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Children under 14 may not be employed in any factory, hotel, etc.; but judge of juvenile court may give dispensation to child between 12 and 14. No girl under 16 may be bootblack or sell papers or any other wares publicly. SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS: No suffrage.
What about him?" "Put on your coat and come along. We can talk on the way," he replied, and I went with him to the street, dug little Pete out of the bootblack stand and herded him into the roadster to drive us. Cummings gave the order for North Beach, and as we squirmed through and around congested down-town traffic, headed for the Stockton Street tunnel, I waited for the lawyer to begin.
"Don't want any scarecrows around these Headquarters. We're on dress parade all the time before the people and other soldiers, and must show them how soldiers ought to appear. You'll find a barber-shop and a bootblack around the corner. Make for them at once, and get yourself in shape to represent Headquarters properly."
"Sometimes I do, but it ain't stiddy, and I'd rather have a place." "Why do they advertise to give ten dollars, then?" asked our hero. "They want to get hold of your fifty dollars," said the bootblack. "Them fellers is beats, that's what they are." "What had I better do?" asked Ben, in perplexity. "Go and see 'em, and have a talk.
Truscott's soldier servant, an old cavalryman whose infirmities had made him glad, long since, to exchange the functions of a trooper for those of general messenger, bootblack, and scullion on better pay and rations. He had come in from the rear. He held out a note. "Mrs. Truscott said I was to find you at once, sir."
"They shall carry back to America my farewells!" he said, smiling. "This to Pappas, the bootblack, who is my friend. This to a girl back in America, with eyes behold that darkest blue, my children; so are her eyes! And this black one to my sister, who has lost a child." The first class watched the spray also as it rose to the lip of a glass. Now at last it seemed they would break a record.
You don't black the royal boots and shoes, you merely blue them with a finely perfumed blue paste. Then you shine them neatly and your task is done. You will not be humiliated by becoming a bootblack. You'll be a bootblue." "Oh," said Button-Bright. "I don't see much difference, but perhaps it's a little more respectable." "Yes, the Royal Bootblue is considered a high official in Sky Island.
"She'll eat before she starts back home," he thought, hastening his stride on to Hodges's place, the Ace of Diamonds. "I'll see her at the lunch-counter." Tucked in beside the Ace of Diamonds was a bootblack stand, a crazy, home-made affair with dusty seat. The wielder of the brush and polish was nowhere in evidence.
The bottom of it is paved with the bones of your compatriots. So I could go on indefinitely, but I have already taxed your patience. Briefly then Express no opinions on American subjects, political, social or racial-save in praise. Be polite and ready to talk affably wit everybody; men who speak to you in a railway train, or the bar tender or the bootblack, quite as much as the rest.
The bootblack looked curiously up at him, and he remembered his moosehide moccasins and went away hastily. Hark! The wind-vane must be surely spinning. No; a mere singing in his ears. That was all a mere singing. The ice must have passed the latch by now. More likely the upper hinge was covered. Between the moss-chinked roof-poles, little points of frost began to appear. How slowly they grew!