Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-30
THE FEMININE
STACKER IS HERE
Beatrice Fairfax Tells of New
Phase of War in the
United States

not cook supper. You don't mind if
we have, cold ham and potato salad
and a pie from the delicatessen, do
you?. You wouldn't want your little
wife to stand over hot stove when
she was all in. would your" COOS An
nabelle.
George is tired, too. He had been
hard at work since S in the morning
doing little overtime so that his
$50 week pay envelope will contain
SS5. George is tired and little taut
and strained and nervous. A hot sup
per-roast lamb and mashed potatoes
would "go pretty good" just about
cad were he to meet Annabelle's
sweet pleadings with a grouchy and
brutal demand for a supper different
from the one she has-he half sus-
poets it, too!-purchased at the cor
ner delicatessen on her way home
from an afternoon of shopping.
! Annabelle is a Stacker. She uses
her sex as sweetening and wheedles
and cajoles herself out of RESPONSE
hility. She lets George do it as re-
CARDS work and effort and she glides
along avoiding responsibility and her
share of holding up the family part
nership. Annabene is pretty and
sweet, low-voiced and charming
George adores her. He wants to
make her happy, to see her sunshiny,
tc fee that she is satisfied in the
little home to which he has brought
her. Annabelle trades on that.
BESSIE is the telephone operator in
a large office. She has way of
forgetting messages which come in
when the men are out at lunch. She
torgets to deliver special delivery
letters and kilograms if they happen
to come to her desk at moment
when she is absorbed in her knitting
or a conversation with the file clerk.
Bessie balls things up" around the
office frequently. No one has the
heart to scold her. she is n little
wisttul, blue-eyed thing who is help
ing to support widowed mother and
younger brothers and sisters.
The Bessies and Annabelles of life
are legion. Which one of US has not
been annoyed by some feminine
Stacker who neglected her duties and
caused us annoyance or difficulty?
When l first came to New York [
lived with a charming family in cir
cumstances so reduced that a chance
to rent their second floor to some
one they would not have to acknowl-
edge as a "boarder" but might call
"a friend" was as blessed in regard
to pocketbook as it was soothing
where pride was concerned. One day
l was called out of town quite early
in the morning and 1 asked Eleanor
the seventeen-year-o daughter of
messages which came for me with
the utmost care.
When 1 got home at seven that eve
ming I asked for messages and was
told that Eleanor had taken them all
and left little slips on my desk. There
was nothing of Importance and the
reXt day I left town again. That
night l found a nonchalant message
en- MY desk, Call Mr.. Barclay"
Lot I.a1
"Mr. Barclay" whose name meant
nothing to me. was Mr.. Barker, head
of a vast magazine syndicate, and
that he had tried for two days to
get in touch with me in regard to q
ECst interesting proposition to travel
through South America and write a
series of articles about the country.
1 was three days late in commune
eating with him. and by the time l
reached Mr.. Barker the boat on
which he had wanted me to travel
had sailed and with it another writ
er who was doing the work that
would have meant so much to me.
But 1t was the only message |
forgot that first day. Yon can't be
cross at me. And l got it the next
day. I'm so sorry I got it wrong.
I'm not used to playing telephone
operator. though l just love to do
anything that will oblige you. Other
girls of my age are out having a good
time, and / have to be at home run
ming errands and trying to help
mother keep the family together.
Please don't be cross with me If l
make a few mistakes right at first
Eleanor actually managed to make
me feel like a brute. She evaded and
sidestepped her responsibilities so
sweetly and pleadingly and daintily.
She turned my own weapons against
me completely.
Wasn't she a complete little slack
cr2"
Think over your own record, girls
it is free from just such little
wrigglings out of your honest re-
sponsibility? Do you trade on your
sex and your age and the position in
which you happen to be placed to
make more fortunate people or those
in authority 'let you down easily
when you are inefficient or neglect
full or irresponsible?
Don't hatter yourself on your own
cleverness If you manage to be
little Stacker and still hold your posi-
ton. You won't advance much be-
ycnd it, you won't win friendships
or promotions If you just slide
through" You won't grow. If you
are a Stacker the thing you most
completely neglect and evade is your
own chance to develop into a worth
while human being.
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