The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-04-27
The ROWSER FAMILY.

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write the letter and send off the
money. He kept promising and neg
Letting, man-like, but one evening he
said:
Give me the name of that magazine
ord | will get letter Off tomorrow. :"
ats gone" | answered.
"Who sent it??"
81 did"
"Humph! Do you mean to tell me
that you wrote q business letter."
Il do. ordered the magazine and
sent in years subscription.
"What did you write?"
40, in the usual form"
"And chuckcd the two dollars into
the letter, | SUPPOSED"
Yes, sir"
''Well, that's about what | would ex-
pect of you. You'll never see money
or magazine again"
II won't? Why?"
because, in the first place, it stood
just as good a chance of going to some
machine shop as to magazine Office,
with your style of directing an envelope;
and because, secondly. if some post
Office official doesn't steal the money,
they will gobble it at the end of the
route and swear they never got it. Mrs.
Bowser, you are as simple as a child"
But it may come all right"
eyes, and we may discover box of
gold in the back yard. There's but one
way to do business"
"How's that?'
"See this p. o. money order for $3S?
l am going to send that TO Boston TO-
morrow. 1t will go straighter than q
crow, and there is TO cause for worry.
However, it's useless to try to learn a
woman how to do business
Three or four days went BY, and then
he suddenly inquired:
Have you heard from that maya
zine, Mrs. Bogser?"
Not yet"
81 suppose not, When you do hear
please let me know. After forty or
fifty experiences Of this sort you may
learn how to do business.
Two days later he asked me again.
and | was then able to show him a let
ter acknowledging receipt of the
money, and a copy of the magazine.
1T seems to have gone through"
he said as he handed the letter back,
but that was owing to Providence
Probably the parties had heard of me
and hesitated to deiraud you for fear
I'd raise a row."
What about the order you sent off,
Mr.. Bowser?"
He jumped out of his chair and
turned pale and gasped:
by gum! but id forgotten about
that! | ought to have had an ac-
acknowledgements three days ago"
Cant have been lost, eh?''
"N-no."
1T was the only proper way to do
business, wasn't it?"
.sOf course it was, and of course it
got there all right. I'll probably get
a letter tomorrow"
|
if he had heard from his order.
Not exactly" he replied, "but /
an certain that it got there Safe
'But they ought to acknowledge it. :"
"Y-e-s"
"There is but one way of doing bust
ness, Mr.. Bowser. When | send off
money | receive an acknowledgment
of its arrival. You are sure you sent
it?n
"Sure I sent it? Doyou take me for
a lunatic. Mrs. Bowscr?'
But it's SO queer"
81 don'tsee any thing so queer about
it. | wrote again two days ago, and l
shall have a letter tomorrow begging
my pardon 70: the delay
\ letter arrived next day. saw by
Mr.. Bowser's perturbation when he
came home that something was wrong.
and he finally handed me the letter. 1t
read:
mo post-office order has been re-
ceived from you. Please do not try
any more chestnuts on u.s."
but you did send it," protested.
"Of course did"
directed your letter all right?"
Certainly"
stamped and posted it?'
Look here. Mrs. Bowser, you talk
as if | didn't know enough to get
aboard a street car and pay my fare"
But it's ST. queer. There is but one
business way of doing business, Mr..
Bowser. After forty or fifty expert
snces of this sort you may learn how
TO do business"
He glared at me and was too insulted
too reply. He went to the post-otfice
and made complaint, and for the next
two weeks that lost order was the topic
of conversation. The officials sought
to trace the letter, and Mr.. Bowser
made atfidavits to this and that, and
the hunt was still going on when, in
busting off his secretary and straight
ening up his loose papers, | found a
letter sealed and addressed to the Bos-
ton firm. had no doubt it contained
the missing order. l quietly handed
| it to Mr.. Bowser as he came up to din
ner, and his face turned all colors be-
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