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Show HER FACE HER FORTUNE. Why One Girl Got a Good Paying and Easy Position. She was a sweet looking girl, with as fair a pink and white complexion as woman ever desired, and was chatting with one of her own sex on a Staten iMiinu lerrjuoai, wnne j was seated so near that I could not help hearing. Several times my truant eyes deserted my paper and stole a glance at the face that was so attractive. "It was the luckiest thing that ever happened to me," she said to her companion, com-panion, "when I went into that Fifth avenue store just to buy a comb. How little 1 thought that I would be working work-ing there at greater wages than I had ever hoped to earn! I hesitated about going in, because I feared the prices would be too high, but I did go in and I came out with a comb without paying I a cent for it. And. better than all, I j bad been engaged to begin the next ! Monday as a saleswoman. I "I was nearly discouraged before j that, for I was getting only $4 a week, ; and we were awfully pinched at home i but my luck changed cn that day, and it was Friday, too. Fortunately for me, the store was crowded when I went in, . and the proprietor left his desk that ! tdands in a little railed-off corner and came to wait on me. 1 noticed that he looked very sharply at me, but not at all in an impudent manner. "'Pardon me, miss,' he said, 'but ' I am looking for a young lady to assist me in the store here, and if your circumstances cir-cumstances arc such that you would care for the place 1 would like to have you consider it.' "I was wonderfully surprised, but thanked him, saying that I knew nothing noth-ing about the business. " "That doesn't matter. he replied. 'You can soon learn it. To be frank, I would like to have you on account of your complexion. You know we sell all sorts of goods for the complexion and articles for beautifying, and your face would do more to make sales than all of the arguments and representations representa-tions that could be made.' "Well, the result was that I got a fine place, with easy work, at $15 a week. My hours are short, and I simply play , the agreeable while selling goods at j an immense profit. I wouldn't let any I of the concoctions touch my face for anything, but the customers appear to be impressed by my complexion, and I the proprietor is satisfied. So am I." j New York Herald. |