The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-07
Tiaras Again in Evidence
"A Charming Eve
ming Frock--." EQUITIES
d'Eau" a New Shade
of Green

at home, SO IL didn't seem fair to ask
any more of him. I went home ut
once, but I could not rest for wonder
ing what I should do.
| VI had been q saleswoman in suits
and cloaks before / was married. but
i knew 1 could never take care Of my
children on such pay. And this time
/ was not going to work for a few
years. I would have to plan like a
man-for always.
my brothers had made a success of
business. One of them has a chain OF
mems furnishing stores. So my rela-
lives got together and gave me few
hundred dollars to put into any bust
ness 1 liked.
The women's furnishing business
that ] knew was not a good one for
me, decided; It took too much stock
and the trade was seasonal. SO de-
cided on shoes. though knew nothing
about them except what ] had learned
In buying them for myself I found
this little store--it was only half as
large then-and put in my stock.
'Oh, but worked hard. I used to
get here at 7 In the morning, sweep
the store and the sidewalk, dust, look
over my stock to have my orders ready
business by 8. OF course I never re-
fused a customer II she came before
6, and / have sold many q pair Of shoes
20 girl on her way to her own work.
never got homo before IL at night.
IT got my first clerk just before my
baby was born. three months after I
had opened the store. / worked UP to
the last moment myself, and while I
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over in the evening to see how things
were going. and give a hand with the
trade, which is always heaviest in the
evening in this neighborhood.
Tho hardest thing In my whole ex-
perience was leaving my baby, but !
couldn't have him with me and l
couldn't stay at home with him. I did
the best I could for him: gave him to
a woman who had been a nurse to
take care OF for me. She gave him
constant care, and he did well. I
never saw him except on Sundays, cx-
cept once in a while when she would
bring him to the store.
1.-THE clerk stayed on with me, selling
to the men while / sold to the women
] featured women's shoes from the first
trying to get the pretty new styles that
girls like. A shoe must have style and
snap as well as comfort to suit q girl
and the girls are my best customers for
they wear out many shoes as they &c
60 work and stand all day. So I tried
TO please them and gradually j built UP
a good trade. As 1t widened got an
errand boy to deliver packages after
school.
But the store was too small for much
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being lifted one could hardly get past
for II was only ten feet wide. So ]
began to save my money for a bigger
store.
! zone night about three years after ]
opened burglars got in over the transom
and took about three dozen pairs OF
shoes. 1t was not until five years after
l opened that l felt I could afford the
bigger store. ! had gone very care
fully paying all bill. az went. Once In
while l would date a check a little
ahead. but not often. had lost little
through giving credit to old cubtomers
but not much.
II had the money IN the bank when
the people next door had q fire. II
didn't come through, but my stock was
ruined by water and II was only par
TALLY insured. / had taken out bur-
glary insurance aftes was robbed, and
since I was burned out have carried
full fire insurance, but that didn't helr
mo then. had to sell my stock for q
third of what It had cost me.
II felt pretty bad, but my brothers
helped me out You're all right as Ions
az your credits good they told me. Sc
I got the store next door, had the two
thrown together and put in my new
stock.
I'VE had another clerk, but the first
thing knew I was feeling very bad. !
suppose I had worked too hard over the
moving, and for five years had scarcely
sat down, i was SO anxious to have
things going well. had never thought
about myself.
you're business woman the doc
tor sold to me. You've got a long time
to work Why don't you taka care OF
your health the same as you do OF your
stock? It's the best part of It.
80 I began to look after myself.
had never done any homework. / hat
had the sense to realize that couldnt
do a mans work and O woman's too, but
now I began to do a mans work as
man would do It.
II stayed in bed until 8 in the morn
, Ing leaving the clerks to open tho store
while trade was dull. There Is another
quiet time early In the afternoon. aIAl
went home to lunch and rested an houi
. afterward. / didn't do little sewing oil
q reading or wash my harr. / lay dowr
: on the bed and thought about nothine
: at all. And very soon l was all right
: again, but i have done the same eyel
Y since. / still work in the evenings, bu,
one night a week | 70 to the theatre Il
. get my mind OFF business
a 81 have learned to let my clerks TAX,
4 some of tho responsibility as well as dc
a the work. 1 have three men clerk,
= now and an extra man on Saturday
O with porter TO take care of the stor,
:. and deliver packages.
Perhaps ! do look young considerin.
. how hard / have worked, but part O.
, that is taking care OF myself. / hav,
. my hair shampooed and my face mas
q saged regularly and / always wear {
a clean white waist. When people com,
\ into store they do not want to see ,
: tired, untidy looking clerk there. ] tr,
: to keep interested and be ready to talk
= There would bl more happy home
and fewer divorces II the wife kept .
fashion magazine on the table and ,