Nogales international., 1931-03-04

carrier, is the domestic drudge OF the numole
home where her mother does little except
Eseusan the fact that she has seen better
days and her sister Liz, who works In
S1eauty shop, lies abed late. Maggie has to
ssst the family breakfast before she starts
0ue to her job in the Five-and- 1 en-Cenl
SfoKe-
There's new boy at the Five-and- Ten,
Joe Grant He tells Maggie that he has been
ASSIGNED to work as her helper IN the STOCK
room- He seems rather dumb, but Maggie
helps him through his first day at the store
hole of a place that belongs to mattress
factory next door to the Five-and-Ten
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
%Oh, sure I do! I read it in a
paper" she said, beginning on her own
milk, and talking through, or around,
the straws. "You have to eat iron
and starch and-and fosters" she said,
somewhat uncertain of the last word.
~Iron and starch and-what?" he
asked, fishing for the extraordinary
word. But she would not be baited.
"All sorts of things" she said eva
siYeIy. "These sandwiches are tuna
fish and egg-they're always the ones
ktszt are left. We never get the chicken
or ham ones, but we don't care, 90
WEI" she ended little anxiously.
"I don'tl" Joe said, ravenous.
How'd you happen to find this
placer" he asked, approving OF it.
II was after some ideels in Our base
rnent,' she said. can I seen this win
der Amt it nice in here?"
SYou were after some GVhGtY" ne
interrupted. ..
~Sonie ideels. Some of them little
well, sorter prayers they have all
-oolos,red up, on cards." Maggie ex-
planned. 'tike No man is useless
while he has a friend, an To earn
little, to spend little less, an
There's so much good in the worst
of u.s." she went on. But at such
lightning speed that Joe could not
make a beginning or an end to what
she said. He burst out laughing.
'@You laugh like you were much
older than you are" said Maggie,
struck with some sudden suspicion.
oegVhy-how old did you think 1 was :"
Il thought you was a kid" Mag
gle said frankly. That's" she ended
inrocently, that's why l sorter took
an interest in you"
'fHow old are your" Joe countered
care you thirteen?"
~Ttlrteenp phe echoed, aHrohted
,sTve been worEln' four years. I'll be
eeiiaftecn my next birthday. I was
seventeen last Valentines Day"
And suddenly both were enbar
raised, and they stopped talking, In
some confusion of spirit.
~But when l first went to work."
Maggie resumed, II was awful little.
I opened a door an checked umbrellas.
You'd wonder they let me in at all.
Three dollars week, they paid me"
Pretty tough!" Joe commented
ssynpathetically.
~Oh, I've had my share" she re-
sponded. 1--WE ought to have some
thing green with this" said Maggie
again, extending toward him a fresh
supply of the broken biscuits.
"Where'd you get all this diet
stuff ?" Joe asked, diverted.
"Oh," she flashed carelessly, "the
evenin' papers has 1t, always, health
column"
~But you don't believe all you see
in the papersl" Joe teased.
Il do some things" Maggie coun-
tered uncertainty, after a moments
thought.
And do you do all the things the
papers say to do?" Joe asked.
I'm doin' one now," she answered,
moving only her lips. "I'm relaxin' ::
Relax ten minutes after meals, ii
you're thin. Stand if you're fat. Ex-
,ercises every mornin'-"
I'VE have twelve minutes" Joe said,
Slatcing at his wrist. "And do you
believe all the ideal cards, too?" he
pursued.
How do you mean?" she asked.
well, don't they all have rules for
lie on them?" Joe suggested. Lest
we forget and I am the captain Of
my soul,' and all that?"
"Was you readin' them to-day?"
she asked, surprised.
mo. But I know that kind of
stuff
LET us then be up an doin',' "
AAESiS was AACAA It'll Al1Sp 60 A. SA>~
heard the words for the first time.
Laugh, an the world laughs with
you"
"Oh, gosh, it makes me sick at my
stomach" Joe said family, between a
laugh and a groan.
Maggie laughed, puzzled but SYM
pathetic.
ct sorter doesn't mean anything" "
she conceded. "But the Isl sezzes'
. are funny" she submitted doubtfully.
'The zVh0tS?"
""The 'Si sezzes'-we call them tina" "
she elucidated. "They all begin, 'Si
sez.'"
Bunk" Joe commented disgust
ed1y.
She was staring at him, family sus-
picious.
"Joe," she began after a moment
<3is this your first job?"
What makes you think it isn't?''
he parried.
"Becauz-becauz fe1lers of nineteen
don't usually begin on what you're
dom. stockroom work" said Maggie