The evening world. Newspaper, March 15, 1904, Page 11

| yes ‘ POR ebersosorageeseoeeseooesesees: The Business A Business Man Wants By Anna S. Richardson. « NO. 1. {ALF @ million women are earning: it the various lines of commerce on Manhattan Island. in such enormous numbers tt is because the business man needs them. He is Bo gent Gentlewom- “i en, He has ac- woman as a factor in his race for cause she works|» aide. These aro tho exceptional cases.| q Generally, “she !s paid less and works a, po, Time family was the object of envy. Now {t "1s the girl who secures the first posl- tion “downtown.” Her younger ettll chafing under parental and school- _Yespect. She is her own mistress, she hi ys not asked to wipe the dishes at “@owntown,” she buys what she likes faduation day from the elementary] ¢ “powered, and built for two. Rather] ¢ “they show ‘an clectric-lighted office in a application oard wekyscraper or the sult department of A] you see thi she sfgablonable shop, where one may 086) must answer all day tn a@ trailing black frock and dozen simple ques: “YOok more stylish than the women who wome'in to buy new. gowns. not do this, she is which they carried As to the duties incidental to either 4 of these positions her ideas are a bit 4 her first week's salary. And so Cio ee a ee eis ni their Ivelihood—and incidentally| But she did not receive a . | bearing the matrimonial Ymarket—| stead, she flounced from ti spony ik Peach-blow color turned to angry scar- let. Somehow I lost interest in further 1f women have been given employment| proceedings. I wanted to know why sho vas not chosen. It was the first ques- tion I put to the superintendent. He mot engaged in that worthy charity one/looked at me with a puzzled alr, pfaes posted in London, “The Assocta-| which girl—oh, that one with the red- tion for Giving Em-/ gold hair? Um—yes, ployment to Indi| but mere prettiness won't sell goods. fust then, but @ little money-making cepted the businoss/machine for his employer. But did you notice her gloves?—three i] Wealth, either be-|fingera out on oneshand! And whil better or cheaper!torn ribbons or binding or sométhing of than men. If she)the sort hanging down from her pettl- works better, she/cont. We don't want that sort of girl. ‘In some delightfully 18 pald as much OF/t¢ she {3 slovenly about herself, she'll "mysterious lunch-@ trifle moro thun|pe slovenly about our work. Do you Btrroom ‘downtown. the man at her/xnow, girls come tn here with their hair Shout As well. Either way, the busl-|jut their finger nails absolutely dirty. nipas man gets the best of it. ‘That girl will be an eye servant for when the first bride in Rlene house. We don't want her, efther, experience in a new girl. We want in- sters,| tolligence—the right sort of stuff which our training will bring out, We want! rg0m discipline, and held in leash by] the teachable 'gitl. And we know them the family finances, look up to her with! when we see them. If you cannot read superintendent of ight, she eats what rhe will in some] mpioyeea in a New “delightfully mysterious lunchroom! york store. The ‘ girl who p talwear—a new stock for ench day 1n) straight up to yoy sthg week and none shall say her nay—| jooks you in the ey because shé earns her own money. and tells you sho is The fifteen-year-old girl, facing her! witting to begin at chools of New York, bullds alr castles! tearm fs worth try- which do not include a cottage, rose-| ing out, The second requirements, neatness and earnestness second, And looks? Well, they do no worry no more because her lips lack the| 4, Jeurve of cupid's bow, because her eyes shade to green instead of blue and her hair droops with the falling barometer. ‘Things are coming her way at :ast. The merel, retty girl has been weighed by the Sainesa ses ‘and found wanting. | "omen Also, she marries too early in the game to pay for training. Look well to the lace: nkirt, the fingers of your glove—and e of the «iris went up to the superin- make application for the coveted job. Semper yes oy ee Ngee Ne 5 Woman PPFITITFISITIS® Ah, there she went—the little winner, room, the © was pretty You see, he was not choosing a wifo “Yes, I remember; she jras pretty, at over there on the bench I saw some ressed fit for a wigmaker's window md thelr noses powdered just right, “We do not care about references or uman nature you do not want to be the bottom and est comes with her If she can-"Others received carte} pace not intelligent tos table and filled shelf. ‘Place intelligence first in our Hst of arm!" Let the plain girl take heart. Let her] ja; in your shoes, the binding on your | tendent's desk."