO Rose. Seemed as if there
want nothin' she wouldn't do to tor
ment her if she could Shed steal her
orders out in the kitchen; she'd hide
her check punch on her; she'd run
into her and spill a whole cup of cot.
fee down the front of a nice. clean
apron and shirt waist That means
something, too, when you're Twin on
yourself in the city. and payin' %
cents for the washin' of every clean
waist you put on yer back. Once
she come pell-mell through the swing
in doors,-she could see right well
through the little glass winder who
was on the other side, don't tell me
she couldn't, and she run right plumb
into Rose and made her drop her trav.
and every blessed thing on It was
smashed. OF course Rose was locked
that out of her pay.
little line would come between
her two eyes, and her cheeks would
grow reddcr. but she never said a
word back. She wouldn't give Name
that satisfaction.
one day Name and Rose had an
awful set-to. ! never seen Rose spunk
up the way she did that time. She
was just bringing in an order. an
Name jostled into her. so IT spilled All
over everything and was spoiled
Well. she never tipped. but She went
out and she got another order. The
boss. he see she'd spoiled the first one
and he pitched into her, an told her
she had ne call to be so careless. and
then she went into the customer. and
he pitched into her, too. an asked her
didn't she think he had nJthin' better
60 do than sit out there over half an
hour waitin
Say. ] was sorry for the girl. She
didn't sass him back, either. but she
walked out into the kitchen again.
and her face was that white way down
TO her lips, yer could tell something
was goin' TO happen.
She walked straight up to Name
and she says to her: