The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-10-23

boys. Applying for the vacancy, the
gentleman asked for an interview.
you are too young" he wrote af-
terward, but would overlook this
were you not quite so pretty. Mast
ers and boys alike would fall in
love with you.
Taking pity on me, however. he
sent me the address of a fellow head
master. but Of much smaller school
who had a vacancy for a matron.
Oh, Joy! In due course I was ac-
cepted and at a salary of $3.50 a year,
with, of course, board and rooms.
But a thousand times alas, for in
less than a week I was out of work
once more. The schoolmaster's wife,
herself a pretty woman, had grown
jealous of my looks and practically
compelled her husband to give me a
terms salary and send me away.
After this tried in vain to become
hospital nurse, a chemists assist
ant. doctors dispenser, a clerk and
the manageress Of a restaurant. For
the latter berth / was told l had not
had sufficient experience of life and
the world, while friendless and with
out influence l was, no hospital
would consider my application for a
moment.
Again. no doctor, no chemist, no
bushes man of any standing and in
tegrity would employ me-
"You are too good-looking for my
establishment" was the answer that
most of the latter gave me. "You
should do well on the stage"
Now, said | to myself, will be-
come a waitress.
I went to Mr. Lyons and asked
him for work. He referred me to his
managers. His managers refused to
| employ me on the ground that a per-
son OF my education would be likely
to cause jealousy among the rest of
their female employees and sent me
on to the manager of the Cabin Tea
Rooms. The cabin people said they
had no vacancy, but took my name
and address.
1t was most important that I find
work at once, for 1 had now little
money left.
So one day while passing a public
house l tripped in and asked to see
the manager. Half an hour later /
was behind the bar, and. in the words
of the schoolboy, serving drinks"
like mad.
Here in less than a week l had
been invited to practically every
place of amusement and notable res
taurant in Londo nand had been Of
fered presents from flowers to dia-
monds and innocently had been the
cause of two fights.
Do you wonder. therefore, at my
now asking the manager for my re-
lease from so undesirable a place?
When l did so the man flew into a
rage and bundled me out into the
street in less than an hour, threat
ening to give me in charge as an i'm
poster.
l passed the next 10 months So
Letting for a firm of advertising |
agents. from which employment |
was dismissed for refusing to marry |
the senior partner and accepting the |
hand of the senior clerk, who, alas!
was also dismissed on the same day
and at the same hour.
A few weeks after my marriage |
to the latter he was knocked down |
and killed by motor omnibus.
/ have many photographs of him,
but the one that resembles him |
most is seen when I look into the |
face of certain little baby girl, who |
accompanies her mother every night |
to a certain large theater and sleeps |
so soundly while the mother, clad in |
cold tights, is earning a bare live
lihood by exhibiting herself to a
crowded audience and singing Choir
uses.
RritiSh SolIior NIust navo Iau,