* makes application for a position, eMore properly speaking, she tries for ‘gmany positions. Perhaps, during the first dreary week of her rounds, #ho finds out what the employers of labor require in addition to the above-men-|% ttoned accomplishments. If so, she is} ° daa falr way to secure a position. In ‘Merge numbers, however, she does not wolve the problem, but decites that a girl without a “pull” cannot secure eworle in New York. When in doubdt—clerk. “Wtat is the motto of the unequipped girl who yearns for a business career, wAnd the superintendents of big de- epartment stores: will tell you that the! (yy permission of George Munro! @animar rchools of the city and the] (Convrinht, “180%, by George Munro's Parochial schoola turned ovt between of two hundred a day,” sald the super- Mtendent of a store, whose proprictor fe’ noted the world over for his chari- tits—ind his business acumen. “Sit @Swn for “half an hour and watch them.” I Gid—right on the bench with girls from Harlem, the Fronx, the east si “Brooklyn, Jersey City and Newark-—all ooking for’ work, ‘Then I tried to pick Sotit the winners, First choice was a pretty lttle thing, with hair that shond “even in the undertain electrio light of this basement office, & peach-blow com- plexion and a bewitching dimple in her “thin. In time I real- “Weed that every oth- @r woman in the foom was looking at her—with more Tesh envy. Evi o dently “we had agreed that she #ould go under tho wire an easy winner. Ons by one the Is went up to superintendent's ik. It was in tho ifprpen and no one by is could hear the little gh conferences. Some Ei e the girls left the Foom at once. ‘Oth- Pv : Rivers had never heard—but, cate wed chrdd she reached the second window, heavy serge gown caught those fragile abominations—a weakly chair done in gold and ebony, a wov seat of rushes—and the delicate article came to the ground, dragging with 1. A CONSCIENTIOUS SKIPPER. [a fower-stand and a few othrr things f little yglue, but undoubted chirfal ever froin giiéodotes about the late Cardinal| manufacture, to judge by the crash that Vaughan, One of the best ts in llouse-| followed, which they carried A. table @N4 "She flounced trom ea out, = while the room,’ thelr brows showed anxious wrinkles. AN the gossip periodicals are full, of | 0 Sila ‘Words, and it tells how, as Father Waughan, the Tate prelate’ risitod an ‘Atierican war veassel, where she cap- ‘Baptist, though there was some dowot | d on the point. “Then do you attend bis tell jaerreanent’s secsired, tho oulure, most in her mind, and, the cénserva- r see Sets. being nero ad made for} mumbling and in your own dehalf?"’ nor what I done {t for,""—Cleveland Plain Dealer, J A Maiden -All. Forlorn. INTERRUPTED PROPOSAL. five and six thousand uncquipped but] sister, ts iving x HER ee, femnbitious would-be business women | fount #606, Ast ecxe retue tn. tho houkh ‘labt_ month Jectmhanike Craven, where se Is snow) pound, BN That Malor Jervin, ana © MThey ate coming to us at the rate| Hein siend°or ber fen. uncle. im Riso Woes ch who, in her enforced latened to the Major's spoken doter- mination not to quit his seat until dinner was announced, her heart died within he: that {t was very attractive in Itself— ay breath, a snort, a—Was bea snore? It was, A veritable, unde- Opening the door cautiously, she peeped glow of the firelight wrapped in In- hocent slumber. her motto, Stilt cautiously she came forth, and began her journey thraugh ‘the long, unlighted room, hoping to make her escape without discovery, ing into the hall, one into the cons enchantingly—sweeter music Miss FIXING THE BLAME, agreed, “Prisoner, have you anything to say “Well, Jedge, it's like dis. Dat lawyer thine he got me so,mis'bly confust!