And if you can fix it up with Walter you do not have to worry about
me Mom for I will sure get some job even if I have to go to work in a
factory. And I am going to go straight for your sake and Pop’s even if
Walter does believe all them hateful things about me that he said to me
and right before Mr. Edgerton. Well I am going to rest my tired feet
today and tomorrow I will start out looking for a job in a department
store.
* * * * *
P. S. Oh Mom I have had the most wonderful good fortune! I told you
onst that I am Cinderella and that the fairy coach was waiting for me
and now it is going to take me right almost into the palace!
Well Monday a. m. I start out hunting a job and the sun is come out hot
and it is like summer and I have got on my winter suit and I am nearly
fainting so I have to go home and change it and gee all that I have got
is a shirtwaist that is got a darn in the elbow and my old blue skirt
that is all faded and it sure does make me miserable to look like that
when I have been such a real lady all winter. But I put it on and am
starting out again when my landlady calls me she is got a telegram that
is come for me it is got no name signed but it says for me to come to
lunch at the little cheap place where we have et when we was scared of
Mrs. Edgerton. And of course I know it is Mr. Edgerton and I want to
run back and get my good clothes on but I am late already and have got
to hustle for the street car.
Well there is Mr. Edgerton waiting for me and he has been there
quite a while and he says there is a serious emergency in the
government and he needs my advice and it is very inconvenient not to be
able to get me quick when he needs me. And I says, “I am so sorry but I
was out hunting for a job.”
“What?” he says. “A job? Why is that?”
“Did you not understand that I am no more at the Elite Beauty Parlors?”
I says.
“Yes,” he says, “but I thought you must of got something better.”
“I have not got nothing,” I says. “I left that place because I am a
free American citizen,” I says, “and I would not stand for having that
old she-devil bossing me about. And all them girls is a pack of sheep
but I am one that is got some spirit.”
“Of course,” he says. “And what are your plans?”
“I am trying to get into a department store.”
“Oh Miss Riggs,” he says, “but do not do that because you had ought to
have some job that will leave you time to get off now and then when
your country needs you,” he says.
“That is all very well,” I says, “but my country has never showed me no
such job,” I says.
“But why did you not tell me about it?” he says.
“I did not have a chanced,” I says, “what with the way that crazy boy
Walter behaved and made me so ashamed and anyhow I am not going to put
my troubles off on you,” I says.
“Troubles?” he says. “But that is absurd Miss Riggs. What is an
Administration for if it is not to have jobs?”
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