The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-09-04
THE BUSY BUSINESS NAN.

age ana Inc result or the busy tread
mill of life is the busy business man
with his net work of complicated bust
ness entanglements that are dragging
him down to premature old age and an
early grave. This Individual is a most
interesting study. There are no other
specimens Of the human kind like him.
He is the quintessence of tremendous
power and vast possibilities. He tow
ers to-day as mighty genius, and to-
morrow he gets a funeral with all the
modern attachments and passing
mention in the press, and others take
his place. Nevertheless, while he
lives and has his being he is busy
man. The old placard, This is my
busy day." is useless thing for him,
for are not all his days busy days. He
gets up in the morning, finds time to
swallow bite or two. and is off for his
Office. He generally manages to read
a portion of the morning paper, and by
the time he has pulled a cigar out of
sight he is ready to look over the
mornings mail. After he has digested
the correspondence ,he turns around
and dictates to his stenographer for a
short time, leaves any number of in
structions about the management of
the business, does lot of talking
through the phones and ascertains
that his chums and associates are still
on deck and so makes arrangements
for the day. By this time it is noon
hour and then he seeks his old familiar
place at the buffet dining room, where
there is happy com bination of mir
rors and mahogany: ebony-hued wait
ers, and the bar tender in his immacu-
lately white coat and apron. There is
an air OF rest and comfort. The graf
ing sounds of the street do not enter,
and indeed there is peace and quiet for
the very busy business man who thus
far in the day has already injected
enough energy into his business to last
until he returns. Along about two
O'Clock this busy individual is found at
his desk again. He is a bit tired and
annoyed with the affairs of the world.
and business detail that goes astray
temporarily gives him a most awful
pain and shock. AS result the stem
ographer, the clerks, the Office boy and
others who may chance to be near, by
feel the shock also, and feel sorry for
the tired out business man with his
burdens and cares. There are few
more letters on his desk by this time
and he goes at them with veng eance
and soon has his mind free of them and
has thrown nine-tenths Of the 1}duty
and burden onto the poor stenographer
who finishes the task. It is now almost
four o'clock and he feels the need of a
little fresh air and tonic and heEpro-
ceeds to get both. By the time he has
got his regular allowance he wends his
way back to his desk and commences
to close up the days business proceed
ings. He has as it were a breathing
spell for few minutes before he must
go home and get ready for another day.
He goes home and maybe he. does not
go home. If he is too busy of course
he stays down town and the phone be-
tween himself and the house commences
to work and message of regret to his
wife is sent over the wire to the effect
that he is too busy to come home for
supper, and husband here most any
old excuse goes. But if he does go
home it is almost as bad as though he
had remained away. The rapidly re-
volving details of very busy business
man have got him in such frame of
mind that he forgets the names of his
children, doesn't know whether the
hired girl is new one or an old one,
though he, may have a rather vivid
recollection that he had met his wife
before. 1t is in this rather unsettled
condition that. he retires late in the
evening and snatches a few hours rest
which places him in shape to pilot his
business through another busy day
with the aid of his stenographer and a
few trustworthy clerks.
The St. Paul Dispatch says in COM
menting on the necessity OF better