Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 192, 23 June 1914 — Page 8

PAGE EIGHT THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1914

Married Life the Fourth Year

By MABEL HERBERT URNER. "There is a bunch you can wade through." and Warren threw down a great bundle of letters tied together with a stout twine. Not all those?" Helen turned over the bundle in amazement. "Surely you did not get that many answers to just one advertisement ?" "That is the crop," grimly. Helen had untied the string and was now glancing hastily over the envelopes. In varied handwriting they were all addressed to "H. 166, The American." She started to open one. "Better wait until after dinner. I want to be fortified with a good square meal before I tackle that job. It is slchenlng getting these from one ad. for a twelve-dollar a week stenographer." Kven Warren had been touched by the mute appeal of all these letters. There were at least two hundred and all but one must be disappointed. "A 200 to 1 chance on a twelve-dollar job," as he expressed it. All through dinner Helen thought of that mass of letters waiting to be opened. It was appalling that so many women should be seeking this one very moderately paid position. While Warren had given Miss Perry eighteen dollars she had worked up to that from twelve. When they went back into the library, Helen got the paper knife for Warren, a hat pin for herself, and spread out the letters on the table. "You pick out the best of them. I haven't the patience to go through that lot." Helen was intensely interested. Were it not for her aching sympathy for so many girls seeking employment, she would have enjoyed going through these letters, with their varied glimpses of character. She was opening now a square white envelope of good quality. "Dear Sir: "Replying to your advertisement in today's American, I should like to apply for the position. "I have had two years experience in h lawyer's office, and six month's with the Brocton Publishing Company, and have references from both these places. "Trusting that you will give me the opportunity of calling, "Very respectfully, "EDNA M. WOODARD." Helen laid this one aside; its brevity, the handwriting and the stationery were all good. A DISGUISED LETTER. The next one was typewritten, and lrom the scrawled signature, it suggested that the typewriter was used to disguise the weakness of the writing. When she had opened several more Helen was surprised to find how similar they were. Apparently most of them were modeled after some specimen letter of application, given in the business schools. And yet there were distinctive characteristics about them all. The stationery ranged from the cheap bluish white paper to frivolous note paper, tinted, initialed or even monogramed. Helen wondered why so few had realized the value of a good heavy quality of plain white stationery. "Dear, listen to this one. Doesn't it sound rather good?" "i feel that I am particularly fitted for a position in a lawyer's office, as my father was an attorney in Baltimore, Aid., and I was his stenographer for a number of years. I have just

come to New York and am anxious to secure a position here." "Yes, that sounds all right. Let's see it. Perfumed, eh?" with a disapproving sniff. "Well, we don't want her." "Walter R. Blake why that is a man!" mused Helen, glancing at the signature of another letter. "He writes well, too. Dear, would you want a young man stenographer?" "Nope!" with conviction. "Why?" "Don't tend to business. Not as dependable. as a girl." "Well, then," triumphantly, "If women are as good or better workers than men, why are they paid so much less?" The silence of the next half hour But at that moment Helen was too busily engaged with another letter to dwell upon the unfairness of this. The silence of the next half nous was broken only by the sound of the paper knife as it ripped open tue envelopes. Now and then one went on the chosen pile, but most of them Helen passed over with a sigh. "See here!" Warren looked up from his paper, "can't you tell by the envelopes? Just open the best looking ones.or you will never get through." "Oh, no no, we must read them all. They at least deserve a hearing. Dear, isn't this pathetic? A girl out. in Jersey who is willing to work for less than $12 until she can prove her 'ability' and she spells ability with an e! Yet she is a graduate 'of Moore's business college." "That is the trouble," shrugged Warren. "These business schools grind them out by the thousand. They are spoiling good cooks and housekeepers and making blamed poor stenographers. How many replies did you get last fall when you put that ad. in for a maid?" "Only three." "Three, eh? And for a stenographer I get about two hundred! There is your solution for your stenographer on starvation wages. Let some of these girls go to cooking schools, take some special course say pastry cooking. How long do you think they would be without --ob?" "Yes. I know, dear. But I can understand it is the social difference. In an office they think they have a better chance of marying and after all, that is what they are hoping for." "Huh, they read these newspaper yarns of the millioiv.ire broker marrying his stenographer. Well they they stand about as much chance of that as a snowball in" "Oh, here is a wonderful one! Do

