Taking an Unfair Advantage

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 42, 24 September 1892, Page 4

Taking an Unfair Advantage

There are now in New York, according to an American contemporary, about half a dozen younj? women who are employed as collectors by tailors. There is one young women employed by a Fifth Aye ue tailor, whose average earnings are £10 a week, and she does not work more than six hours a day. 'It isn't nearly so bad as it seems,' said she * Tu© fi"st time. 1 went into an office I thought I should iaint. It was only with the greatest efforfi that I could make myself »o there at all. But the man paid me utmost without saying a word. It didn't take me five minutes, and mv commission was ten dollars. That encouraged me, and now I get along- splendidly. But it takes lots of assurance at times. Still, I have never been treated discourteously but once. The worst trouble is that the men want to invite you to dinner, to the theatre, an-i all that sort of thing.' When a goodlooking young woman, nicely dressed, appears at an office, and says that she wants to see Mr Putoff, the office boy never dreams af enquiring what aer business may be. He simply goes to the young man and says that a iadv wishes to see him, and he adds, with the office boy's privilege, that she is young and pretty. Mr Putoff never dreams of demanding to know ; her business before he goes out. He appears with a smile, and greets her with politeness. And when she looks at him shyly and timidly, and murmurs with a little catch in her voice : 'Oh Mr Putoff, you'll pardon me,' he feels that there is nothing on 3arth he would not dp to help the beautiful girl who is in distress. He does not notice the slip of white paper in her hand. And then when she tells him that she has called to collect the little bill which he owes to Cuttem and Tailor, it daze« him. He pays the bill before he can recover from his amazement.— St. Jame'x Gazette.