The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-01-21
IN WHICH l PUT ON THE GLAD
RAGS
DEAR MON:


my letters interesting these things
is sure different from anything that
ever happened to me before and l
guess to any girl from Camden New
Jersey.
Well, l am having a funny time
right now in the Elite Beauty Parl-
ors. The girls is just ate up with
curiosity they know l have got some
big fellow on my string somebody
seen me with him somewhere and
they cant make out why l wont tell.
They say I'm a boob to think l can
hide him they will sure track him
down but l just laugh at them. There
is an extension phone in Madame
Lafferty's private office and when
ever l am asked to the phone she is
always listening in but all she hears
| is that a gentleman named Mr.. Brown
says for me to meet him at the usual
place and that don't tell her much.
Sometimes l write these little notes
to you In between customers, and of
course that intreegs the girls a lot
too and Ada Huggins-her that has
changed her name to Adaire the silly
fool-she says, what is it Name
are you writing your mamewars 2"
That is supposed to be smart but it
amt so very.
Well just now the phone rung and
it was Mr.. Edgerton, and he asked
me if | could get off at five this
| afternoon and meet him and of course
that wasn't easy because it is our
| busiest hour but he said it was a very
urgent matter so l said l would try
my best to be there And then /
went to ask the Madame and gee she
was sour she says, "What is this
am running beauty parlor or a date
ranch 2" You see she pretends the
girls amt supposed to meet the Gus
toners outside but gee what a howl
there would be if | was to ask for
enough wages to buy my own din
ners! And we all know she goes out
herself and meets a gent with a glass
in one eye and his hair plastered over
his bald head, he calls himself Count
Skrimsky but Pm telling you he's nc
count in any way you mean it. We'll
l says she can dock my pay or I'll
stay two hours of my afternoon of
and then she tries to find out who
is the gentleman and l tell her it is
a government matter and / have beer
forbid to say and you can imagine
how much pleased that makes her!
P. S. Oh Nom l have Just had the
most wonderful adventure that ever
happened to a girl. Mr.. Edgertor
knew just what he had in mind when
he got me to meet him at five O'Clock
it was to get to some store before il
shut up! Oh Nom he must of saw
that my purse was empty the last
time we went out and he must of go
sorry about it. Anyhow we strolleC
down the street and there was thu
Bon Ton Store with all the Lowell!
things in the windows and he kind O.
led me over to look and he says
"They make lots of pretty things
nowadays don't they?". And 1 says
eyes, they do" but kind of feeble
because I wouldn't have him think
was thinking would ever like to owl
such things. But he says, Lets u
go in and have look at them. +"
So we went in and he went to the
suit department and he says to the
clerk, "My daughter finds the winters
in Washington more severe than she
expected and she wants to get some
thing nice and warm" he says, JUS
like that and gee l nearly faints a.
the nerve of him. But of course
have got to go through with it SO
says, ooh, no, Papa, not now!" bu
he says, Eyes, right now, 1 insist.
So the girl takes one look at hin
and starts to bringing out the expen
slve things and l gasps. ooh, tha
will cost too much" But he says
"You let me tend to this daughter,
and so of course all / do is to stanC
there. And so he gets me TAILORED
suit brown like l had on but oh VIVA
a difference there can be in cloths
it is soft and fuzzy and warm lik,
1t was an overcoat and yet it is light
er than my old suit!
And then he says, eve shall have
to have hat and things to mattel
this suit" and then l starts to argue
that my old hat will do but he say,
it wont and before 1 get through hi
takes me round to the shoe depart
ment and the glove counter-it il
after the hours and the place is
closed and the clerks is tired anC
looking cross but he cheers them ur
with tip and so we finish the rounds
And | keep them all on and when ]
am going out you would not know il
is the same girl that come in. The
clerk wants to know where they shall
send the old things and l don't dare
to give the address because you see
1T had ought to be the name of some
swell hotel so says l am moving and
| will send for them; and of course
| will send myself tomorrow.
Well, Nom, l am so ratified / can
hardly talk and L says, "Mr. Edger-
ton, this amt right l hadn't ought to
of let you do it." But he says real
serious that the ideas l have give him
is worth what he has paid and there
wasn't no other way he could of got
them. "But | didn't expect to be paid
for them" | says and he says, "Well
am paid for them myself and why
should you work for nothing? 2" he
says. Il have got to keep close to
the great heart of the plain people, .
he says, land to know how they feel
and talk and how else am going to
do it? The only thing you got to be
sure is that getting fixed up swell
don't spoil you so that you forget how
the plain people feel"
But l says, 'No you don't need to
worry about that" / says, because
/ got my mother and father and nv