j listen to this: ! " 'I am an expert stenographer j and typist. Can operate any j standard machine at ninety words I a minute, and can take the most ' rapid dictation and transcribe my notes with absolute accuracy. Can j also take dictation in both French and German, and have studied j law." I "Pass that up, she knows too blamed ! much for $12 per week." But on the whole, most of the leti ters were modest, earnest, straightj forward applications for work. And i in spite of Warren's cynical comments, j the average was very high. There ; were at least seventy-live letters from experienced stenographers, any one of I whom Helen felt would be a capable ! and conscientious worker. Of these I seventy-tive she rhd selected twenty j which she now pushed toward WarI ren. "Great Scott! I can't see all those! ! Half a dozen is enough." j The selection of these final six was the hardest of all. One by one, Helen discarded the other fourteen with an unpleasant feeling that somehow she

was responsible for these girls not having a chance, Warren glanced over the chosen six, with a brief: "All right. Want to write tuern now and finish up the job? Tell them to call day after tomorrow, Thursday, before twelve." "But, Warren, shouldn't the letters be in your handwriting?" "What difference does that make? They will be glad enough to come. Here, this form will do," and one of the envelopes Warren scrawled: "Please call Thursday between eleven and twelve o'clock for an interview regarding the position for which you apply. Yours truly, "W. E. CURTIS." Helen got out some of Warren's business stationery, and with painstaking care copied the form to each of the six chosen applicants. "Why in thunder don't you buy fifty cents worth of stamps and keep them here?" growled Warren, when Helen, knowing that he always fumed at her inadequate writing supplies, reluctantly admitted that she had only two stamps. Later, when he grumblingly started out for them. Helen turned to the mass of letters that still ilttered the table, with a hopeless, "Dear, what SHALL I do with all these?" "Chuck them in the waste basket. What else can you do with them?" But as Helen slowly gathered them up, she felt she could not throw them away. Every letter had its atmosphere of hope and expectancy and now to send them down with the garbage in the morning! The next moment she had spread out a large sheet of manilla paper, in which she wrapped all the letters and tied them securely. Then she got the kitchen stepladder chair and with the letters climbed up to the top shelf of the hall closet. As she pushed some boxes aside to make room for the package, she found the shelf was warm from

the pipes that ran up through the wall. It was foolish, of coures, but Helen laid them far back on the shelf with a sense of pleasant content, as though she was putting something almost human into a safe, warm and secure place. "Hello, what are you doing up there?" Warren, who had come back, now stood before the closet door. "Oh, dear, I I couldn't quite throw them away! You may want another stenographer some time or we may hear of some one who does. I couldn't send these letters down with the waste paper. Somehow I like to think of them being up there!" "Hold on there, be careful!" as Helen started to climb down. He reached up his strong arms and swung her down. Then with one of his rare moments of tenderness, he stooped over and kissed her with a laughing: "You little sentimentalist, you!"

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Misses Pearl Alexander and Emma Riley, who have been attending school at Winona, arrived home Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Amos Surface and son, Charles Surface and family motored to Eaton, O., Sunday and spent the day with relatives. A. C. Quigg, of Richmond, was greeting friends here Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Jess Horn and children left Saturday for Nottawa, Mich., to spend two week vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Eckerle and daughters Sadie and Jennie, Mr. and Mrs. John Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Os Bly and baby attended the Worch reunion at Greenville, O., Sunday. Dr. C. C. Wright left Saturday for Clear Lake, where his family have been visiting relatives. They expect to snend two weeks at Nottawa. Mich..

j fishing before returning home. I Will Jones, a former Lynn citizen,

but now located at Ridgeville, was a visitor in town Saturday. George Clark is driving a Saxon auto, which he brought

from Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Claude Van Arsdale. of Chicago, arrived home Thursday to spent several weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Manuel. George Ward and Tom Thornburg, of Winchester, were visitors in town Saturday. Henry Hawkins was a business visitor in Richmond Wednesday. Mrs. C. L. Baird and daughter Rachel, of Fort Wayne, were the Sunday guests of her father S. C. Bowen. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Moore and son, Louis, of Alexanuria, are spending the week with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Halliday. The Epworth League convention of this district will be held in Dunkirk this week. Mrs. Joseph Chamness expects to chaperon a crowu of Juniors, who will take part in the program. George L. Eckrle and daughter of Carlettsburg, Ky., surprised his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Eckerle, who were attending the Worch re

union at Greenville. O., Sunday by putting in his appearance in the after

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