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1S ly? MANDEL'S SUED BY FORMER EMPLOYE GIRL' SAYS DRAFT CAUSED RHEUMATISM When Merea Murphy went to work for Mandel Bros.' department store at State and Madison streets they put her behind the silk"" petticoat counter. The petticoats were placed right near the door at the corner of Wa bash avenue and Madison street, where the women shoppers could hardly fail to see them and be tempt ed to buy. This arrangement was fine for Mandel Bros. But the counter where Miss Murphy worked was between the street doors and the stairs which led to the basement where the cheap er goods are sold. The doors banged open and shut all day as long as the crowds of shop pers flocked in to buy or out to get the elevated, which has a stairway within fifteen feet of the Wabash ave nue entrance. Between the doors and the base ment there is a draft, and Miss Mur phy was placed just where the breeze struck her, be it damp or cold. She says she stood it some weeks in silence and then complained. Noth ing was done about it, she declares. But in April, 1914, the shop girl grew ill The damp, misty winds of spring whirled in through the doors and struck her, day aftei day. She did not put on her coat, for that is in violation of a general rule of State street. She stood some time, she says, the pains that gradually moved down her tired legs and up her back. One day, however, she was unable to get up in the morning to go to work. Her folks called a doctor to the home at 325 Segal st. He said it was rheumatism and a bad case. According to Att'y C. C. Spencer in the Conway bWg., the girl was an in valid for a year and a half. Her limbs were shrunken in this time and her beauty lost. Whether she ever will be able to work stead ily in the future, he says, is doubtful. So Miss Murphy sued the store for $10,000 through Att'y Spencer. He says the store is liable under the oc cupational disease laws. o o CLUBWOMEN MAKE 'THOROUGH' STUDY OF LUNCHROOM Girls don't go wrong from hunger. Three women of the Political Equality league made this decision after lunching at a department store lunch counter at a cost of from 8 to 13 cents. Mrs. L. Brackett Bishop, who lives at the Chicago Beach hotel, ate a dish a corn beef and cabbage and drank a cup of tea. "I had all a girl needs," she said. Mrs. Jean Wallace Butler squan dered 13 cents on her meaL Miss Mary Campbell bought a bowl of bread and milk and a dish of ice cream for 9 cents and talked of the proteids and carbohydrates which made her meal the most nourishing a girl could buy. It would be interesting to know just what were the proportions of the breakfast the three ladies had before they went to the working girl's lunch, and how soon afterward did they have a regular lunch. o o ALD. BLOCK FILES CHARGES AGAINST CITY FORESTER Jacob H. Prost, ass't sup't of parks and city forester, must face charges of inefficiency, incapacity, careless ness and willful misuse of city prop erty, preferred by Aid. Block, presi dent of the special park commission. It is charged that Prost permitted shrubs and trees belonging to the city to be given away, permitted Fred erick Bergman, teamster, to pay $8 a month rent for 19 months without making accounting to city and hired 13-year-old boy as laborer in viola tion of child labor law. sumMmaammmmmm