Woman's Work

Thero are two woman suífrage organizations iu San Francisco, and a Mrs. Wiggin is prominent in one of them. Recently Mrs. Wiggin told her experience in the business of getting married. She chose a woman to do the business, and though some years had passed since then the knot had never slipped. A woman asked sarcastically if the woman knottyer was paid half price for the job, but Mrs. Wiggin, in her indignation ignoring the sex ofher questioner, replied, "No, sir. We paid her $140 for tha work, and' I must say that it, was one of tho best jobs of the kind I have ever seen. The following, by Mrs. Wiggin, is interesting: " I went the other day to buy a roadyniade dress. The male clerk showed me several, and, finally selecting one, I asked him if he would show me the forewoman's room, as I wished to try it on. He replied, ' Well, the forewoman has gone to lunch just now, but' - and here he threw the dress over his arm - ' if you will come with me I will fit it for you.' " What !' says I, you fit rny dress for me f No, sir ! Let moask, do you make it a practice to try on dresses and fit them, and so on T Why, certainly,1 said he : and I must do him justice to say that he had the manliness to blush here. Why a good many of our lady customers won't have anybody but a man to fit their dresses for them.' " Now," continued Mrs. Wiggin, " it is this I Bio contending for ; drive those lazy, effeminate, namby-pamby dry goods clerks out into the street, and give their places to intelligent woinen. The idea of a man in such a position selling garters and oorset-strings, bah !"