The San Francisco call., 1913-09-04

. LAtll6 10 QdnCS- @-ECct. 3.4.
:. A GIRL about is years of age,
:. -. dressed a little too fanciful for
the business position she filled,
:: with little too much powder on her
face and her dress cut a little too
:; low in the neck, stood at the head of
80 e: A:sline of women before a bank tell
eS~s window one afternoon recently.
:: She had evidently come to make
:. her. employers daily deposit, and
:. after tho clerk had waited on her,
!. with many side remarks from her
= sfat pfainly confused him. he handed
her back her bank book and waited
for her to step out OF line.
- 4 have a tradelast for YOU" she
said in shrin 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
e bank"
: =. The face of the young man red
:. deneu. He heard the head man of that
:: department grumble; he knew his fell
: ,aow employees were laughing; and be-
:''f9re him stood that line of impatient
=: women.
: MORE TROUBLE
J: =: IT agreed with her" continued the
:. girl, her voice growing more shrill
with. the excitement OF talking to a
young man. Say, do you like music /?
g L wish you would come to my house
some evening and hear my brother
eavl ~
chords, he Isl"
The situation was growing desper-
ate, and the young man. with a very
g red face. reached out his hand over
. her head for the bank book of the
woman next in line. The girl con-
.rinued 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 ended with the silly crea-
ture 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-
cerRed. That II ended on the other
side without the young man receiving
asreprimand for something for which
che was blameless is in doubt.
This is not an unusual incident. In
day some one on the outside of the
counter engages in social talk to the
confusion and detriment of the MAJ j,
or woman, on the other side. In every
. place of business an empSoye is called
to the telephone in the busiest hours
to receive an invitation to a picnic
.; or TO be asked what he or she
Thought of the party attended the
. :r&ght before. In every business house
;some workman's 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 never q
.:pest in store. office or shop. If she
= a:anoires or likes those on the other
:'sfde Of the counter, and wishes them
we'll she Will not do them harm by
2 inj1rfng 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
haunts its scarlet petals in a corn
field. stalk of corn is a weed when
II pushes its head above the ground
In a bed Of lilies
A girl may be sweet and pretty
and attractive-a flower. in fact-but
she becomes a pest like a weed when
she haunts her charms in the wrong
place.
Women are becoming a more i'm
portant asset in the business world
every day. but with every step for
ward all their sex slip a little back
ward every time one of them for
gets. that For every thing there is
q season. and a time for every pur-
pose under heaven: a time to weep,
and a time to laugh: a time to mourn,
and time TO dance ard the time
to chatter is not during business
hours