South Bend Mirror, February 16, 1945

              FEBRUARY 16, 1945
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clerks and the like, spend their
time typing out letters which begin: "Walter, old sock— $Jb©ui
that Drinkem Good Beer account
Couldn't we ^ lunch over it? Say,
next Tuesday at one? Give ijae a
ring, and, say, aren't we ever going to play off that squash bet?" >
But it was not always thus. Behind that efficient and beasaMwl
facade of my-sister, the New York
secretary, lay a dark and remarkable past. Indeed, to be perfectly
frank about it, my dear sister Eileen, at the tender age of ei^ateeri,
was renowned throughout tfae
kaogth and breadsn of Northern
C£hio as the veritable werewolf of
Commerce, the walking Scourge of
Big Business. "What did I five;:
do," one of her early employers
groaned as he fired her, "u» d«~
serve you?" And eveif Eileen admitted it must have been something pretty awful.
Of course Eileen always blamed
her youthful catasiropnes in the
business world or! what'-she liked
to call her speech defect. The family felt this was a pretty jwwnpou-
way of describing a slight lisp ana
stuttering over tne telephone. Father, in fact, said bitterly that'he
noticed Eileen could always hoici
a job just long enough to buy the
new spring suit she had in mind,
or the riding habit she couldn't
live without. And it really was
true that by the merest -coincidence Eileen was .always getth&g
fired, in the most spectacular ways,
the weeks she had an invitation
to go sailboatin^ in Maisie, or
horseback riding in North Carolina, or skiing in Vermont. Oaee
she got fired just in time to make
the train for the Yale Junior Prom.
Father said that was the last
straw. He kept referring to himself as a camel for days afterwards
and pointing out that his back was
completely broken.
R
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Movie actress Mary Howard models a Dalmatian print, complete
with a Dalmatian for an accessory.
Eileen got another job when she
returned, in her leisurely way,
from New Haven. Father found it
extremely baffling. "I wouldn't
any more hire you!" he bellowed
over the family dinner table, giving Maizie, the new family retainer, an awful shock.    "Don't they
WHAT'S NEW FOR SPRING
COME of do changes lit the new
**■) Spring fashions are above the
waistline, and some are below.
Happily foremost figures, the widened shoulrterllne remains unchanged. Necklines are high and
younger. Sleeves are all sorts and
kinds from practically no sleeve at
all, as In the dresses pictured, to
•long shirtsleeve sleeves and dolman-
type sleeves. The small waistline
look is more important than ever,
and is heightened, ln many dresses,
'with a peplum or tunic flare at the
hips, or -with a skirt given fullness
all the way around.
Those   who  lifce  the   clean   cut
smartness of stripes and the neatness of checker will he glad to hear
tfeit New York's famous designers
-"•?. pfeetity of .both this Spring
~"*pie.u8 and cottons. Lots
« such as faille and
ever ask you for references? Don't
they want to know where you
worked before?"
My sister looked at Father.    A
merry smile flickered on her rosy
lips, one large blue eye was momentarily blotted out by a long.
carefully cultivated black eyelash.
"Eileen!" Father roared, his jaw
dropping in horror.
"Don't get excited," Eileen said
hastily. "I just say my poor father had" a bank and it failed and
now he's a permanent invalid, and
I'm the sole support of my four
sisteis, who were brought up with
every sort of luxury, and then I
sort of sniffle a little and say I
never thought I'd have to be seeking employment, and—"
Father paled from shock. He
operated the Gladsome Washing
Machine Company on the theory
that honesty was the best policy,
except of course when a dirty dog
of a competitor double-crossed
you, and here was his own daughter bouncing around Cleveland
telling the most outrageous stories,
mulcting trusting fellow businessmen out of jobs by the very worst
sort of double-dealing! It was
enough to turn his hair gray, he
said, and of course Eileen had never given a thought to the fact that
she was probably ruining his credit going arund saying he'd had a
bank that failed.
"Don't worry, Father," Eileen
murmured tenderly. "I can put
in a fix for you."
Father choked on his coffee.
"That's where my new job is,"
Eileen said demurely. "The Central and Northern Ohio Credit Report Bureau, Ink, Go—od Morn—
ing.    I run the switchboard too."
The entire family, down to my
small brother, regarded Eileen in
stunned silence.
"The switchboard," Father said
at length. "I thought you stuttered
on the telephone."
A shadow crossed my beautiful
sister's face. "I have to spell it
out."
Nobody believed her. I rang up
the next morning, just to check up.
Eileen's voice, bright and cheerful, began immediately after the
click.     "The    C-e-n-t-r-a-1    and
N-o-r-t-h-e-r-n Ohio Cr-cr-c-r-HSAf
d-i-t R-r-r-r-e-p-o-r-t B-b-b-b-
bureau, In-cor-por-ate-ed, g-g-g-jjij
g-\" There was a pause. I couic£]
hear Eileen taking a deep breath
and counting ten. "G-o-o-d Morn^
innnng."
I hung up quietly.
Eileen   rather   liked   her   ne\vH
work at first, in spite of the telephone.   The first few days, in fact,
she was quite enchanted. The Central and Northern Ohio Credit Report Bureau, Inc., among other ac-,
tivities,     investigated     insurance^
frauds—and it fell to Eileen's lot,
between   switchboard   duties,   to.
type the reports of the worthy investigators.    The very first week^
Eileen went to work, Mr. Fenwick.f
(On Page Ninei
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CLEANING
The South Bend Window
Cleaning Company
129 North Main Street
Phone 4-3251
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W. G. Bogardus
E. C. Beery
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228 S. Michigan Street
EVENINGS BY APPOINTMENT
^-Photos courtesy^ New York Dress. Institute
Stripes buttoned into the coolest
possible little black-on-yellow crepe
dress, left, with extended shoulder*
sleeves. Above, a button-on peplum
of black grosgrain gives a crisp look
to the slim silhouette of a black
and white print.
paper taffetas are shown along "with
printed crepes and jerseys. Some
of the crepes are trimmed with \
satin for date dresses, and others
have such erisp accents as faille
collar and cuffs and poeket bandings, faille peplums or set4n midriffs, or faille hemlines.
Little petticoats are back, showing under suit skirts, and lots of
bustle hack fashions, even for the
beach, add to the back interest of
, other skirts,
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