The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-18
worry the life and sosl out u me until /
get II fmishcdl

Set II fmiohed!
OLD FELLOWS WANT TO FLINT.
But, then. al Of these men are perfect
saints to ths cElsng old scn&lemcn who al
ways want TO nirt with the hotel type
writer girl and who almost bankrupt them
selves getting unnecessary work done
solely for the purpose OF siutiug beside the
operator and making foolish old eyes at
her and saying SILLY things to her that halt
the time she doesn't hear al all. Well, Of
ell the old stiles. There was one Of 'em
here last week. He was q perfectly lovely
looking old gentleman with white beard
and groomM and nice, and when he came
In thought what fur Il must be for his
big household OF daughters to tease him
and pull him around and maui him about,
and-well yes, KISS him. II you Will.
didnt know that he had any daughters,
you understand. ana don't know yet but
DE certainly was the last old gentleman on
earth that ! should ever have picked out
as belonging TO the flirty kind.
Well do YOU know that he hadn't been
uictating TO nfe five minutes before he
leaned over In a kindof languishing way
and said, Won't You please do this page
over again. little blue eyes 2 Knocked down
with fcathcr7 Well, And It made me
mighty angry for second. too. So turned
upon him pretty swiftly. and said:
II your own sight were not so badly
dimmed by age. cir. you could sec that my
eyes are not blue, but green
thought that surely would finish him!
But did Il?
$50 much the better tho old sinner
replied like fash, and still languishinE:
so is the sea In certain lights, and what
Is more beautiful than the seal,
Of course then. silenced him cffec.u-
ally; but only mention this to show the
way the thing goes And once In while
the young men want to ret flrtatlouc, too.
why does any sane man deliberately set
To work to make himself loathsome?
They'll watch our hands, apparently with
the most profound and inexpreseble ad-
miration. while we arc hammcrlng away at
the keys, ANA then tell us that our fingers
nave the taper Of those OF the women of
the Medici---whoever the women OF the
Medici may have been. but don't iemem-
Der that they were very n,co-and that our
wrists have the curve Of the wrists OF tho
Madonnas OF the old masters and oh. all
such unutterable twaddle The only way
TO do Is 10 30 right on working. paving no
attention whatever 20 all OF this poor fol-
de-rol that wouldn't fool an infant In
arms. now would It?
SOME DEADBEATS. TOO.
And. then. the frauds, You wouldn't
believe how many men get work done by
no ell typewriter girls and sneak off with
out paying them. II seemed almost In
credible, this. when | first began to be a
public typewriter, and that was larger
number Of yenrs ago than I am gorg to
say anything about; but ,he amount OF
good hard earned money that have never
seen the color of Is simply draadtul--and
done out OF IT, toe, by men WHO seemed
Just as plausible as anything IL life An
odd thing I've noticed Is that n great ma
| jority OF the men who have quietly left
without paying me bills have hai Very
lordly. imperious way Of carrying theiA
selves in the letters they dictated -bccg,use
they were shums. | suppose. And by the
letters some OF them have dicta,ed you
would actually think that they vote daily
In tho habit Of handling millions, There
was Il man here from Boston not long ago
who spent good half day debating long
business letters 10 ME. and whoa he got
through he said: Just wait TIL step up
to the desk and get this check casaed, aud
I'll pay you l haven seen him since.
He had really been stopping IT tho hotel,
but he had made all Of his preparations
for leaving before he started TO working
off his correspondence, with me as the We
tim!
HOW TO CORRECT MISTAKES.
Some men are pretty nice about your
gently correcting them when they make
some horrible grammatical break In die
lullUb, puN OlHtlb btN ltioNloAo NpOue ~,
and snap their teeth, and snarl. You heard
what said suppose madameg' AMI carry
on In that fashion. On the whole, my ox-
perience at this business has Taught me
that the best way, when man makes a
break, Is net to correct him by aori Of
mouth, but to get the thing rislt, and tie
man debating never knows The difference.
But some others do know the difference!
There was a man from Chicago, Fork
packer, or something like that, think,
who persisted In debating his lTters to
me, In using tho double negative. did
not let on that l noticed II. He would
dictate, for instance, i don't know nothing
about this matter You can just see how
horrible that sounds TO speak 1t, but 10
SEQ 1t in typewriter letters--g raoious'
Well ! OF course changed It all the way
through When he came back for the let
tiers, ! saw his face grow black when he
read the first one. Then he came mp to me
like a genuine thunder cloud.
MADAME said he TO me. j pay yoi
to write rs ] talk. not as you want me 10
talk. The way / talks good enodgh for
me, and you can oblige me leap herc--
after by putting down them words tbat
say, right or wrong. or you'n me won get
along!" -,
"Oh, yes. men are such = reasonable iot!'
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