St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-04-11
A WOMAN CANNOT Do BUSINESS

A WOMAN CANNOT DO BUSINESS.
wanted to send off for a lady's
fashion magazine, and on a dozen
different occasions l begged of Mr..
Bowser to write the letter and send
off the money. He kept promising
and neglecting, man-like, but one
evening he said:
Give me the name of that maya
zine and | will get letter off tomor-
row.
Its gone" answered.
"Who sent it ?"
Il did"
"Humphl Do you mean to tell me
that you wrote business letter?'
4 do | ordered the magazine and
sent in a years subscription"
what did you write?'
"Oh, in the usual form"
and chucked the So into the let
ter suppose :"
Yes, Sir"
"Well, that's about what | should
expect of you You'llne see either
money or magazine again"
Il 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
other end of the route and swear
they never gotit Mrs Bowser, YOU
are as simple as a child"
But it may come out all right"
YES, and we may discover box
of gold in the back yard. There's
but one way to do business.
Elbows that?"
See this p. O. money order for
$3S? [ am going to send that to
Boston tomorrow. 1t will go
Straighter than a crow, and there is
no 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 BowSer?'
Not yet"
Il suppose not. When you do hear
please let me know. After 40 or so
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 q
letter acknowledging receipt of the
money and 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 defraud you for
fear I'd raise 4 row."
What about the order you sent
off, Mr.. Bowser ?"
He jumped out of his chair and
turned pale and gasped:
by gum but I'd forgotten about
that! | ought to have had an ac-
acknowledgement three days ago"
Cant have been lost, eh ?"
"N-no."
"It was the only proper way to do
business, wasn't it ~
"Of course it was, and of course it
got there all right. I'll probably get
q letter tomorrow"
When the morrow came | asked
him if he had heard from his order.
Not exactly" he replied, but [
am certain that it got there safe
but they ought to acknowledge
it,
"Y-e-s."
There is but one way of doing
business, Mr.. Bowser. When | send
off money l receive an acknowledge
ment of it's arrival You are sure
you sent it ~
Sure 1 sent it? Do you take me
for lunatic, Mrs. Bowser?
But it's so queer
Il don't see anything so queer
about it. | wrote again two days
row begging my pardon for the
delay"
A letter arrived next day l 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 us"
But you did send it." l protested.
"Of course | did"
Direct your letter all right ?"
Certainly"
stamped and posted it ?"
Look here, Mrs. Bowser, you talk
as if l didn't know enough to get
aboard street car and pay my fare"
But it's so queer. There is but
one business way of doing business,
Mr.. Bowser After 40 or so expert
ences of this sort you may learn how
to do business
He glared at me and was too in
suited to reply. He went to the post
office 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 afldavits to
this and that, and the hunt was still
going on when, in busting off his sec
rotary and Strengthening up his loose
papers, found a letter, sealed and
addressed to the Boston firm. | had
no doubt it contained the missing
order. l quietly handed it to Mr..
Bowser as he came up to dinner, and