The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-03-04

W. think in the time
Kf0e. to come when this
NV (O. shall have become the
Nv classic period for the
future centuries. as the ancient Greek
is the classic for us of this time, that
instead of the maiden with tho distaff
as We have, they will have the maiden
at the typewriter, as one Of the beau
tiful figures that make art everlasting.
Her eyes were SO blue, her cheeks
were SO pink, and truly, her hair must
have been transplanted from the banks
OF the Pactolus whose shifting sands
were crystals OF pure gold.
The man sat near her debating q
letter.
On the window pane next TO the
street were the words "Hurford,
Blinker & Co., Brokers'" and the man
debating was the Blinker of tho firm.
He was also the Hurford and the Co.,
seeing that he had bought out every
body else, including the well-known
name of the firm.
And what q mar was Bllnker-
Haverhill Blinker. A bachelor of
forty years experience, n business
man of large and increasing wealth.
n calculating Spectator, q good all
round fellow, and among women the
very prototype and synonym of bash
fulness. To see him bow and smile to
and at a lady when meeting her would
have led the most critical to say he
was q courtier of courtiers, but if it
became necessary for him to go be.
You'd the bowling and smiling limit.
life had no further charms for Haver-
hill Blinker. Strange to say, too, he
was not always conscious of his weak
ness, and there were times when he
really thought he was quite u ladies'
man.
When he recovered from one Of
these latter attacks he was always snr-
rounded by a large circle of sympa-
thizing friends (male).
Until within six months he had
never been able to persuade himself
that the real and only way to accustom
himself to the use OF q woman's society
was to employ n "lady typewriter"
and thon he did it because q relative
of his, his aunt, in fact, in q neigh.
boring town, had asked him as a spec
ial favor to help the daughter OF an
old school friend of hers, in sore dis.
tress, who was quite n skilled stenog.
rapher and typewriter.
1t was entirely beyond the compre-
hensibIlity of Mr.. Blinker's aunt that
Mr.. Blinker would give her employ
ment, but the aunt thought he might
know someone who had q place for her.
Therefore, when he wrote 10 his aunt
saying that he would give the young
woman n place in his Office at $40 n
month she was more than surprised
she was delighted, and sent the gold
en-haired daughter Of her dear old
school friend right over to her nephew.
The day she made her first appear.
ance Mr.. Blinker was out when she
called about II o'clock, and the Office
boy and the clerk having insisted upon
her remaining for a few minutes until
Mr.. Blinker should return, she sat
down near the window and waited,
never once noting the fact that the
Office boy and the clerk were each put
ting in every moment OF his spare
time watching her and wondering
what the mischief business an angel
right from heaven had with Mr..
Blinker.
When Mr.. Blinker finally appeared,
and the Office boy and the clerk col
lapsed, no hadn't the least idea who
she was, and his heart began to pound
SO on the inside of him that he
thought it IA the ~janitor turning on
more steam and shaking up the radi-
ators in the office and halls. 1t was
the very first time he had ever seen o
woman in his Office, and the experience
was so entirely novel that for an in
slant he was speeches..
'Is this Mr.. Blinker?" she inquired,
rising to meet him as he came hest.
tatingly toward her,
"Yes'm," responded Mr.. Blinker,
as if he were q schoolboy about to pc
licked for FASTING a wet wad on the
wall. "May l inquire to what l am
indebted for the honor OF this visit,
ma'am?"
Blinker would no more have made
such an egregiously silly and stilted
speech as that to a man than he would
have tried to have told the truth in
Chicago, but this vas n woman, and
Blinker was not responsible.
"Your aunt" said the visitor, with
n roguish twinkle in her eve, but
Blinker didn't see it any more than he
saw profit in honest politics.
"1-1-bog your pardon, ma'am,"
he stammered.
The.very idea of his saying "Ma'am,"
to q girl like thatl 1t would have
been criminal if Mr.. Bhnker had been
responsible.
Then she told him who she was, and
the way Mr.. Blinker began to assume
airs and strut around as il no were a
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