Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-09-11
TAKING HIM DOWN.
How Miss Fosdick, The Young Lazy
typewriter, Prospered In the Employ oil
Poplin & SOMA Good story Well Ioio.

How Miss Fosdick, The Young Lady
| typewriter. Prospered In the Employ OF
Poplin g. soma Good story Well Told.
Smith Gray Dc co.'s Monthly.
"Now, Miss -er-er-er-Miss-'
"Fosdick."
Thanks, very much! Now, Miss
| Fosdick, in commencing your WORK as a
stenographer for the firm OF Poplin d
Son, it is necessary for me TO instruct
you as to your duties. l have charge OF
the houses spondence = entire
charge. My name, Miss Fosdick, Is
Nipple"
"Yes, Mr.. Hipple," the girl replied,
meekly.
SIN the first place." Mr.. Nipple went
on, leaning back IN his chair so as 10 ca
pand his chest to it's utmost capacity,
and twisting the end of his moustache
with both hands as he spoke; "in the
first place, I always insist on my steno-
grabher's taking me down UerbGttm ct
ltterdtin. I suppose you know What
that means. It's Latin, he added, con-
descendingly.
Eyes, sir.
"Well, Miss Fosdick, have had the
houses correspondence in my hands Tor
several years, and both Mr.. Poplins
have come to rely implicitly upon me.
Indeed, l really do not see how this de-
partment could move along without
me-"
The girls gray eyes looked at the In
dispensable clerk with an amused
| twinkle.
II think can say, Miss Fosdick,"
the young man proceeded, as he settled
himself more comfortably in his chair
land | think l can say it without the
slightest egotism or desire to boast,
that have made the letters OF Poplln
& Son famous throughout the business
world as models of English composition
and ornate diction."
The clerk watched the countenance
| of his new assistant closely, TO note Tue
| impression Of MS words.
| Miss Fosdick nodded understandingly
| and smiled. IL was sweet smile, Tor
she could not smile any other sort had
she tried.
"Those are the reasons I always in
sist on absolute accuracy on the parton
my stenographer. l do not permit even
the alteration OF single word, or any
other change whatever. l trust you
apprehend me clearlV?"
quite so, Mr.. Nipple"
"Then we will begin"
| Mabel Fosdick's first days work
was perfectly satisfactory to the hyper
critical correspondence clerk. He found
himself taken down with unvarying ac-
curacy. In the transcribed letters, too,
| the words were spelled all correctly.
| She never struck the wrong character
on her machine-a fault so common
among typewriters, and one which some
times helps to make typewriter COM
munications resemble Egyptian Nero
| glyhics. $50, .
Thanks to Miss Fosdick's skill, Mr..
Nipples specimens Of ornate English
com positions went fourth into the bust
ness world more faultlessly than ever,
and aided in making smooth the rough
places of commercial epistolary COM
nunication.
The firm of Poplin & Son had been
served by masculine typewriter, but
| the style of the correspondence CLERK
lad become too oppressive for him, and
| he had resigned. This was exactly
what Mr.. Nipple wished, for he longed
| for a typewriter with laughing eyes and
golden hair, upon whom to lavish his
| flowers OF language-Such a being as he
had read about in the funny papers. AT
last he found one to suit him, after
much examination of applicants, in the
person of Miss Fosdick.
| Everything went on with apparent
smoothness for about month. The
members OF the firm noted with ap-
proval the modest demeanor OF their
new typewriter, and the other male
! clerks in the establishment envied Hip
pie his pleasant duties.
One day the elder Mr.. Poplin sent for
Miss Fosdick to come into his private
office.
'Sit down, please" he said, when she
| arrived. 81 have here letter from my
friend Mr.. Shaw, OF Shaw IL King, who
saws that recent communication from
this firm contains much irrevelant
matter"
Poplin looked over his glasses at Miss
Fosdick and found her blnshing, with
her eyes cast down. He asked, not I'M
kindly:
did you write letter to that firm
lately?"
Eyes, SIR"
"Then you know its character?"
"Yes, sir"
"What have you to say aboutit?"
81 wrote it down just as Mr.. Nipple
dictated it, SIR"
$50 supposed, after reading it; but
| IL H. not rather unusual to insert in let
| ters extraneous remarks made during
dctation?"
"He has always insisted on being
taken down Verbdttn ct ttterGttm, sir"
the pretty typewriter. went on, with
some confusion; land really, sir, Mr..
Nipple has annoyed nae so much with
his attentions, and has refused to de-
sist, that l felt 1 must do something to
crush him. I'm sorry took the method
l did oughtn't to-Oh, dear, what
shall Ido?"
And Miss Fosdick put her dainty
| cambria handkerchief to her eyes, and
her speech dissolved in tears.
There! there! my dear girl, don't
cry" said Mr.. Popin, soothingly.
He took her hand to assist in the COM
| forting operation, and placed her head
on his fatheriy shoulder. He was not
too old to make mental note Of how
long her lashes lay on her rosy cheeks,
and now dewdrops OF tears oozed
| through them.
"Whatam l doing?" Mabel exclaimed,
/ as she bethought herself OF the picture
which she and Mr.. Poplin would pre-
sent If any one should come into the