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Show "HELP WANTED" AT THE LYRIC MONDAY EVE j A fow linos frcm elp Wanted, in j which air. Thcouoro Lorch will ap- . pear nt tho Lyric on Monday oven- . ing: Help Wanted, tells ot a rich New I York Importer, who advertises for a I stenographer to bo his private sec- rctar'. Ho wants her to be young and pretty. In rcsponso to his ad-vertlocmcnt ad-vertlocmcnt comes "many applicants, ho sees soveral, ho wants tho ono ' ho chooses to como to his private of- ' flco at night, If necessnry. Ho Is polite, po-lite, demonalr, nnd Insinuating. Ho picks out a fresh, Inexperienced mutd Ho sees others, ono of them is a wlso virgin, sho Is not to bo cnught ensl'y. Ho offored her a chair. Thank you. I prefer to stand, sho says, rcmnrklng that her ago Is twon-ty, twon-ty, hor experlonco thrco yenrs nnd her sa'ary $15 per weok. No, sho could not como to nn offlco building at night. Yes, sho Is loncsomo at times, all decent girls In big cities are. Sho finds a dearth of true sweothcarts. Most of tho young follows fol-lows nro Jolly and tho older ones nro married. Sho does not bcllovo l harmless fllrtntlons. No, sho Is not prudish, but sho knows men nnd employers em-ployers especially. To this man who calls hor prudish sho says: "Is It prudish not to tako favors that I can't repay without being a'ono with my conscience? Is It prudish not to dlno with a man who would Jump out of tho nearest window win-dow If his wife walked In? If not giving kisses to men who have- no right to nsk for them, oxcopt that I havo to work for a living is prudish, then I am prudish, and Just a llttlo bit proud that I am. I mny bo attractive at-tractive as you say, I almost wish I wcro not; It cost mo my last place. Later sho sees tho llttlo girl who has been chosen to bo the stenographer. stenogra-pher. Sho Is a pretty Incompetent. Tho wlso ono says to her: "Look out, glrllo, look out! I only talked with that man Scott two minutes min-utes beforo I got his numbor. I know his kind. That sort ot a man wou'J not put up with nn Incompetent for a minute If that poor old bookkeep or mado ono mistako ho'd throw him out of Hint window. When ho hires a new ono and a young ono and a pretty ono like you, and pny8 moro than tho market price, and puts you In his private offlco whero ho docs not want outsiders to peep In ho doesn't want a stenographer." "What does ho want? "A playmate." "I don't bo'Iovo you." "Aro you blind? Why oven a Rlrl of nlnotecn ought to know something They don't tench It to you In business busi-ness college, but It should bo u part of femalo Instinct. Stop. That Is ono work thoy don't teach you. Keop It in the tip of your tongue you'll need It, say, let mo glvo you n little tip. You'ro In a now world now. You'll meet a lot of men of tho kind you havo novor met before men who do things men who aro things' men who don't havo to wait for Saturday night for their Income nnd their holidays. holi-days. Thoy will hypnotise you with their forcofulncss nnd then thoy will toll you that you aro beautiful and your llttlo bond will open with the consciousness by such giants. They will rave about your lips and your eyes and your hair, till you'll wonder won-der why nobody over found out beforo be-foro that you wero so lovely they'll get you drunk not necessarily on wlno, but with hopes nnd promises nnd dreams and now sonsntlons. Thoy havo so much to offer, and you havo so llttlo to return, and nobody not oven a girl likes to bo a bad sport. |