- ated dat I really dunno what I done <= Violet serge, and an expression of annoyance stole over “Could ‘you put it aside until I see—until I go and get the change? wi y piper Rae Meaney ten minutes at the very q¥asue. She has a smattering of mathe-|q clerk at a bargain table, where she matics, English and geography; 8h®/ must start. For instance, one of those ows that pompadours are going Out) giris asked me whet we meant when we 4 waved parts are coming in, an4) qsked—on tho card—where sho had been can tell to a penny how she will ex-|jast employed. “oT dollars?’ asked the lady in With a smile of comprehension, the tired clerk put the tabourette on a top “I wish," maid the interested observer, “that I knew where to get ten dollars in ten minutes.” "Bhe's only going as far ception-room,’"" aid the clerk, sho'll get ft out of her stocking, or her or her shint-waist, or her hair, “Her—buir!" The clerk turned astonished eyes on the interested observer. “Didn't you know that is where most their money?” marked, with superior wisdom, q Not One woman in ten car- ries any more than just car far in her pocketbook." “I always thought women had a pock- et for these things,” _—_$———_—_— “Oh, th certainly, “There -are some women so afra{d for earrings and rings, ‘that they may be separated from some 8h@/of their wealth that they carry it in a| Would | big bag made to hang at the back like | fancy we’ with! ‘bustle and fasten abo them with @ hook tn front." said the lady clerk, found a piace for deposit- ling our wealth where nobody, husband to a pickpocket, would discover That ts in our back hair, trying to tuck yy used to have pockets, but where on earth woman put & pocket nowadays, her skirt fitting like a glove about her) with et Ike wallpaper, and pretty elerk laughed scornfully. are some of them now, hanging on this wel bags’ we call them. hips and her jac no plaque ut the bac not get-at-able? and her petticoat » pockets becdine’ rack, \ ae i =}, | having to remove a hat that It takes you twenty minutes to adjust every time you want a box of caramels or a choc- olate frappe! It was better than un- dreasing to get at the corset front, and it wasn't so bad as having a horribie feeling that your stocking was being Pulled down. But withal it was not ideal. S80 when the npw style of wear- ing the hair high in front and low in the back came in, what was more nat- ural than tucking a fiat little wad or available greenbacks under the pompa- dour right over the ear, or pinning It be- neath a solft twist of Nair at the back." “And yet,” remarked the interested observer, ‘we read in en! . papere every day of women pens of thelr purses, and it plainly ate that the purses contain rolls of money anywhere {rom $15 to A." OF course vou do.” sald the clerk: “put did you never notice that always clther actresses. in, wearch of ress notices or working girls who have just been paid a week's wages, and are hot used to carrying any amount of Money about?” “Here | am,” said a sweet voice at the interested observer's elbow, an the little thing in violet serge, who hi fone out onan oxploring, expedition for a ten-dollar bill, returned to claim her. tabourette. ‘Oh, yea.’ Feniied the lady | slerk suayely, taking down the article from Kept it for there were (wanted to buy behind ‘the sik portler you, you ace. And I ut twenty peop! you were gone. sighed the customer a go, on et her head siugely. an impossibility ten years ago, with the coming in of ‘pull-back’ skirts, ee, they are made with two pockets, bills and a small one them with a hatpin, Tt was a} . but it was very raw. a large one for P| NG crethe RS. "Ceol Rly untry seat, goes for a walk In a blintard there, Aw the Major ts about to di Ceeli's presence, Craven hides her in room —_————_ CHAPTER II, The Major Sces a Ghost. concealment, could hear all that passed in the next room—had) A noise outside attracted her—not ft, could It lable prolonged snore. Misa Rivers lala her hand upon her josom, Emancipation seemed near. ut, and saw the Major in the sullen “Now or never" was ‘Two doors*lay before hor, one lead-j ‘atory, Keeping well in the shadow, ¢ skirted tle wall, and passed eha rst window in all safety. . The Major still snored on tranquilly, “alas, as her in one of * his ki nd turned his head In her dircetion, leaves, istinotly. To