Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-03-24

NH x typewriter.
ME / think in the time
NIX w. to come when this
Ng EG. shall have become the
" " ~ classic period for the
future centuries. as the ancient Greek
is the classic for us of this time, that
instead of the maiden with the 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 the 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 man was Bllnker-
Hayerhill Blinker. A bachelor of
forty years experience, q business
man OF large and increasing wealth,
calculating speculator, a good all
round fellow, and among women the
very prototype and synonym of bash
fulness. To see him bow and smile to
and at lady when meeting her would
have led the most critical to say he
was 8 courtier of cour.iers, but if it
became necessary for him to go be-
yond 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 ladies'
man.
When he recovered from one Of
these litter attacks he was always sur
rounded by 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 woman's society
was to employ q 'Iady typewriter,
and then he did it because relative
of his, his aunt, in fact, in neigh
boring town, had asked him as spec
ial favor to help the daughter OF an
old school friend OF hers, in sore dis
tress, who was quite skilled stenog-
rapher and typewriter.
1t wss entirely beyond the compre-
hensibllity of Mr.. Bl1nker's aunt that
Mr.. Blinker would give her employ
ment, but the aunt thought he might
know someone who had place for her.
Therefore, when he wrote to his aunt
saying that he would give the young
woman 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 IL 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 waite'l,
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 M. Blinker finally appeared,
and the Office boy and the clerk col
lapsed, he hadn't the least idea who
she was, and his heart began to pound
80 on the inside of him that he
thought it was the janltor 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 q
woman in his Office, and the experience
was so entirely novel that for an in
slant he was speechless.
sis this Mr.. Blinker ?" she inquired,
rising to meet him as he came hesi-
tatingly toward her,
ss9es'm," responded Mr.. Blinker,
as if he were schoolboy about to be
licked for pasting wet wad on the
wall. "May I inquire to what am
indebted for the honor of this visit,
ma'am?"
Blinker would no more have made
such an egregionsly silly and stilted
speech as that to man than he would
have tried to have told the truth in
Chicago, but this was woman, and
Blinker was not RESPONSIBLE.
''Your aunt" said the visitor, with
o roguish twinkle in her eye, but
Blinker didn't see it any more than ne
saw profit in honest politics.
'I-I-beg your pardon, ma'am,"
he stammered
The..very idea OF his say ing "Ma'am,"
to girl like that! 1t would have
been criminal if Mr.. Blirlker had been
responsible.
Then she told him who she was, and
the way Mr.. Bl1nker began to assume
airs and strut around as if he were a
mighty potentate with lot of sub
jects was as funny as it could be.
Now she had been with him six
months, and he sat near her debating
letter.