The place did not require much concentration--a
dentist's office, where her chief duties consisted of opening the
daily budget of circulars, sending out monthly bills, and telling
pained-looking callers that the doctor was out just then. Her
salary just about paid her board, with a dollar or two left over
for headache tablets and a vaudeville show now and then. She did
not need much spending money, for her evenings were spent mostly
in crying over certain small garments and a canton-flannel dog
called "Wooh-wooh."
For three months she stayed, too apathetic to seek a better
position. Then the dentist's creditors became suddenly impatient,
and the dentist could not pay his office rent, much less his
office girl. Wherefore Marie found herself looking for work
again, just when spring was opening all the fruit blossoms and
merchants were smilingly telling one another that business was
picking up.
Weinstock-Lubin's big department store gave her desk space in
the mail-order department. Marie's duty it was to open the mail,
check up the orders, and see that enough money was sent, and
start the wheels moving to fill each order--to the
satisfaction of the customer if possible.
At first the work worried her a little.
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