fly was the one thought upp:r- Fate. entered t] * mused the Inter “And it's temb emted observer. | time on Re outside and once more unis | ‘ould only Craven. picked neross the deep] @ A month has flown swiftly by ring of spring, "tres green shoots; and, ture ia lifting up its head, rejolcing as * 1 this past month has been one » Kannte one of hot altogether Walcott has been e, but his let-| Wide open the dra ved’ from him. at deviating in the or returned to had sown the distrust in her she would not talk on * evident admiration “Major Jervis!" announced a servant at this supreme moment, it resisted her; In her agitation she had turned the handle the wrong wa; in spite of his gouty foot, wos’ gaining on hor. Mere the kindly gods came to the Major stumblud over the pro . the broken flower-pot and came heayily man thing betrayed tire A nervous {txelf to his the Major | door leading fair was locked on th jit was this way the figure was—had padsed le, Sir Greenry feiris marriod nd the power of m of his to hurt inside; yet surely on her ‘whole heart t other trifies, nobody after all!” aectinintance « He ‘was muttcring 0 | ara room y iruste him entirely: y Craven Is. w dtawing-room, and both are standing in (ry bay window counting the pretty ming un one by continued his chase, 1 Craven return muttering an fmpr With a loud snort, the Major awoke] ing turned ti time ahd entered t he malicious fire blazed brightly, and | jurriedly tain thoueht that the chaplain was a] she knew she was soon, indistinctly, yor nothing daunted, story handle by this! ve oe hed Dake t« not talking, it deaf to what Ca pt is he in contemplation of her own fair sit, he is dressed n'a gown ®f dark-brown velvet, trimmed with come " at the throat and wrists, more than usual becomes aware that he 60, with eps hind a huge ahrub, rich. in Te ead pe adorned one corn with the calmness of despair awaited whispers with trem- Uloun eagerness. ‘Let-mo out of this at ohce—at once." How imprudent of you,” he whispers 1 unkind of you, fuerer™ Tt came in the shape of the Major— lovely, Presently she hot listening im, tells him Giese. i etaad alo auick> 3° AVE. a ara aeat | ha Orphan's Prayer, rory looked eagerly ‘ cod th a, Ho Fi ae SSneersmiary 0 a “The Duchess,” | “How could I think of -anything: but you when you are there opposite to me? is sweet; but you Your voice, ind are even swe No, I heard nothing. asks, with an at- vgh she has grown of his manner, rangely unlike his usual ‘See what? tempt at gayet tue h calm. self. “You, my ‘dainty Artel'—my dari he whispers quickly, ‘The wore from him almost involuntarily Unconsclouly too he fakes And holdy it closely. | Cissy y was before. Why do you call me that?" she says. "Why? You have no right to—no"— He InteFrupts her by a gesture, and colo jdraws her even nearer to him, “Give me the right,” he says eagerly. “You know—you must know by. this time—that there {s nothing In the world * announces a At this #upreme moment ir (Vo Be Con) i, CASTO RIA For Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always Batt pare the Amusements. BLUES DEFEATED —ny— IN THE TENDERFOOT BVERY NIGHT & Wed, & Sat. Mat Gate lid Mo MANSFIELD Boss |: BROADWAY THEATRE, diet St. .4 1 yay Wednewlay [1 HENRY We Sat efits dletocy {| Raymond Hitchcock Yankee Consul rid to have to carry your: that you have to the clerk, nodding and then grows even paler than she | ATLANTIC GARDES | CASINO "yur 4a ye te VAUDBVILLE Tahar, 4s 5 “net ne iB a v (Prizes for Stories # -«# Joe. at of Real Proposals. Ways of Popping the Question. & TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 15, 1904, HE EVENING WORLD offers A PRIZE OF $10 for the best story of an actua! marriage Proposal furnish . for publication by the man who made it. A PRIZE OF $10 is offered for a | woman's account of the most inviting proposal of marriage that she has ac- tually received. A PRIZE OF $5 for the account of the most romantic situation under which @ proposal of marriage was really made, told by either party. Send letters, not over 150 words In length and written on one side of the paper only, to Margaret Hubbard Ayer, Evening World, He “Dared” Her to Marry Him, Dear Mian Ayer: Y¥ mother used to visit a friend of M hers about once