Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-11

Xxi W IlO "OulSl ia ' = DCClI -
peNooI 2ou Gus peV Hl49Id AGqeEIa;t
SO ill-nourshed.
Miss Morrison, this is Annie Fa
gin, girl 7 know. l heard you say
you could use another stenographer
SO l brought Annie"
every well. Nina, go TO your desk
III talk to Annie"
L thought l should like to feed Ell
first, but asked: Are you a goo(
stenographer and typist, Annie?"
"TEer amt many worse ones
ma'am," she returned. to my surprise
with more than q tingle of brogue.
But. Annie, how can you expect tC
get a good place if you are not com
potent TO do the work.
II amt expecting anything NJ
more, ma'anl. Then, you see, l dom
get disappointed"
l smiled l couldn't help it, tn,
answer was so naively given.
Where have you worked and why
have you left?"
"Tve worked in lots Of places.
have left most of them because some
one tried to make love to me. One
man told me that was all | was 5000
for. I guess he was right, but
slapped his face just the same.
amt had no bringing up hardly. Ani
I am no good to work. No one ever
give me a chance. But | ain't a bad
girl. When l have to be that to carr
my living I'll jump off the dock
You see, Miss Morrison, men AIM
fresh when girls are real smart anC
they needs them. But when they is
numskulls like me, why then they
gets fresh"
How long have you remained III
one place."
about six weeks-this last one
1 tried awful hard. But I guess Tn
no good" A hard look came into her
face.
where do YOU live?"
"NOwheres."
"Why, Annie, you-"
1.-THE woman where I lived in a
Cubb, hole at the top of The house
told me to go yesterday. Nina made
me go with her or I guess it would
have been the dock last night" She
some way I felt sure that she would
have gone as she said rather than
be anything but good girl"
"Nina!", I called. Then when she
crossed the room to me: Take An
ME out and give her a good hot meal.
will be very little" said 20 the girl,
whose face had lighted up so that il
was almost beautiful. But I am go
ing to give you chance to learn"
IudI al walt, Htc dIls a
chance. I will try awful hard. l
don't care if I get euogh to pay for
my room and something to eat"
In spite of her poor clothes the girl
was neat. Her dress and gloves were
neatly menGed and her hair was
work realized the impression such
things make, the help they are in Sc
curing work, they never would neg
lect them.
In about half an hour the girls re-
turned. I never should have known
Annie; Her eyes shone and her face
was '}impied with smiles. She was
so pretty and SO young. l asked her
age.
Going on eighteen, ma'am," she
told me. but she looked less than six.
teen. She was very tiny and her
dark hair, which seemed too heavy
for her small head to carry. framed
a face that when filled out a little
would attract attention anywhere.
Big Irish eyes at times almost cen
cealed with long curling laShes, dim
pies, and tiny white teeth made her
noticeable among even very pretty
girls. AS I talked TO her ] scarcely
wondered at ker story.
I gave her envelopes to address
circulars to fold. and all the time
Watched her. ] never had seen such
determination to please, such graft
Nina. SO she found a room in the
same house, lust as near the roof as
[ can get and not go through" she
told me.
She had told the truth when she
said she was incompetent. But she
was very quick and so anxious to
please that one could not feel unduly
annoyed With her. I had an ole type
writer which 7 loaned her and She
practised at home. She improved very
Il y e.1Nr,
time J came to feel that whatever
gave to Annie to do would be care
fully done, even though il took her
a long time. 1 grew very fond of her
Her ready laugh and bright remarks
place than before she came. That
she was to be mixed up in my life
never dreamed. That the time would
come when I would doubt her fealty,
would resent her intcrferences in my