The Washington herald., 1907-06-09
QUEER bits OF DlCTATION
Types that Call on Public Steno-
grapherS.
An HOURS Work I'm Telling "My
Dear Lulu What the Tilted
Lover Thought.

Nearly all the public stenographic Of
! fees are owned and run by women. Men
| leave this branch Of commercialism to
women because It is hard work and the
profits are small But the work has some
| compensation. perhaps says the New
/ York Sun. in the number OF queer per
| sons who stray into a public Office.
For instance the young man who
| walked into public Office downtown and
said he wanted 10 dictate a letter to the
machine. An operator was assigned to
him, a young and very pretty girl. He
began, not without first having noted
with an approving glance the youth and
fairness Of his temporary assistant:
My dear Lulu" he began. and then
the operator woke up, for she knew by
experience that this was one Of the funny
/ ones.
/ He dictated steadily for an hour and
uninterruptedly poured out the walls ef
! his wrath upon his dear Lulu. II seemed
that Lulu had Tilted him TO marry some
one poorer. and when he got~through
telling Lulu what he thought OF her for
/ jilting him. anyway. he began to draw
parallels between the gifts and social po-
sition he could offer her and the lack
which marriage with the other man
would mean.
| But he would not have her think that
/ he was pleading 10 be taken back. No, a
thousand times no. He never wished, in
| fact, TO gaze again upon the countenance
of one so fair and yet so false. OF such a
! deceitful, treacherous. Unprincipled he
! nesitated there and asked the pretty op-
| orator If she thought Lulu would feel
| hurt by these epithets. The operator
thought that any girl would be fiattered
because it showed how much he really
cared for her.
| At the end Of an hour he had reached
| his last word and as he took the ten pages
from the operators hand he squeezed her
| fingers and asked IL she were fond Of
violets
Another young man. who is anxious to
be the American Shakespeare. has been a
source Of revenue 20 one public steno-
graphic office for the last six years. He Is
writing a play about Robert Emmet. and
/ he has been writing il for six years
When he first appeared with a bundle Of
closely written manuscript the entire office
| force heaved a sigh. He said ne was IN
| no hurry. however so II was done in slack
moments. with the result that in about a
month he got the finished copy of the
whole play, except the first act, which he
/ had not yet brought In.
| Less than a week later the young play
wright returned. still without the first act,
but with the rest Of the play to be entirely
rewritten.
| At different intervals thereafter he in
variably brought the four acts back to be
| recopiedN Last winter he finally walked
| in with the first act. The girl to whom
the first act was given to copy spread her
| self on the title, Robert Emmett" She
executed all the fancy typewriting stunts
/ she had learned at school
When the author returned shs showed
/ II with a good deal Of pride.
| He stiffened at once. and. taking the
bundle of papers from her. remarked in an
| icy tone: Thank you very much for
naming my play for me; I had not yet
named II myself
| He is still coming back to have the first
act rewritten, but he carefully leaves at
/ home anything which might look like a
| title page