| Show BOTH DEMAND AND SUPPLY but unfortunately atie demand W not tor the thank supplied two little women ran up against each other enthusiastically the other day on a street corner and tha greeting over the following conversation took place all in the same breath 1 youre the very one I 1 wanted to see and youre the very one I 1 wanted to see do you know of a house where a lovely woman and her daughter could be employed as janitress no I 1 dont but do you know of an intelligent girl who would go to a literary woman to read to her and dust around a little every day no but do you know of a place in the country where a good girl could work for her board no the least idea but do you know of a here as they each had paused for breath the of the situation struck them andi they fell against each other and roared mildly as any jolly lighthearted light hearted relief committee might be expected to do and after buzzing briefly each sped her special errand not in the least discouraged it at once occurs to disinterested observer one who is not a committee of anything that when a labor bureau runs up against an intelligence office each as a writer in the new york recorder pays in a condition of fermenting animation or animated fermentation that the natural consequence would be that the wants of one would be fitted to the wants of the other such is however rarely the case adaptability is not one of the qualities roaming at large even in a season of want and privation like the present one the advertisements of help wanted rarely fit those in the column marked employment wanted it is the privilege of capital to expect to be sought by labor the labor that seeks diligently stands a chance of becoming capital itself later on the principle holds the successful merchant watches the market and adjusts himself and his ideas to it mohammed is great but the mountain is greater |
