The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-02-13
The Sports
Suit
BY WILLIS BRINDLEY

/ IHOR ten dollars cash and nve dol
= lars week, payable on pay days,
Moe Golden will sell an honest work.
| ing girl a sports suit that will make
her look and feel like Evelyn Wander
gould. Minnie Bowers knew this. Min
ME had ten dollars and enough over
for ineidentals on her vacation at Lin
ger Longer, where she had been invit-
ed to be guest of rich Aunt Harriet.
But Minnie knew also that she could
not possibly squeeze an extra five dol
lars week from her pay envelope to
complete payment for the suit.
1t was Saturday morning; she would
be off at one, with time to shop and
pack In the afternoon and catch the
night boat for Linger Longer. If she
only had that sports suit.
The telephone at her ear tangled.
Long distance from Berrydale for Miss
Bowers.
| Eyes, Mr. Simonson, two dozen cell
lar window bolts No. 1853, four dozen
| light galvanized strap hinges No. CAT,
! by auto freight today, sure. Business
must be good with you, Mr.. Simonson.
| Thank you very much. Today, sure
She wrote the order, and ran out to
the shipping clerk with 1t.
To-day, sure, Mike. for Simonson at
Berrydale, and If you don't make that
J auto freight I'll never speak to you
/ again"
"All right, Minnie. just for you Wen
make it."
She returned to find Adam Goss, her
employer, at her desk, with tremen-
dous list of hardware items, In his own
! handwriting.
To-day, sure" said Goss. Copy 1t
and get 1t in the mail, and don't lose
it, and there's a letter goes with it
! it's that big job for the Central high
school we're figuring. / am going for
the day."
Mr.. Goss," she said, 'I'm leaving
| this afternoon for my vacation"
"Yes. Well, get that estimate out
before you go. You got plenty of
| time"
But that was not what she had come
to talk about.
'Mr Goss, / think I'm entitled to
more money. I want five dollars a
week more"
He stared. Such talk
at is up to me to decide when a
person around here is entitled to more
money. Nobody should talk like that
unless he is Indispensable"
Minnie Bowers returned to her desk,
| her face afiame. The telephone
tangled in her ear. 1t was the Bon
Ton store at Cedar Rapids. all out OF
extension window screens No. S43. She
wrote the order and made savage
threats to Mike of what she would do
| If he did not ship today, sure.
Then she tackled the estimate Adam
Goss had priced the list himself, with
| special prices on most items, and she
must extend and total it, type the ac-
| companying letter and put it, in the
mail
The telephone rang again. 1t was
| the five and ten at Gardenvilla, suf-
fering for fly-swatterS and pairing
| knives. Came one o'clock and the Of
| Ace c,eared-of all but Minnie Bow
ers. At three o'clock she finished the
estimate-lunchless tired, angry. She
mailed the thing herself, walked into
Goss' office with the cartoons and his
original, and then
Then she walked back with the pa
pers to her own desk and buried them
| In the second drawer.
II to-
Longer over, returned to the whole
sale hardware business becomingly
tanned and becomingly arrayed in a
sports suit that lacked seven payments
of being legally her own. And the
4 first thing she did was to look in the
second drawer for that estimate.
1t was gone.
BOSS wants yuh." said voice in
her ear. She went to him.
Mice vacation, / hope. That's
good."-(My, but wasn't he niceO
well, you'll be glad to know we sold
that schoolhouse hardware We found
the estimate in your desk all right
She managed to look up at him, but
found no words.
"Well, you done good job on that
estimate, but it amt that called you
in for. / guess from now on you'll
have to lay off estimates and just an
swer long distance and take care of
country trade. Simonson of Berrydale,
he raised hill when you weren't here
| last week and the Bon-Ton store and
the Gardenvilla five and ten, they say
only you can handle their orders and
get 'em right. Now, / amt prepared
to say that anybody's Indispensable
around here, but this country trade job
is goin' to be worth five dollars a week
more to you. beginning this week."