Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-27

found at certain hours OF the day at his Of
fee uptown as President of the Broadway
Railroad and downtown as something else.
There are well-known lawyers here who
have two offices and handle wholly differ
ent class of business at each. Interested in
big corporations q live business man often
necessarily has Office hours at the corpora
tion Offices of the respective concerns. This
not only enables him to discharge his mind
of all other branches of his business while
attending to one, but it enables those who
have business with him to transact it with.
out interfering with those who are bent on
something else. The mental strain thus put
upon an active business man soon sends
him to Florida, or some other permanent
resting place, SO that 1t IS doubtful If any.
thing is gained by doubling up in this way.
The matter is interesting, however, as illus
trating the peculiar qualities OF brain power
and training.
has three desks in his Office and handles
three branches of good business, his
clerks, stenographers, etc.. being ir an al
joining room: He never allows any work to
be placed before him during the day that
does not pertain to the particular branch on
which he Is at the time engaged The desk
at which he sits indicates that. He devotes
SO much time to each desk-enough to keep
the work clear. Ii you should happen to
visit him on business he Will Immediately
shift seat to the desk at which this particu-
lar business is transacted. BY this method
he can transact business of two clerks, and
this artifice greatly aids the habit of concen-
tration OF thought on the matter in hand.
Plenty of Barbara Fritchies Left.
Everybody has heard Of Barbara
Fritchie." Barbara was a gray-haired old
girl, who had the bad habit of hanging over
an upper window-sill in q Southern village
and jawing the passers-by, and by reas on
thereof came pretty near getting into fatal
scrape. The story of "Barbara Fritchie''
may OK may not be true, but anybody who
has used the Ninth Avenue elevated at any
time during the day can readily believe that
whittier didn't fracture poetic license in
dealing with tho situation. The number of
9ray-hRired women of robust physique who
hang from upper windows no IN certain tna neigh
has very little to do with it.. An old shawl
NAV be In requisition, but the gray head is
usually bare. There is something in this
that corresponds with the neigh n,elghboriy back
Only women of q certain mature age and
interrogative natures claim this privilege OF
the sex-which embraces the right to per-
sonally ascertain the number ana quality OF
the garments that decorate the neishp boring
clothesline, to note the hour OF the night
the other woman's husband gets home, the
occasional survey of back lots and the inter-
watch Whit is cisT on ah. IN the the
scheme Is very trying from the multiplicity
Of things, but there are apparently plenty OF
stalwart, gray.hafred, overworkeo women
who willingly add 1t to their routlne OF daily
toll. Nor do they all live on Nlnth avenue
Being a Soldier in Time of Peace.
AT the Fifth Avenue the other day I
met a striking character, Captain MacDon-
aid. an expert engineer. anex-army officer
and West Pointer. He also has the right
snap.
II resigned my commission" said he. ITO