El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-07-21

TO dance-"-EccI. ga.
A GIRL about IS 2ears OF age,
II dressed a little too fanciful for
the business position she filled,
with a little too much powder on
her face. and her dress cut a little
too low in the nscks ST Cd at the head
of line of women before a bank tel
ler's window one afternoon recently.
She had evidently come to make her
employers daily deposit, and after the
clerk had waited on her, with many
side remarks from her that plainly
confused him. re handed her back her
bank book and waited for her to step
out of line
'I have a tradelast for you" she
said in q shrill voice
The other clerks looked amused; the
women in line grew impatient
The girl who was up here yester-
day with the deposit said she thought
you were the best looking man in the
The face of the young man red
dened- He heard the head man OF
that department grumble; he knew
his fellow employees were laughing;
and before him stood that line OF i'm
patient women.
More Trouble.
7 agreed with her" continued the
girl, her voice growing more shrin
with the excitement Of talking to a
young man. say, do you like music?
I wish you would come to my house
some evening and hear my brother
sing. Oh, he's a peach with his vocal
chords, he isl"
The situation was growing des-
perate, and the young man with very
red face reached out his hand over her
head for the bank book OF the Wom-
an next In line. The girl continued
to chatter until the woman behind her,
enjoying a privilege her sex gave her,
but which is sometimes unfortunately
denied to men, pushed the girl away
from the window, and the episode end
ed with the silly creature walking out,
complaining audibly of the rudeness OF
the other woman
That is. the episode ended so far
as the outside of the window is con-
cerned- That it ended on the other
side without the young man receiving
a reprimand for something for which
he was blameless is in doubt.
This is not an unusual incident In
every business house a dozen times a
day some one on the outside of the
counter engages in social talk to the
confusion and detriment of the man,
or woman, on the other side. In every
place of business an employee is called
TO the telephone in the busiesC hours
to receive an invitation to ! picnic
or to be asked what he or she thought
OF the party attended the night before
In every business house, some work
mans time is taken and mind dis
traeted by the silly chatter Of the IN
employed.
There is a time to Dance and the
girl who remembers this is never a
pest in store, office or shop. II she
admirs or likes those on the other
side of the counter, and wishes them
well, she will not do them harm by
injuring them in the eyes OF the man
who employs them.
A weed.
A good definition of a weed might
be, ANY plant growing in the wrong
place" poppy is a weed when It
flaunts its scarlet petals in a corn field.
A stalk of corn is a weed when it
pushes its head above the ground in
a bed of lilies.
A girl may be sweet and pretty and
attractive flower, in faCt-but she
becomes a pest like a weed when she
flaunts her charms in the wrong place
Women are becoming a more Import
ant asset in the business world every
day but with every step forward all
their sex slip a little backward every
time one of them forgets that for
every thing there is a season. and a
time for every purpose under heaven;
a time to weep, and q time to laugh;
a time to mourn and a time to dance
and the time to chatter is not during
business hours