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The Good, the Bad, the Otherwise
And a Few Laconics By l. a. l.
MORE AGITATION FOR THE
WORKING GIRL.
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T’S an off year when our feel
ings arc not harrowed by the
tales of the sufferings, priva
tions, temptations and ago
nies of “the poor working
girl.” Some of these days, the P.
;W. G., augmented by a lot of work
ing women are going to rise in meet
ing and speak out.
There is a tendency that grows
stronger every year among a cer
tain class of people in these U. S.
of A. to exploit some thing, or some
one. They are never so happy as
when they are going about, asking
for alms, old clothes or “relief” in
some form or other, for their self
chosen recipients.
One of the most galling phases of
poverty is thife branch of philanth
ropy that goes about with a brass
hand and transparent signs, to tell
the size and nature of their muni
ficence.
The working girls and women of
big cities, who are not trained for
professions, have a bad time of it,
>in a great many instances. The
hours, especially of saleswomen, are
long, the’ duties trying, and in many
of the larger shops, the pitiful wages
are lessened by a series of petty
fines, assessments for so-called bene
volent societies, and other channels
which leave no choice but paying, to
the saleswoman who would hold her
gob.
Has it ever occurred to the self
appointed women philanthropists
just how much they are to blame for
much of the horror of the working
girls position?
Over dressed, patronizing, self
satisfied, many of these women,
freed of home ties and regarding the
shops very much as one regards a
visit to the theatre, they sally forth
and add to the misery of hundreds
of women less fortunate than them
feelves, by their exactions, their
faultfinding, the quickness with
which they report often fancied
slights and give little thought to
What that all amounts to in the pay
envelope, at the end of the week, for
the saleswoman.
Northern shops are the greatest
sinners in this respect, and the fact
that few saleswomen, in the depart
ment stores ever average more than
eight dollars a week, means tragedy
When fines for impoliteness, inatten
tion to customers, errors in sales-
Slip, in getting correct addresses or
names are counted.
The woman of leisure can do much
to lighten the load of these sisters
of toil, and she can do it without
organizing or banquetting.
This is the time of year when the
lot of the saleswoman calls for spe
cial prayers for patience, charity
and fortitude. She has to be patient
while women shop for things they
don’t know the uses of;* she has to
wait patiently and cheerfully while
they “make up their minds”
she has to remember a dozen
charges in as many minutes, and her
tired eyes, head, hands and feet
must never fail to respond to the ex
acting days and nights of the before-
Christmas trade.
Women are always hardest on wo
men. For the smirking “floor wal
ker” their manner is cherriness it
self; for the unhappy saleswoman, it
is a cross between the tone they use
in reprimanding the cook or find
ing fault with a poor relation.
If women were prompt in settling
their bills, the proprietors of the de
partment stores assure us there
would lie less difficulty in paying bet
ter wages.
Are you .very thoroughly familiar
with the woman who will run up
Jjills she knows she can’t pay, and
THE JEFFERSONIAN
who tears up the reminders the first
of each month, to keep the day of
reckoning from her husaband’s
knowledge, as long as possible.
The woods are full of her, and
she orders home a twenty dollar hat,
when she knows ten would be wildly
extravagant, with the same noncha
lance the professional gambler stakes
his last blue chip, and with about as
much care for the future.
Let’s make a new rule for this
Christmas —give less newspaper
“philanthropy,” and more of the
genuine sort.
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Kinging isn’t the job it used to be.
4
Do those pious Christians also see
“the Hand of God” in this “holy”
war of the Turks?
Arizona, in enforcing a law against
alien labor, has taken a step other
States will do well to follow.
4
Italy has a “watchful, waiting”
policy of her own which does not
seem to suit Germany, at present.
4
Wouldn’t you think the Mexicans
would sorter get mixed as to the
identity of their on-the-job-presi
dent?
What more fitting than that Rich
ard Croker, one-time ‘Tammany
Chief” should become a “squaw
man?”
' 4
It is said that a possible result of
the present European war may be
the restoration of the Jews to power
in Palestine.
A Northern New York candidate
for office was named Rann; he lived
right up to his name and landed on
the job he was after, too.
“Scientific Eating” is the name of
a new book which won’t have much
of a sale at this time of the-higher
cost-of-living, we surmise.
“Ripper” legislation bears the
same relation to the legitimate sort
that “steam roller” methods do to
the regular, in conventions.
Congressman Gardner says the
United States navy is full of junk.
Agreed—and think what the Steel
Trust got for putting it there.
4
“Dogs of war” is no longer a
figure-of-speech; the French army
has some sure enough canines,
trained to help the French soldiers.
4
There need be no worry of the
United States being embroiled in war
at this time, if the Secretary of State
will stay on his job and get wise to
his duties.
William Rockefeller has enough
voic left to plead “not guilty” to the
charges against him as a director in
the New Haven Railroad case.
Actually, there is one high-brow
writer who has the nerve, at this
stage of the European war, to pub
lish an article on “Social conditions
on Mars.”
4
“Union” labor seems to be of
many varieties. That controlled by
the foreign element, as in Colorado,
had better be called by another
name.
A new gas has been discovered,
made from water, naptha and two
other ingredients. Its cost to pro
duce is one and a half cent per gal
lon, but by the time a trust is formed
and controls it, the product will
move right up into the class with
John D’s oils.
The New York World is losing
some staunch friends in its tirade
against “race segregation,” which is
to be deplored.
4
‘Standing on the promontory of
Today, you look forward and you see
the Infinite.” Mebbe so, but most
of us, if it’s the today-first-of-the
month, see only “Please Remit.”
If they can devise a submarine
war-vessel with an absolutely sure
safety-first device, more of us will
be interested in Uncle Sam’s plan to
build them.
The Japanese are looking with in
terest at a list of Christmas pres
ents they made to themselves in the
shape of loot from the German
stronghold in China.
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lu spite of the novelty of aeroplan
ing having won off, the usual num
ber of aerial navigators seem to
make their last appearance before
the coroner.
4
Parts of Canada have passed a law
closing all serving of liquors at pub
lic places by G p. m., which gives the
Canadian father a poor excuse for
going to see a man after supper.
4
Pity the poor farmer! Uncle Sam
has had to issue a warning to al!
who are buying seed Irish potatoes.
“Powdery scab” has afflicted the po
tato crop of Maine, hence the warn
ing.
Women’s skirts to be wider, and
petticoats to be the fashion again.
Praise be! Maybe the Southern
planter can keep on planting cotton
to his heart’s content, after all.
4
Between Ty Cobb getting offers of
gobs of dollars from baseball back
ers, and Irving Cobb getting inter
views with high up Englishmen, it
looks like a good year for the Cobb
family, eh?
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4
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4
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4
Here’s a tip to husbands, from
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