The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-09-18
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There was Jail Bird once upon time
in a small town in the state of Iowa.
This j. B. had had all that he wanted,
and it was his firm intention it he ever
! got another chance he would show what
he was made Of. Many other j. BIS
have made similar resolves. After he got
out most everybody gave him the Icy
| Mitt, but finally he Accepted Position
Tor, as some might say, Found a Job
in Factory. He started in at 81 q week,
working with the boys, for Jail birds can
not afford to be either fastidious or fin
icky. They have to take whatever offers.
| So the j. B. started to work.
Now, in every shop or store there is al
ways some one-man, boy or girl-who
knows where Things are.
Ii you set set ten girls at work in a
room, you will find by the third day that
nine of those girls are asking the tenth
| girl these questions:
Is this all right?
| Where is the thread?
What, shall l do next?
I
whether the work is right and where to
find things & what they had better do
next. In one week this tenth girl will be
| on hand little earlier in the morning in
order to lay out the work for the day,
| and at night she will stay little later in.
i order to put things away.
And she will show in various ways that
| she thinks of the work outside of work
, ing hours-between the time she goes
| home at night and the time she returns
J in the morning.
! OF course, the quibbler will here inter-
! pose an objection to the effect that the
probabiliti are that the ten girls will
be equally stupid, and one and all be alb
solutely listless unless inspired by fear
of the Blue Envelope or the coming foot
steps of the Boss. I think, however, that
the objection need not be seriously con-
/, sidered, for the fact is that at least one
person out of ten is not only loyal, but
has goodly grain of executive ability
that can be cultivated through exercise.
Responsibilities gravitate to the person
who can shoulder them, and power flows
to the man who knows how.
/, And it so happened that before the ],
i B. was in that factory a month the boys
were going to him asking him where
kind Of work. they would ask him what
they should do next. And he, knowing
the sequence of the work, would advise
them.
Now, there be employers who fare
Proud and Overbearing. but others there
be who have Common Sense. And it so
happened that the man who owned the
factory where the j. B. worked had q
modicum of Common Sense. Seeing that
the j. 3. knew where things were and
what should be done next and that the
j. b. put the work away at night and
got it out in the morning and planned
things at home and picked things up in
stead of walking over them or kicking
them aside, why the Boss encouraged the
j. b. and Raised his Wages.
So the j. B. evolved into Right Hand
Man. and in time came to know deal
more about the details Of the business
than the Boss. and believe eventually
married the daughter of the Boss, inner
tied his money & became sole owner of
the Factory; but of these things I am
not certain, so do not record them.
But the little incident am about to re-
cord really happened. One day the Boss
coming IN wiirn',aa o,tseet Ut iwIrd c1emau1s.
These girls proceeded to festoon the pill
plant. "Who told you to do that?" de-
manded the Boss.
'sWhy, Mr.. So-and-so," said the girls,
referring to the J. B.
"Did you send those girls away during
working hours after weeds?" asked the
Boss shortly after of the j. B.
Certainly" was the answer. You
see, noticed those particular girls SEEM
ed very white and not very strong and
sort of nervous and worn-they say
they have things tough at home-and i
just thought would try to improve their
compilations and spirits by giving them
a run out in the sunshine"
".Oho You thought they were get
ting Prison Pallor, did you?"
Y ''Yes. you guessed it. I was thinking
d of Prison Pallor"
"And so contrived an excuse to send
the girls on two mile walk out across
the fields?"
eyes"
"Had Prison Pallor yourself, eh?"
"Yes''
Used to look into pocket mirror and
thought it was a Ghostw
Possibly"
"Never saw the blue sky except
through a grating or when walking lock
step across stone paved courtway."
"You have it"
"Well. look here, j. B. Don't stand
around here keeping me from work.
wish t Lord l could find few more j
BIS to help run this shebang. And, say
make little list of the pale, nervous
yellow and scared girls and send then
!, !, out by turn for clematis whenever thu
sun shines. Don't stand around keepin.
me from work. Don't you think hav,
anything to do myself? Go on will
youv'-Philistine.
She Sat Still.
: In one of the public schools of larg
!. | city u-hila the school was in session .