The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-11-10
THEIR FRIENDSHIP IS OVER.


- SRS SaAnG 4AAAASs
Both of these young women stenog-
raphers. employed in the same division
In one of the departments, wanted to
20 ON their 30-day vacation on the
same dats, July is, to-wit. Both of
them put in their application on July
10. Neither knew that the other had
put in application for leave beginning
July Is. They have been very great Of
dee pals, indeed, and have tripped up
and down the corridors with their arms
affectionately wrapped about each
others waists and talked solemnly
over their lunches about what dis
sipated. and communicating bunch
the men in the division were, etc.. re-
lates the Washington Post.
When the chief of the division re-
eeived their application for simulta-
neous leave of absence he summoned
them both and thus addressed them:
1T will be necessary for you young
ladies to arrange with each other
which is to go on leave on the 18th. 1t
will be quite out of the question, of
that would leave the division without
stenographer and typewriter, and
the division is much too busy just now
to permit of that"
The two young women stenogra-
piers, bosom friends only some three
minutes previously, glared at each
other.
"But I made application first" they
both said at once.
NO." said the chief, calmly, both
applications reached me. at the same
moment" E
They glared at each other some
more, and the chief began to look as if
he'd hike to be down at Four-Mile Run
ashing for perch.
1T will be imperatively necessary,
owing to the state of my health, for me
to leave on July 49," said one of the
young women, gazing haughtily at the
other.
MY physician impressed upon me
only this morning my absolute need
for rest at once" said the other, re-
turning the naughty gaze, "and saic
that he would not be answerahie for
the consequences if delayed my de-
parture longer than July Is"
The chief twisted around in his chair
and looked as if several weeks of COM
plete solitude would hit him about
right.
"Well," said he, finally, you will
have to settle it among yourselves.
Why not draw lots? That's the way
some of the men do who want to get
away on their annual leaves on the
same date"
The young. women stenographers
tossed their heads and withdrew.
Ten minutes later one of them
called upon the chief and talked it over
with him. He told her that they'd have
to arrange it between themselves. The
| young woman dabbed at the corner of
her eyes with a wad of handkerchief,
but it was no go. The chief said it was
up to the pair of them to fix it. Three
minutes after she withdrew the other
young woman called upon the chief.
Same result. She also wiped away lit
tie dewy formations from the corners
of her eyes, but she didn't get away
with it either. The chief tole her that
she would have to arrange terms with
the other young woman.
And that's the status quo at the
present day end date of writing. They
haven't fixed it up themselves. Neither
of them has gone on leave. They don't
speak to each other. They glare fero-
ciously at each other when they come
face to face, in fact. They don't tread
the cool corridors with their arms
around each others waists any more.
They eat their lunches in opposite COR
ners of the Office. Each of them brings
= nice little bunch of flowers and de-
posits it on the chiefs desk every
morning before he errives, hut the
chief is an old-timer and consequently
wise" to little plays of that sort.
Meanwhile the mercury is Kissing in
the bulb and the nice summertogs that
the two young women had prepared
for their vacations are still unworn,
and soon the autumn winds viii begin
to sigh drearily and the russell leaves
win be playing tag in the cutters.
Peach Marmalade.