Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-20


gone eight weeks No doubt she would be fully ready
with her answer by his return.
Miss Ellsworth read the note aboard the eight
twenty three, on her to the office Would she? she
wondered vaguely 1t was hard to say.
SOMEWAY, Delaney and his motor slipped farther
and farther into the misty background of her mind
in the days that folowed-active. flying days packed
with joyous labor; for life surging high Not the
little life of sated almonds and golf sticks but the
real life of paper cuffs and all Paper Specials and proofs
be o. K d and corrected for papers going to
press,a life of daily stress and strvngs, beset by end
less obstacles but with great overinsistent daily
goal to get out the page time and one allsatisfying
nightly reward to buy copy of "The Star each
ing-ust to make really there and then take
a the fve-twenty three and watch her fell
low passengers reading it the way home to dinner
Know the Gods any keener thrill?
There was Merchandise, of course much Merchandise
to learn; but, since all things buyabe fall within
classes, those do do not want for Some Day
Future Home, viewed from this angle nineteen
cent aprons and birdseye sheeting gain pquant and
subtle interest.
But don't fancy there was any lack of human material
which to keep ones hand Starting with the Office
there Frank and Freces, the two office boys. and
knight and Cafin in the artists and six young
Sign Artists yearnng to be subugaed. AMI two elevator
men, and forty-seven Heads of Department. these
last by official rating Buyers of Merchandise but
by early discovery well. and as such delightfully."-
tractable to the influence of nineteen and dImpleS.
Oh, it glorious world With increasing ardor,
Miss Ellsworth awoke the rapturous realization that
she fast becoming Parsonage in that store world
which both nclOses and excludes every other To her
armament of commas added the colon and the
senicolon. She had handled the items of the White
Sale last week with distinction and written "Replen-
is Your Kitchen heading that brough you downtown,
Madam post haste from the breakfast table without
waiting for your second cup of coffee. She had five de-
partments her very own,-Infants Wear, Girls
Wear, Petticoats Corsets Blouses six, counting Wall
Papers. And that brings up with story.
THERE something wrong with Wall Papers.
The Advertising Manager had been bewaling it for
weeks Peters seemed dopy tired, content to sit back
and let Business come without wooing, perious
dton of mind these days. 1t three weeks running
that Peters had had to be reminded that Monday
A NJ. copy simply must be up by Thursday at four
thirty, and here it Friday almost eevenand look
at what he d had the nerve to send up
Miss Ellsworth surveyed with extreme dlsapproval
the crunpled yellow rothe offender had outraged all
Office ethics by writing the back of stock sheets 1t
certainly not Peters slow, aborious hand but
teversh irregular fist, to sagacouS eyes bearing every
fatal symptom of don't care rap Stranger stl-he
Advertising Assistant bent closer to examine it. Between
the tipsy, zgzag lines curious pencied comments:
$3.50 Bolts cartridge paper, sereny.tue shades. No
prices In pencil. "Too glum and gray
rooms"
$3.50 Rolls tapestry "a few good red and green
patterns
SEQ neac patterns, Kate Greenaaruy-above in pencil