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Show Pretty "St enos Begin to Worry About Isolation Luncheons and Shopping Serious Matters With Lassies at Capitol. , T BEST it's goiag to be a l unch-in-a-hand-bag sort of existence," remarked one of several stenographers of the various state oiiices in course of trans-ier trans-ier from down-town business blocks to the capitol. Several of the young woni-en woni-en who safeguard the efficiency of as many offices together with tne officers, of-ficers, of conrse were talking over the move as taffy stood in the hallway of one of the business blocks yesterday. '' What will be the satisfaction of receiving re-ceiving an invitation to lunch after we get so far from food and service! To accept would be to enter upon a foot race against time, with the last lap of the race course up a steep hill and under un-der the handicap of a stomach hastily stoked with Half-masticated food, continued the fair pessimist. "Yes, and I know plenty of men whose business brings them frequently to the office who will not fail to bo free with luncheon invitations as soon as they get wise to the fact that a girl can't possibly make it down town and back within the hour," said an austere one of the group. 'I don :t mind about the luncheons," lunch-eons," 6aid the carefully dressed little "steno" of prim manner, "but what is one to do about shopping? Leaving tho capitol as soon after & o'clock as will be possible, one cannot get down town much before most of the stores close, except on Saturday night; and then think of plowing through the jam in search of something that one doesn't even know one wants." 1 ' Weli, ' ' said an imperious young woman in judicial manuer, "we can't have everything. The offices are delightfully de-lightfully clean, convenient and roomy. But the "big thing is the distinction and exclusiveness that will set us oif from the rest. I think I shall like it." Just at this point the drayman arrived. ar-rived. The parties to the discussion rushed away with the ruefle of a covey of partridges and the elevator man was able to hear no more. |