The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-18

men. She knew her work was as good as the average and that there must be other reasons why she couldn't make permanent connections with job. This began to dawn on her after she had been handed her weekly stipened by her eighteenth employer with the remark that she needn't come back Monday It was clinched when a beautiful blond doll. wearing dizzily striped sweater and bobo a half yard across asked her the location of her ex-eighteenth em- ployer's office.
 So that evening. in the solitude of her room, Hilda took a careful in- ventory of her personal disadvan- tages. She summed up the net re- suit which was discouraging, not not to say distressing, in her frank, bucolic way.
 Say. sister" she confided to her mirror you could sue your parents Tor the face they've given you. But you can't get away from tits l glued on. So you might as we'll in vent a disguise.
 The telegram she sent her father next day startled him so he couldn't enjoy his after dinner nap. But he went to the bank on Monday and borrowed the money which he re- mitted with paternally expostu-
 
 and egg money. So Hilda was fi- nanced fer her experiment. ~ When the Beauty Doctors saw her coming they thought her an easy vic tim, but Hilda was on to their game. She told them in the beginning she was a Desperate Case and wanted something done quickly to give her a general family resemblance to other girls. So the beauty doctors pitched in. They massaged and cold creamed. They steamed and Iced. They shampooed and singed. They plucked her eyebrows and darkened her eyelashes They manicured and polished. And occasionally they re- tired behind the door and fell on each others neeks in despair only to come grimly back with another kind of treatment" and another way to fix her hair so her chin would stick out more and her nose less. When they turned her loose at last, with an armload of jars and bottles, she looked like 8 French doll that had gotten mashed in packing. With the few dollars left, Hilda bought a dress of color combination she couldn't wear and hat that Her last s4 went for French kid boots, made in New Jersey, with three-inch heels
 With her heart and pocke tbt ok light she felt she was made.
 But at the first place she applied for work next day, the manager seemed to suffer a violent rush of blood to the head followed by a se- were coughing spell. He finally said they had decided they didn't need any more help, though his as was in the morning paper. And after the fourth separate and distinct rebuff two of them not so petite, Hilda be- n a fr1 have an uncomfortable feeling in the pit of her stomach when she though of the money "paw" had borrowed and she had spent. fl
 The last place on her list was the general office of a large corpora tion., She was obliged to wait a few minutes before seeing the man. ager and realized with dismay that she had never seen such an array of feminine beauty as was concern trated in that one office. Such peachy cheeks and creamy throats, mating dimples-houris hammering typewriters, peris sharpening pencils nymphs taking notes. They seemed to smile from desk to desk in naive admiration of their own beauty-or something.
 Well" thought Hilda, as her heart hit the sole of left shoe. this is no place for little me. I don't banker to be the fly in the ointment"
 But before she could escape, the manager, an old-young man with bored eyes, spoke to her. His gaze seemed to hold faint interest.
 Gan you spell?" he asked wearily.
 "Oh, yes, sir.' Almost unconscious ly Hilda answered in her professions ally willing manner and her teeth leaped at him-she had those large, straightforward teeth.
 You're hired" he said.
 And astounding as it may seem she remained hired. Though the beau- ties came and went and the pulchri-