The evening world., 1912-04-24
GENERAL RALLY OF ALL KINDS
OF WAGE FARMERS.

etenographers. ~saleswomen. telegraph
m telephone operators. bookkeepers,
factory Operators. cash girls, detach.
ments from almost every company In
New York's great brigade OF wage
earning women. nave united forces 10
make . successful show. or cash girls
alone there are l23 In the Vacation say.
tngs Fund; Dlue-eyed slips OF things.
their hair hanging In pigtails. their
skirts at their knees.
Most of them are smaller and GER
tainly look younger than your kid
lister who enters the grammar grade
next fall. I thought at first. when I
nav them NJ rehearsal. that they were
school children. who had come to wat IN
their big sisters act" But I was told
that these babies are working women"
working for the gigantic salary OF 50. 10
. week. My informant happened to be
Miss Anne Morgan. and I distinctly I'M
dertsood her to d that II was AN
outrage"
But I've saved s?.2 already" one
Of the $40 workers assured me, hap
pdly. And I've only been saving since
last falll Pretty ne" riy every week ]
~ put away a whole nickel. and some.
dimes It's ten cents" Wonders. you see,
may still be wrought.
GIRLS HAVE SAVED UP NEARLY
$4,000.
Incidentally. there are about 1000 girl
members Of the Vacation Savings Fund.
and they have accumulated nearly
$4,000.
But I an forgetting about the most
important thing Just now-the show.
Nobody, h has seen even the rehearsal
70 going to forget II. Even Miss Nor
. halted her fine Indignation mt the
$50 a week as q 'liylhg wage" to smile
broadly as the little cash girl chorus
tr3pped across the stage. Now. just sec
TOR yourself what they can dol" she
commanded.
And ] saw It wouldn't DO to tell too
much beforehand. but the show Is GER
tainly a delightful piece of work. The
scene is laid in Father Haysced's
meadow. and. the whole AFFAIR Is on
musical comedy lines. with n good-slzed
chorus. All the girls In the chorus. BY
the way. come from the American Bank
note Company, and are accustomed 10
ang1ng together at each others family
parties.
Al the beginning Of the play a number
OF the city girls. who are on their vaca-
tion. come dancing into the hay field.
HDposink an lupronptu entertainment
They promptly enlist the services Of a
hand OF milkmaids. a couple of gypsies
= a little negro kitchen girl. They
are also Joined by a company Of tiny
cash girls.
oiRls DO THEIR WORK LIKE
PROFESSIONALS.
Everybody iras her own little stunt.
ed does II with truly professional grac,
and composure.
The play Is nothing but a skit 4
show on the exceedingly worth Will,
talents OF the girls coufesses IN,
anthor. Mrs. Bacon. II never saw any
thing IKE them! All you have to do
- tell them to do a thing In "a certali
way. and they succeed the first tim
trying. We have had barely half a doze
yehearsals. and ye; all the girls act wit
\ most charming grace and abandon
Zone does a Flemish dance. anothe
IN Irish Jig. another n rag hnothe
= love song. and % on. have dis
severed mt least two excellent voices
one q soprano. the other a contraltc
and n girl plays the violin qui,
wonderfully. It's a pleasure TO wor
With them-they have lurcd me srot
my farm. you see"
And then l asked Miss MillicaAt A
Waterhouse what she though, abou
H. b II the girl vino is chairman O