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Show 8mall-Callber Martinets. All public Institutions, I hero assert, thould have as their employees only pcoplo who aro courteous, pleasant and kind. Ono of tho greatest hard I ships of poverty is to bo obliged to I face the autocrntlc martinets who I seem to guard tho doorways of all such organizations. Thero Is something do-tcstablo do-tcstablo and offensive In tho frozen, Impatient nnd often Insulting mnnncr of tho women and men who occupy lit-tlo lit-tlo positions of authority llko this, nnd beforo whom poor working girls and, I suppose, men muBt always go. From "Me, a nook of nememhranco," In tho Century Magazine. |