The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-17
THROWN OUT OF JOB
HOW A DISCHARGE AFFECTS DIFF
FERENT MEN IN A BIG CITY.

Heroic Struggle of joe" Who 10 bat q
Representative of tho Average Unfor-
tunate Fellow Looking for wOrk-How
Others Take the Sad News.
Joe's envelope said simply:
The house regrets 1t can no longer
offer you employment, but its reasons
do not hinge upon your competency.
and we take occasion to thank you for
good work for US, wishing you well"
Joe thought to hide the message from
John as he passed out-John had worked
at mis- elbows for months-but ne didn't
John followed HIM out and said:
Stout heat, old fellow. You'll have
q better JOB IN week. If can do you
a favor call on me- My turn next,
imagine"
Joe walked the streets for hours, then
went home to his wife and babies not
less surely years Older than when he had
left them in the morning He has fixed
mis- purpose and Will hew to it. He
takes the usual trinkets to the children,
tr1tie of some sort to his wife, and
gives her, as is his rule the weeks earn
ings. Then ne acts for the first time In
his hfe-be romps and carouses with
Flora until she believes he is as much a
child as herself and his wife watches ii
all from her sewing table and wonders
If she was ever as happy In the old
counting days as she Is now
And Joe's heart Is heavy under it all
for he determines that they shall not
know of his bad luck until he has anoth-
or Job. He is hurt, Inundated, repulsed
he feels that the house has clipped him
off because 1t could spare MIN more cas-
lily than any one of the hundred odd 9TH
ers that 1t has retained.
But that little wife sitting there with
her head full Of belief IN me mustn't
know-she must believe me all | seemed
To be-"
WORK AT LAST.
He looks for work ten hours day for
q week and doeSn find it. Saturday he
pawns his watch for a weeks wages and
carries 1t home, telling them that his
watch had been stolen from him, but
that he had clew to the thief and that
few days. He says to himself that fate
stole it from him, but he keeps up the
play bravely and with fortitude answers
the evening queries Of the home ones
about whether they have found the
watch The next two weeks are tided
over by selling the Building and Loan
* Then he borrows another weeks
y of friend.
Every morning he starts Ito work" at
the regular hour. every evening he re-
turns. They go to the theater; they buy
some needed and long promised clothes;
they pay their regular missionary money
and church fees--for Joe is playing o
desperate hand now, but with an insane
sort of GOODNESS. Something asks him
over and over again every day, Where
will it end?" but Joe Just sets his lips a
little harder and don't reply even in
thought.
His encyclopedia goes next. He loans
it to friend down toYn the Office, SO
ne tells them at homie. Joe cant eat
heartily this week He watches his wife
and children's lightheartedness some
thing like brute would do-stoically.
uninoved. He tells Amy to drink his cup
of tea; he has no appetite, and don't want
it Then he Is for the first time in his
life affected with satans specially ex-
ported article of disease-insomnla. He
SITS for hours watching his family as they
sleep, aud Aels heavyweight slowly
settling upo lis brain that he cannot
understand meaning of
Next day he finds another position, and
his wife doesn' I understand why ne gives
way so completely for the first time In
MS hfe and cries like child while tell
ing her of It
OTHER TYPES.
There are Just few Joes IN this world
mot too many.
Clarence Harvey tells his wife about
it as soon as he gets home. He Is sure
he knew the Internal Joo wouldn't hold
out long anyhow. Plenty more, though
you Just have 10 nave little gail, and
next day Clarence has another Job. T.
little less pay, TO be sure. but then. he
argues, its only for 4 week or so-Il
strike better one the fIrst thing you
know You don't down me-not this
year"
Jim Burton. the clerk, loses his job
He pitches into TIE whole family and
tells them that there must % no more
money spent for anything At all I'm
cersiznd. The goodness only knows
when YOU Will get any more from me. so
make this last a. long a. IT will" he
goes down town gets . job. tells them
at nome that re has not yet found one,
and so spends the entire pay for two ]
weeks GA himself. iAe while osfensibly
searching for vc.k and making ths home
ones p.nch and worry wTth the iesseuIue
cash Then a, the critical moment be
Suddenly finds HOrk. and tells them |
ne mad 10 take u AZ seven dollars = week |
or nothing waea ne really receives |
twelve JImInies friends down tcwu !
call MIN smooth.
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