The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-07-26
A TIME TO DANCE
BY Beatrice Fairfax


and a time for every purpose unde
heaven; time to weep and TIME
TO laugh; time to mourn and
time to dance. "--Eccl 3:i
A girl about eighteen years Of age
dressed a little too fanciful 70" nc
business pos ton she filed with
little too much powder on her face
and her dress cut a little too low in
the neck stood at the head cf a Inc
of women before bank teller's win
dow one afternoon recently.
She had evidently come 70 make
her employers daily deposit ana a'>.
e. the clerk had waited on her. W tn
many side remarks from her t'-t
plainly confused him, he handed he~
back her bank book and waited 10
her to step out of line.
II have trade last for you, sns
said in shrill voice.
The other clerks looked amuse1;
the women in line grew impatient
THE girl who was up here yesteT
day with the deposit said sac thought
you we're the best looking man In
the bank"
The face of the young man red
dened. He heard the head man OF
that department grumble, he knew HE
fellow employees were laughing; and
before him stood that line of impa-
tient women.
Il agreed with her." continued the
girl, her voice growing more slrill
with the excitement of talking to a
young man. Say, do you like music?
! 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 desper.
ate and the young man with a very
red face reached out his hand over
her head for the bank book of the
woman next in line. The girl con.
tinued to chatter until the woman be-
hind her, enjoying a privilege her sex
gave her, but which is sometimes un-
fortunately denied to men, pushed
the girl away from the window and
the episode ended with the silly crea-
ture walking out, complaining audi
bly, of the rudeness of the other wo
man.
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 receiv-
ing Il reprimand for something for
which he was blameless is in doubt.
This is not an unusual incident. In
every business house dozen times a
day some one on the outside of the
counter engages in social talk to the
confus on and detriment or the man
or woman on the other side. In every
place of business an employee Is
called to the telephone in the bust
est hours to receive an invitation to
a picnic or to be asked what he or
she thought of the party attended the
night before. In every business house
some workmans time Is taken and
mind distracted by the silly chatter
of the unemployed.
There is a time to dance" and
the girl who remembers this is new
er pest in store, office or shop. II
she admires or likes those on the
other side OF the counter, and wish
es them well, she will not do them
harm by injuring them in the eyes
OF the men who employ them.
A Weed
A good definition of weed might
be, ANY plant growing in the wronl
place" A poppy is weed When il
flaunts its scarlet peta,s in a corr
field. A stalk of corn is weed wheI
pushes its head above the grount
n a bed Of lilies.
A girl may be sweet and prett!
and attractive-a flower in fact-bu
she becomes pest like weed whel
she faunts her charms in the wron
place.
Women are becoming more in
portant asset in the business worl
every day, but with every step fol
ward all their sex slip a little bacl
ward every time one of them forget
that For everything there is a set
son and a time for every purpose VI
der heaven; a time to weep, and
time to laugh; time to mourn an
time to dance" and the time I
chatter is not during business hours