Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1900-02-16
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Business Man Adopts a Modern Plan for
Remembering Things.

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list price or some other picturesque
detail Of the higher finance made il
imperative on him to visit the city,
even though it was the holiday season.
1t must have been business Of the ut
most importance, for even the conf
dental stenographer had been dis
missed. Whatever it may have been,
there was at least the evidence of ci-
gars and hearty laughter to prove
that it had been transacted to 1.-THE sat
isfaction of both. After that had
been settled the head of the firm
preached the subject of entertain
ment The customer was perfectly
willing to take in a show that very
evening and all the rest Of the good
things that might come his way, and
it was the privilege Of the resident
business man to send out to reserve
seats.
"I'u show you a wrinkle that may
be new to you, he said, with CONNER
cial pride. 'FYou don't suppose that
we pay box office prices or spec
ulators' premiums when it is possible
to get just as good seats as there are
in the house at 80 off? Just Won
wait while l telephone, and you'll see.
I'll find the man in just a minute
That's the advantage Of carrying sys-
tenn into everything you do. Just
look at this arrangement. / guess
it's got in it pretty nearly everything
| want to know Suppose I have an
idea some day, Well, 1 jot down
memorandum on any piece of paper
that comes handy, and when l have
leisure l file it away under its proper
head in this system. Then when /
want to use that idea all have to do
is to turn to it right here and find it
at once along with everything else /
know on the subject. Just you watch
me. In this case the subject is the
alter tickets, and where can | get them
at bargain? There's where the sys-
tenn of keeping track Of things comes
in. You observe I open the ID drawer
and turn at once to the Dre's. It's
just like looking anything up in the
encyclopedia. There, I've got just
the man ! want, telephone number
and all, and I can promise you the
tickets will be here as soon as we
get back from lunch. That's where
system comes in. You bet it's great"
"That's all very fine" replied the
customer, "and l won't dispute the
value of having system. But I'll be
hanged if l can understand why you
turn up the Dre's' in order to find
out where to scalp the theaters. Those
letters are not the beginning of the
mans name that you have just called,
and they do not spell anything that
will make you think Of the show
Why DreF"
"Why, man alive, that's just where
the beauty and the simplicity of the
scheme comes in. Iwant to get good
seats at any theater without paying
too much for the tickets, so I look up
the compartment Dressmaker' in
this arrangement and find the infor-
nation Immediately"
"But why dressmaker? What has
that to do with the subjeot?"
"See here, you're mighty partition
lar, seeing it's my system, and not
yours, but I don't mind showing you
that the old man is right after all.
The way | first got on to this theater
scheme was this: My wife told me
that her dressmaker told her that she
knew cigar dealer who always had
good seats to dispose Of for reason
able discount Got that straight and
plain? Now, you don't suppose I'd
put that under w just because my
wife told me? a mans wife tells him
SO many things chat il he was to start
system of This cold storage on them
the W would be the whole thing and
there wouldn't be any room for all
the rest Of the alphabet SoIskip the
wife and nail the dressmaker as com
ing next. Then all have to do when
| want tickets is to think Of my wife's
dressmaker, and there the whole
story is told But the more use this
system the more l wonder how we
ever did business when a man had to
remember things just any old way--
indeed ! do."-N Y Sun