People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1895 — Typewriters Like to Be Petted. [ARTICLE]

Typewriters Like to Be Petted.

Typewriter girls are said to f-o.v attached to their machines, and to roga> d them almost as much in the light o iivmg creatures to be peited and managed and judiciously di*eiplinyd as the traditional railroad engine rs of fiction do ti.eir locomotiv s. to which they invariably refer witn t.ie personal feminine pronoun. The typewri, ing young women deciare that their machines are as sensitive and subject to cnprice, ane that they know who is opera ing them as well as a dog knows i>s master, that they will sulk, and perhaps flare up aud refuse to work at all, under unskilled manipulation, and that they can be soothed into a complacent and obliging frame of mind again simply by the return of their usual manipulator.