Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-09-01
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Haven't seer him for six months,
either"
So it went through the entire list:
then the cousin asked:
Don't you keep in touch with them
any more?"
NO" was the reply, Il don't. Why
should /? They can't be OF any service
TO me. / made it a point when l came
here to know and associate only with
people who will be useful to me-
Graft?
This same Smith decided that he
would spend the summer months at the
seashore.
You see," he explained 10 his cou-
sin. lit will not be so expensive as it
may seem at first blush. / kno a lot
of swell girls down there whose fathers
have cottages, so I'll just tax a room
at some bachelor hotel, get my break
fasts at the restaurants-eggs and rolls
and coffee won't cost much-and for
most of my dinners I'll get myself in
vited to their homes by the girls /
know"
Graft?
Said a young man two years out OF
college-a brokers' clerk and something
of q society chap-to his chum:
She's a good girl to know. Fathers
got Wads of money. Gives her all sorts
of %turnouts. Two afternoons last week
she called up and wanted TO know il
ia like to go out driving with her. OF
course, i. was delighted. Takes me out
to her golf club, too, and the Country
club every once in a while. Meet a lot
of influential people through her.
Maybe some of them will be of benefit
to me some time. But Just now I'm
having a jolly good time driving behind
tandems and pairs and meeting people.
Tell you what, she a girl worth know
ing and c~ultivating, AND | intend to
keep in her good graces Why don't
o get acquainted with somebody like
that?"
Graft2
Mrs. Perkins was making a morning
call on her sister, Mrs. Henry who
lives in two room in a nolt-housekeep-
ing apartment house and takes her
meals out. As the hands of the clock
noared 2:30 Mrs. Henry remarked,
naively:
How would you like te drop in on
Mrs. Jones, just around the corner?
It's about her lunch time now, and IL
we go right away / just know she'll ask
us to stay to luncheon, n she always
sets such dear luncheons, and / like
them, oh, a very great deal better than
those they give US at the boarding
house"
Graft?
WltlldID, SdIu tHe gray -DtJluCu
head Of n famous wholesale dry goods
house to his Junior partner, II got a
letter in this mornings mail from
Hawkins saying that ne would be In
town day after tomorrow on a buying
trip. You know what that means.
Hawkins is doing a big business out in
Colorado and his order cannot amount
to less than several thousand dollars.
We've simply got to land him this time
VIZ Yornannhor tho falInxye dawn thu
street carried away the fat of his last
order, and we both agreed at that time
it's largely due to the good time they
showed him.
Now when he comes, I'm going to
turn him over to you. And for good
ness sake, make him comfortable while
he is here. See that he is nicely
located at a good hotel, in a good
room; then stay with him evenings
for company's sake and show him
around a bit. He's particularly fond
Of the theater, and he likes shows with
chorus girls and all that. Make him
feel that we appreciate him and think
he is a good follow. Here's a voucher
for $50, and If o need any more
money, let me know; for we wan TO
land that order in full this time. And
William. perhaps-perhaps. it would be
well to invite him home for dinner n
of the evenings"
Graft?
I'm having a hard time placing any
thing like the usual number of orders
this trip" a travelling man Of twenty
years experience with a first class
house wrote to the president of the
firm. IT'S his way: Blank & Co.
have lately allowed their man on the
same quite SIS a day entertainment
expenses, and he's cutting right into
my best trade, which, / fear, will large
ly desert me IL you, too, o raise the
ante. Confidentially. / thing it's a
d. shame for us to be held up in this
way by a lot OF picayune grafters, but
we want the business, and so what are
we going TO do about it?"
What? Grafters?
MY. son." said a successful lawyer,
settling back In his chair, preparatory
to giving his offspring a bit of fatherly
adivce-"my son, you would do well
to follow my practice OF keeping a box
OF fine imported cigars in my office
desk for the benefit of those callers
who smoke; and nearly every man Is a
smoker these days. A fine cigar will
put any lover of the weed in q good
frame of mind for the discussion of
business. and. besides. it will make him
feel that he is getting something fon
nothing out of o II coming out a
little ahead Of the game"
Something for nothing? And that
something graft?
Two men met on the street.
by the way said the taller, do
you to the other day while going to
lunch?"
Yes"
Done any business with him yet?
He's in our line, 0 Know"
Not yet, but hope to-"
Wen, when you do. don't forget how
you happened to get next to him."
Graft?
"On my last trip west 1 struck a
hotel in Chicago where | was able to
load up with about all the paper | shall
need in writing my next book" laugh
ingly confessed a well known writer of
fiction. Most liberal hotel / ever
saw in the way of writing paper. Send
down for some. and the clerk sends
you back a ream. And did 1 take adj
vantage of il? Well, | came back with
my grip bulglng full"
Graft?
Graft to demand of a famous man
that he send you his autograph, that
you may sell 1T with your collection
later on.
Graft to pull strings for compli-
mentary tickets-for the circus, for tx
ample?
Graft to wear a shirtwaist for a
week. then have IL nicely pressed and
taken back to the store where you
bought it and get your money back be-
cause it doesn't suit?
Graft TO get a friend or an %acquaint-
to secure you al invitation TO
this, that. or the other function at
you yearn to be present?
Graft to haye a professional singer
an elocutionist at a reception as a
guest and then. by constant Emporium
ing, get the talented guest to sing or
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