Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-12

fectually to give the impression that they.
also, were working All the while the four
men were attacking the tree two men were
engaged In holding cross-cut saw; the
seventh, the boss was seated on the ground
some distance away.
It was a tree whose diameter was per-
haps twelve inches, but II was felled only
after half hours toil-beg your pardon
for letting the last word slip of the
end of my tongue. Anyway. the tree was
at last laid low. and II became the evi-
dent duty OF the sawyers to come out OF
their somnoleat attitude. This they did
after a time. and the next FIVE minutes
was spent In discussing where the first
saving took place. First. the saw was
placed across the trunk just below the low
est branches; eventually II rested about
two feet from the base, and after the bark
had been sawed through the men took
rest Meanwhile. three of the choppers
were seated on the tree. while the fourth
was actually sufficiently concerned In the
future to examine the edge OF his tool.
So the men sawed-and rested-and
sawed-and rested--sawed little and rest
ed a lot. 1t WAS well along in the aft
ernoon before they had sawed the trunk
up to the limbs. Then they retired. the
choppers came up and after awhile the
branches were chopped off. IL was dusk
when the sawyers finished with the upper
part OF the tree. and then, OF course, X
was too late to remove the debris Next
morning the seven men returned with an
eighth. driving horse and wagon, ana
with his help they managed TO have the
knoll cleaned before noon.
II worked hard for six months to get
the job, now I'm going TO loaf Does the
shoe of the loafer fit these men7 II IL
does, there are hundreds more Ike them
on the municipal pay rolls or course, al
the thousands of city employees are not loaf
ers. but what Is the proportion VINO arc
not, can you say?
The Lowest Loafer Of All
Here are the worst Of all citys loafers
E
ers. They're all corner loafers In that
group and they're killing time until the
matinee crowds begin to surge up and down
the street Then they bTazenly stare at
the pretty and attractive girls. and when
these latter have passed into the theateTs
the loafers viii hang about until the streets
are once more filed with beauty.
And away uptown, there is a good Wo-
man for every man. probably, working OF
her fingers TO keep down the household
expenses and to make both ends meet. You
will undoubtedly agree that the man VINO,
with folded hands, sleeps the day away on
park bench is m lch more of man than
he who hang about street corner 10 oSle
at passing women.
Please to make a note of the fact that
none OF this street inspection has been
made around the noon hour, when 1t Is meet
and proper that the places of rest should
be filled with workers gaining WelI-eafn-
ed breathing spell On the other mana, II
that man loating who goes out to lunch at
noon and fingers over his cigar until :
o'clock or later? Men who lunch 50 long
seize the opportunity TO talk business with
their eompanions2 Some do, but as sure
as daylight and darkness, many use TINS
as an excuse to leaf and stuff.
Let us follow this man, who has Just
stepped out OF yolder high-priced restau-
rant back to his office When passed
this way a fun two hours ago he was en-
tering the restaurant. As the boy swung
omen the private office door did you not
behold your man idly lingering an evening
paper and with his feet carelesSly deposited
on the extension leaf of his desk? NheA
he returns home -onight 1t will probably
be to say to his sympathetic helpmset that
he had a very busy day Of II, indeed.
Loafers and Don't Know 1t.
1t is very easy, apparently. for some men
to make themselves really believe that they
are working while all the time they arc
gilded loafers.
Two men-cau them Jones and Smith
have desks not four feet apart in big
publishing office. The other day Jones
turned up a memorandum his desk and
leaned over to Smith.
oh | say Smith, what was 1t We de-
cided about this matter the other week.
Smith took the memorandum and scan
ned IT long.
"Ah, l have IT now" he began. Don't
you recall that L" and he started in TO
elucidate.
ITO be sure-to be sure" exclaimed Jones.
but please write letter about it-Im
deuced busy this morning
In such fashion Jones and Smith, and q
lot more men like them. string out what
little work they do by entering into elabo-
rate and often useless correspondence, and
by other devices taken advantage OF only
by the chronic Ioafer or buffer. A buffer,
as you'll doubteless agree, is a loafer. also,
with desire to POSSESS the respect that
one honest worker always holds for an
other.
Loafers? Surely. the city and not the
town is the paradise of loafers. And II
city would only find way to make every
one of It's thousands of idllng, sturdy sons
do his share of the days work. with what
din-lamplike swiftness its prosperity
and happiness would increased