The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-04-26
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| Next comes the man who Cooks on the
4 Wine when 1t is red When he takes :
are apt TO get your wages raised. ane
| when he adds a little more he is ugly, anc
! you are liable to ger turned of-iike u
gas Jet. He sits down. dictates for fiyt
minutes, and then says
ana going out to see a man; I'll bt
back IN a minute; work is accommodating
time is pressing, but he stays away
twenty minutes. then comes back and fol
the next haif-nour you take dictation, TO-
gether with the fumes OF beer, limb urges
and bologna.
Theu comes the man who wants you ID
give rule or reason for everything IN
der the heavens--just as IL woman ever
did know anything aboutrules or reasons.
he nags you and irritates you and tries
you beYond endurance. He wants &c
know the reason you did this, or the rea-
son you did that, and IL you can give q
rule for using that adverb or that caDi tal,
ana at last You say that you don't know
aay rule but the golden rule, he doesn't
even see application, and yon sit down
with sigh at the stupidity of men III
general.
Then the man who is struck on "gemi-
colons" swoops down upon you. lie
doesn't cars continental for paragraph
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a picayune for a PERIOD parenthesis and
commas are beneath his notice, but he
says ''semi-colon" at regular intervals,
and, what is worse, he remembers the III
all, and If yoH dare to leave ont any you
may be told to go up aud settle with the
cashier.
Then comes the ideal dictator, the
charming fellow who says:--"W Will you
take some letters now please2'' draws
out the shelf of his desk for your books,
pulls up the chair for you. and il he has
to correct you, does it so kindly that you
feel that whether YOU are a lady or not he
is gentleman. He dictates slowly enough
SO YOU can get every word, uses such per-
feet language that IL is u pleasure to take
1t down, never says word about pune
tuation or capitalization, BUT leaves that
TO your good sense and Judgment, never
annoys you or makes you nervous-antl
the consequence is that you do and can do
better work for him than anybody else
and chen the man who knows everything
the man who goes ont to see man, the
man who is struck on semi-colons, and the
man who wants to know why all the time,
says it is because you are snIitten with
him that you do his work best.
There are others. The man who die
tates about six o'clock. He goes on about
ten minutes, and then the girls from tn g
workroonls upstairs begin to file out. He
looks, hesitates, stops. and the letter is
forgotten. You sharpen your pencil,
strike some Of the keys, cough, and try
other methods of attracting his atten ton,
but it is no use. There are the girls and
everything else is oblivion At length
the door closes after the last one, and
with sigh Of regret he turns to you an d
asks with very rising infection in his
voice.
Where was ?'
Last comes the man who dictates with
A CIGAR side of hia orfi
speaks very indisuinctiy ANYHOW, aud
when you stop him to say mildly, II didn't
quite catch that last word. piease,n he
glances at you q moment In surprise, then
q look OF intelligence fits across his bald
headed brow, and he Says
oh, see. You are-what you call it 7
deaf already Pr Chicago Tribune.