The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-26

has become part of the plan of saliva tion, the office boy comes in for his share of the former, and a good share of his wages goes to purchase boxing gloves, sweaters, clubs, paily, and, of course, wheel. When the country cousin of the city boy who is in busi- ness comes to visit the latter, he does not, as formerly, reVel in soda water, ice cream, and the merry -go-round and strolls in the park. The city cousin spells all that, and when the country cousin returns to the cowpath he is usually weary.
 There Is a noticeable change in the office boys mannerisms about the place where he is engaged In the be- ginning of his engagement he ap- preached his employer with fear and trembling, albeit with courtesy, and announced himself or others with marked conVentionality. If he had the job of announcing callers he was an example of good breeding in that.
 Now the visitor awaits the pleasure of the office boy, and when the boy has occasion to see his employer or the boss" as his employer has come to be 
 express his opinion in advance. In a busy city like Chicago. where business men accustom themselves intuttively to express themselves briefly, the CX- ample is taken up by the office boy when he Is approached by the visitor to the office. Lack of judgment In the boy makes his brevity vexati9us and seemingly impertinent, but he is in business now, and that's "the way the boss talks"
 The time comes in the history of this office boy, long before he has the ma turity of years. when he is authority in the office on the records of the turf, the ring and the wheel, and if you should stop him suddenly in the street and ask
 him for closing quotations on grain and leading stocks, he would give you
 the information in a twinkling.
 He would consider that he had fallen
 into dlsuse if he stopped an electric or cable car for the purpose of getting on
 or off the same. He jumps on to them
 and from them with the agility of a
 monkey when they are at the full of their speed. And this spirit of push is
 carried and exemplified by him in the crowd at a convention, a gathering, or in the street. He may not be a fool but he rushes in where a calculating
 man would fear to tread.
 He is ubiquitous in this city. The merchant, the lawyer, the factory man the railroad company-all have an of- l flee boy. Women are in the marts ot trade and at the typewriter, but they are women. The office boy is every where. You cannot avoid him. Half of the detail of the business of the city | is done by him. He is well-nigh indis- pensable. It will not do to ignore him | for he will be one of the leaders before 1 you know 1t. There Is a boy in a bank | on Washington street who is the alter ego of the president of that concern | There is another one in the office of one of the biggest concerns of the world in it's line, on La Sale street | who guards the approach that leads to the office of the ''boss." And you can not see the "boss" unless the boy says | so. G
 The business of the world used to be transacted by men who learned the business after they were past twenty one years. It is not the case now
 When the office boy finds time to edu- cate himself is a mystery. But that does not seem to annoy him.