The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-02-13
WAITER GIRLS
DENY DANGERS
No Trouble With Annoy
ers Unless They Invite
Attentions
FEW MEN PRESUME
Girl May Be Agreeable With
out Sacrificing Her Charac-
ter If She Is Disposed
iy NARGERY REX.

NEW YORK, Feb. 12.-Does the
gaItress walk In the way OF tempta-
ton
van. prominent Chicago social
worksr. IL is the most dangerous
occupation a woman can enter.
..cor~ng to five representative
ws'Irps-ps interviewed By the writer
.,cb sweeping statements cannot he
mad truthfully, and the "tcmpta-
A)don" all depends on the girl who
watts" herself.
"Do not raise your daughter to be
waitress" warns Mrs. Donovan.
Vho has come TO her startling con-
~lusions after an Investigation OF
.onditons that covers nine months
In order 10 inform herself accurate
'y concerning this subject Mrs. Dom
6yan says she has worked in res
,aurar's. both cheap and expensive.
In hotels and grill rooms. in tea
/ .hops and In exclusive clubs. All OF
these eating places, she says, offer
menace to the girl who works in
them.
In the cheaper restaurants, she
says the patrons expect little visits
Win tho girl who serves them food
the men who come In at other times
han the IuSu HOuT.
Mrs. Donovan's Experience.
Mrs. Donovan tells OF her first tip
received In an exclusive tea room.
\ There's twenty cents on your
able. doarie, one OF the Mattresses
,od me. I fastened back TO PICK 1t
lp because ! thought | had e3rncd
A. Under the dimes was the Busi-
ness card OF my late customer with
and tpia nh N A.
number wondered why. but
soon learned the meaning OF this
ard left for the waitress.
"Ths result Is" concludes Mrs.
Donovan. that almost every wal
tress has two or three husbands
during her life: that As per cent OF
hem arc Divorces; that so per
cent Of them are married tempo
arlly and that the remaining 10
per cent are single
Judging from Mrs. Donovan's con-
suslons the waiting" business
would seem to offer unparalleled op-
portuniiies to enter matrimony, but
not to be secure in wedloCk.
As against such reflections upon
an honest calling from girls who ac-
'ually wait on table for their liyeli-
hoods, the following opinions were
gsrnered.
What Mattresses Say.
Everything depends on the girl
herself" said one trim waitress in a
medumpriced restaurant. 81 think
!, is very wrong to say such things
about any one class OF working
people
"As far as temptation goes, there
certainly as much in n factory;
hat Is, as many opportunities for
men TO approach girls and annoy
them. Or. in a department store, "A
man can pretend to be buying some
hing and stop to talk to girl II she
sa,ches his eye. ! don't believe
what that social worker says about
waltreSscs.'
In an uptown tea room a sweet
iaced serious looking girl said:
That is foolish. No man, even OF
he worst kind. will bother girl II
she shows him by her actions that
she L. not the sort he Is looking for.
Men respect girl who behaves her
'elt and will not annoy her more
han once"
Charges-and denlals.
An investigator of social condi-
lions. Miss stella Minor, prominent
N the New York Probation and Pro-
'ectve association, was then asked
| 10 give hcr opinion on the SUBJECT.
Nl% Minors Opinions.
1T Is difficult 10 get data on such
| matter" bepan Miss Minor. 1T
seems hard thing to say. but res
aurants. as rule, are not good
places for young girls.
I Few OF the girls who have come
under our notice have been wait
Tesses, though. Yet we have occa-
'honal complaints.
u have placed some girls in
nurses homes, in hospitals and In
he better class of tea rooms where
hey will be in high-class surround
!ngs. know that girls say that
men in the cheaper places expect
hem to be friendly.
In one case a girl told me that
Vhen she asked for the job the
manager said In reply To her COM
paint that the pay was too little
mat she would have a fine oppor-
unity 10 make appolntments' she
brought the matter to US. II Is on
such testimony as that that We do
uot send girls to restaurants,
of course they are not like the
lance halls from which We receive
nx f-m plants a month. but, never
ue!ess, there is this unpleasant Sit
fess In the face. To come in contact
.th such phase Of life is not good
.o girl nor is II good for her IL
n "ear such advances.
On Fifth avenue, where women
'hop and have lunch. and on the
a1e streets whore there are many
',All restaurants. II IL safe and
.As NJ for young girls. but not
sseWrlere
The ,arge chain restaurant sys-
.ms Try 20 keep up a standing OF
men, and watchfulness for
m ployes. But they cannot
H"hat the patrons may say to q
who is rIght7 Are young wait
ses more subject 10 the advance.
uEin'onuoned men than any 9TH
class o. working women?
Ut VII. the ability ot young won
~ 20 make others respect their dig,
-Y oNerhtlance such dangers as
ny eA's' In any work that brings
"sm near the public