Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-27
love AND THE.
WICKED CITY
BY BERToN BRALEY
Illustrated by Alexander Popini
copyright, 1913, by the Newspaper
Enterprise AssocIatton.l


Enterprise AssocIation.l
Eleanor was a bright girl clerk
In the biggest store In Carvvllle She
was pretty and she was very much
alive. and she knew her business. The
owner of the Caryville store crowded
"a q week OH her for her services.
There came travelling man who
represented the wholesale department
of big city firm. While he was
waiting to talk to the manager of the
store where u eanor worked he en-
tered affably into conversation with
Eleanor, who was not very busy He
discovered in her a young woman who
understood her work thoroughly.
When he heard the amount OF
Eleanor's pay check he snorted.
-Four bucks peri" exclaimed the
travelling man, why that's a joke.
s. The city Is simply hollering for girls
who know as much about the dry
goods business as you do, and you're
wasting your talents in this hole of a
= town"
believe me-" said Eleanor, the in
nocent lite country maid. but
don't exactly sec the whysomeness Of
all this What's your gamer"
The travelling man grinned
Sister" he said, IF you don't OBJ
ject to that familiar form of saluta-
ton, I'm married and have five chill
dren, The oldest viii be your age
before long. Ill let you look me up
in all the moral Improvement socle-
ties you please, and you can write
to the firm and learn all about me.
The fact is that you're q live person
with a head on your shoulders, and
I'm always picking UP that kind Of
people for the house when I can. Ill
write you about the Job II l land 1t
for YOU"
He landed it, and that brings us to
the spcctacle-the dreadful spectacle
of country girl going to the great
city to toll for eight hours a day III
store for $12 week. She used TO work
Twelve hours for her "a in Caryville.
II True, Eleanor was not exactly in the
dark as to the DANGERS OF a
GREAT CITY. She had read all about
them in the magazines, and the local
minister. who had once been in Chi
cago before the IRE gave her plenty
4. Of warning. She was fully prepared
10 snub any man ON the train who
might wish to be nice to her, and she
had her hatpin ready IL she were
rnobbed by abductors and lidnapers
II the city terminal
= Having been warned not to take a
E cab, Eleanor abode by the warning,
hut she noticed casually that all the
~ cabs drawn up In the station bore the
name of q firm which even out in
Caryville stood for aobriety and
stability. and she thought that Ro-
nance must have departed from the
cab business as we'll. This certainly
wasn't what happened to Nellie, the
Beautiful Cloak Model nor 10 the
neroines of those masterpieces which
~ she had cried over at home.
aIt f.,I1 1.r at,aI, f.,
take, and she boarded 1t. Here, aiso,
there were plenty of young men, but
they apparently did not know she was
on the car, for the seats We're full
and they busted themselves In their
papers that they might not notice her.
y Eleanor was growing almost impa-
tient. She didn't see why something
couldn't happen that she had been
warned against. The boarding house
10 which she had been directed after
she stepped off the car was very re-
spectacle looking.
uilson, the manager of the little
ycountry store from which she had
come, had once kissed her when she
stayed overtime 10 help him on the
books, and the son of the owner had
tried TO get her fired when she re-
fused to go buggy riding with him,
and, II these were village ways, she
knew what the fcity store would
bring. OF course she did. She had
planned exactly how she was going
to repel the advances of the floor
walker and, perhaps, of the depart
ment manager In her new job. and
she had made up her mind as TO the
best method of disposing of the rich
young roues who would probably loi-
ter about her counter.
The trouble was that there were no
advances TO repel. The fioorwalker
{ was forty five and married, the de-
partment manager was too busy TO
notice every new girl In the place,
and the rich young men never loi-
tered except to match the samples
they had been asked to match by
their wives or their fiancees.
She surveyed herself in the mirror
10 see II her attractions had van
ighed. but, though she didn't, as she
put II, throw any bouquets at my
self" she found she was as good
looking as overland that was pretty
good looking.
Kid said the YOU mar who
sold linens at the counter across from
hers-this was at the end OF u week.
what do you say TO us in couple-a
seats in the balcony for the Hidden
Princess tonight, and maybe little
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