a week, and after business hours I generally called to escort her home. This friend had a sister—and a very charming girl, in my estimation, too, On one occasion our conversation drifted to matrimonial af- fairs, and the young lady (now my wife) said if it were fashionable she might have proposed. The next time I called she repeated it, and I told her that since I had last seen her the cus- tom had changed. I finally dared her 10 get married. We eloped, and have no regrets. LA ‘The Professor's Love Story. Dear Miss Ayer F a young girl who had never given | & serious thought to her future, and who on a fine summer day would rather have taken a walk than her Greek lesson, received a note from her teacher of the ancient languages like the following: “My dear Iriend: Your ac- quaintance’and friendship have been source of great pleasure to me from the first, and more and more so as I have become better acquainted with you. Nothing would please me more than the continuance and increase of friendship with one wHo seems to possess all the womanly qualities in a high degree, and that our acquaintance should be come something far mae than mere friendship. But you know there ts only one way in which this can be! Then may I not hope that by and by you will become my life companion, the light of my home, to love me, to counsel and encourage me, to help make my life a Amusements. AN IMPENDING EVENT OF IMPRESSIVE IMPORTANCE. MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, AT a O'CLOCK. Evening exhibition at 8 o'clock, Doors oven at 1 and 7 for an hour's saunter through the Menageries. ‘museum, stupendous eallery of living huian curionitien and. mee the Rua wan Dancers, Troape of Midgets, etc, ete. BARHUN & BAILET. Greatest Show on Earth, Presenting everything new this year but Dame. A, colowal amusement palnce filed with wonders: 8% hours of continuous thr Ine performances. Magnificent representation of the Grand Oriental Pageant, The Gorgeous Delhi Durbar 100 Circus Acts by 800 Artists Ancilotti, the Modern Ariel, In the latest and xreatest Parisian sensation, LOOPING THE GAP. VOLO, THE WIZARD VOLITANT, wheeling down @ precipitous incline with stupendous lean, descending @ steep ladder in a carrying act. wheelie al Mother. 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RAGA Genbicg lat Sasustay,biicn| Selo & Chico, the Marvellous Unicyclists, | CYCLO, the Bese Demon, & Dogs | Eaat 14th st, Headed by Pat Retily & Bonita. | MATINEE TO- MORROW. 28c-50¢ |CROSMA\ sw Grand @, "Medal te: Maid Margaret Hubbard Ayer. success, to be all that to me that « true and loving wife can be?" &¢., &¢, would {t not set her to thinking? It wam this proposal that made the Iastmg «mpret> sion and set to thinking ever since over twenty-five . Stiie TEACH OR'S WIFE. * College Point, N.. Be Thrown Together by Ocean. Dear Mise Ayer: NCE when I was crossing the: Ate 0 lantic a great wave washed oven! the deck of our ship and ‘have certainly carried me over the Bule warks but for the timely ald strong young man who tad’ beer against me by the same wave. fil. Seeing my terrible position he , me in his arms and carried me 0 and before our journey ended he asked ie abet a aPC ae 60 ‘ALIGN. Love Affatr of a School Girhy.,. Doar Miss Ayer: Mw husband proposed to me whéw = was thirteen years old. I was (_ Siar alone one day studying my lesson. At that he walked into @e room and leaned against the mantel- plece. Looking down at me he sald: “You must answer this question before I will let you finish your study, and, ~ that 1s, avill you promise me you will be my ‘ttle wife? And when I finish: college we will get married.” The gyd- den quenton took me by surprise,"Det I sal es,” and here we are, mar jG) ried and happy. BS. Amusements. at » EMPIRE THEATRE. 1 way & 40th st: Xurvrcun thomas FAR OTHER Ob comedy, et. & Biwi HERALD ‘loge Bich Time March 2u-Sou entra” “THE GIRL TU SONG It aS. FROM KAY’S DALY?S 5,2: 284 in AS YOU LI ts Matiness To-say, Thuretay fyi EVEKYMA Origing’ HUDSON "Bessa se sictk Wee See HENRY MILLER pudiotee RE it ws Sy par 1b Mate. Wed, Meiteby’ Hleanor Robson wth"tty i0int Lime March 25—Souventrs, SAVOY THBATRE, Biwar ~ Hith et Bye &. 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