Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-04-19
Mr.. AND MRS. B0WSER.

me that YOU wrote a business let
ter ?"
81 do. ] ordered the magazine
and sent in a years subscription"
"What did you write I"
ooh, in the usual form"
"And chuckod the 81 into the
letter, / suppose y
ayes, Sir"
Dwell, that's about what | should
expect OF you. You'll never see
either money or magazine again"
81 won't? Why !"
"Because, in the first place, it
stood Just as good a chance of go
ing to some machine shop as to a
magazine office, with your style OF
directing an envelope: and because
secondly, if some postoflice official
doesn't steal the mOpey, they will
gobble it at the end of the route
and swear they meyer got it. Mrs.
Bowser, you are as simple as a
child.'
"But 1t may come all right"
eyes, and We may discover a box
of gold in the back yard. There's
but one way to do business"
CLOVIS that ~
"Sce this p. o. money order for
S3S am going to send that to
Boston tomorrow. 1t will go
straighter than a crow, and there
ia 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 mag
azine, Mrs. Bowser
"Not YETI
"I suppose not. When you do
hear please let me know. After
forty or fifty experiences of this
sort , on may learn how to do busi'
ness"
Two days later he asked me
again, and was then able to show
him a letter acknowledging receipt
Of the money, and a copy OF the
magazine.
at seems to have gone through,
he said as he handed the letter
back, "but that was owing to Prov
ideuce. Probably the parties had
heard of me and hesitated to de
fraud YOU far fear I'd raise a row.
"What about the order you SEN
off, Mr.. Bowser y
He jumped out of his chair anC
turned pale and gasped;
"By gum but Pd forgotten
about that | ought TO have haC
acknowledgment three day.
ago.
Cant have been lost, ell I"
"N-nO.r
sit was the only proper way t
do business, wasn't itp
"Of course it was, and OF cours'
1t got there all right. III probabl,
get a letter tomorrow
When the morrow came | aske'
him If he had heard from his OF
der.
"Not exactly" he replied, "bu
| am certain that it got there safe.
"But they ought to acknowledg
it"
"Y.e.s.r
"There is bat one way of dOlni
business, Mr.. Bowser. When
send Oft money | receive an aC
acknowledgement of its arrival. Yo
are sure you sent it|
"Sure | sent it? Do you TAX
me for a lunatic, Mrs. Bowser y
"But it's S? queer"
81 don't see anything so quee
about it. | wrote again two day
ago, and l shall have a letter t
morrow begging my pardon for tn
delay"
A letter arrived next day.
saw by Mr.. Bowser's perturbatio
when he came home that somethin
was wrong, and he finally hande
, me the letter. 1t read
"No pastoffice order has been r.
ceived from you. Please do NJ
try any more chestnuts on u.s."
"But you did send it, l pr
tested.
GOT course did"
b. "Directed your letter all right
} "Certainly."
"Stamped and posted itP
E "Look here, Mrs. Bowser, yo
talk as if | didn't know enough
: get aboard street car and pay m
fare "
"But it's so queer. There is br
one business way of doing buslnes
+ Mr.. Bowser. After forty or fit
. experiences of this sort you ma
learn how to do business"
He glared az me and was too II
suited to reply. lie went to tn
, postoflice and made complaint, an
: for the next two weeks that lost o
, der was the topic Of conversation
= The officials sought to trace ii
letter, and Mr.. BOwser made affid
! Wits to this aud that, and the hui
2 was still gong on when, in dustin
Off his secretary and Btraightenin
= up his loose papers ! found lett
sealed and addressed to the BO