Evening star., 1926-03-04
SUB ROSA
BY MIMI.
BY MIMI.
Too Ladylike.


Bessie was a superior young per-
son-she'd gone to a nice school and
upon graduating had taken up a
course of interior decorating. After
she'd finished that, she went out into
the great world to do big things.
One of the big department stores in
New York gave her a job-she was
installed in a nice office and given
pleasant work to do. She was happy.
| Then, one day, the head of her de-
partment shocked and surprised her
with the information that Bessie must
be moved out of her office. She was
thrown in with a crowd of girls such
as she'd never seen before. And she
was told that she must learn to work
with her hands-her head explained
kindly that If Bessie were going to be
a real success she'd have to get down
to brass tacks, and learn what it was
all about.
But little Bessie pined away--nearly
died in the uncongenial surroundings.
One day there came call for a parcel
to be delivered at an uptown house.
! No one of the messenger girls was in
sight. and Bessie, if you please, was
asked to deliver the bundle-a large,
unwieldy looking affair
Sulkily she obeyed. She was dis
gusted and discouraged, but she
solemnly put on her hat and coat and
marched out with the package under
her arm.
| On her way uptown she met Tom.
| Where are you going?" he asked
| casually And what are you carry
ing-a piano? Let me take it for
you?"
Bessie was scarlet with humiliation.
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career had turned into that of an err
and girl
So she lied. Said she was going call
ing on one of her girl friends and was
taking some things up there.
He insisted on accompanying her to
the very door of her friends home
and Bessie simply had to stop a while
and chat with the girl whom she had
told Tom she was going to visit.
BY the time she arrived at her orig
fnal destination, the woman waiting
for the parcel had flown into seven
different ,tempers-had called the store
at least dozen times, and was in the
mood to tell Bessie just what she
thought of her.
She did.
And when Bessie got back to her
place of business, the head had some
thing to say.
Bessie flew into rage. Il didn't
come here to carry parcels. or to work
with bunch of roughneCks," she
shrilled, forgetting her ladylike accent
in her anger. And l don't want to
work for this ghastly establishment
any more"
And that was that The head never
told Bessie that the girl was in line
for peach of a job-that the older
woman had felt her young employe
bishness before she could make a
really good executive.
The head just sighed and shook her
head, and looked around for another
promising young woman who wouldn't
consider herself too ladylike for any
work which might be assigned to her.
Bessie got a pleasant, unimportant
post with nice, refined decorator,
who let her be just as ladylike as she
pleased, and paid her S12 a week until
she got married
tCopyright. 1926o
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velope.
The upturned caves, which are a
characteristic architectural feature of
all Chinese houses are intended to
catch the devil should he venture too
close to the domicile and throw him
far up into the heavens.