Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-11-20
Help the Weary Shop Girl
To Enjoy Her Christmas

uVcrtine-Mith supper money" ~
FIRST only two nights week tili 10
O'Clock. Then three nlghts-~and IN tho
last stretch six nights week TN If
o'clock. one girl sold toys, tho othor
wrapped 'cm W. The pace was fast
and never let up.
rs that package or mine never COM
ingf can't YOU hurry Il upg"
The girl who wrapped ON up grew
sick. Not really sick" but enough to
make both sisters nervous. Three
nights ago. Il grew bad enough SO that
on the way home at IL D. m "she
couldn't walk quite straight" Her
sister had To- help her.
IL SHE QUIT WORK.
They had faced the thing that night
faced the th.ng TN a. m. The objce-
ton 10 her quitting work was this.
Last winter New York had 200 eco out
OF work. II she threw up her lob she
might not get u back. n she DIDN'T
goodbye 10 that regular home" They
round n way out. The name Of the
way ! needn't give. II was one OF the
worst OF the patent nerve tonics. Aud
the thing worked at first Ike u charm.
she hardly needed meals even-snd
simply sailed along" until the day be-
fore Christi~as.
Something began TO happen Inside
that afternoon. Il happened more eurh
hour. BY O'Clock at night IL was bad
enough for her to lean Gown from her
Wrappers perch and tell her sister 10
Keep one eye on her--,n case anyth.ag
queer SHOULD take place
The queer thing took place about "a
o'clock. An ambulance had been sum
moned. And that was about an that
the oldor girl could tell me-excrpt
that her sister had been like this A.
soon as they reached the room IT had
scared her and she had come to me.
BY now. il was near - O'clock
writer Ike Dickens suppose. at
this stage iu the game would have gone
TO the window, stared silently out a.
the city with eyes that saw into a mil-
Hon homes. into mistlutoe scenes and
the like. Would have felt the grcat
hush that lay over the town" For IN
few minutes the hour would strife
and Christmas day. with its message
OF peace and good will 70 men" would
begin. But I was only a doctor-wth
a damnably bitter message TO give. And
standing by the window I only racksd
my brains for some other way out OF
the trouble
"Well?" she asked from behind me.
ITS nervous prOstration and a bad
case. She'll have to quit work. go to
the country and stay there get a good
rest. Two months at least"
How she asked.
WAS 1T MERRY CHRIsTMAsgo
This Of course was the trouble. [
went over IL all in my mind again
Hospitals won't take such cases-thev
are Overcrowded at this time OF year
Charitable organizations won't send d
girl to the country for two months
free when the girl has SlS saved. At
least not last winter. There were too
many sick girls who hadn't a cent And
what money / had. ] had already used
Have you no relatives"
None"
There was one OF those long mean
silences.
"You mean that s4s. she said
I'm sorry. Yes"
Another tense silence. She was quiet
enough.
We'll" she said. then it can't be
helped. Anyhow. thanks for coming
so late at night. Perhaps you can
come again tomorrow and tell me where
to send her. What ought l to give her
tonight?"
As / was giving few brief diree-
tons, the midnight bells began 10
strike.
Some fool across the courtyard threw
open wide his window and shoute I
Merry Christmas!' to somebody ROOM
ing down below.
Yes, the girl pulled through. II wiped
out the money. OF course. They're liv-
The younger one got back her job in
May.
In August she came to me for a