Las Vegas daily optic., 1907-03-30
DIFFER I'm HABITS
CARE OF DESKS sor An ,sDicA-
TON OF AslLITs.
While seme Men Must hase Thinss
Just Sc. Others % Much sHofs
Amid the utaaoss Apparent
C0nfasacn.

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said y man whose business takes him
about more ar la"ss into various sorts
Of offices 4 was in an 0fare sesieT~
day where had occasion Ia Srtte
something"
Here. sit dnwn At my desk, says
the man- ! guess yoa can find - place
there
And did snd place there after
moving one ar tao things. but that
was all fpand-a plac" just big
enough To write In. and that square In
the middle Of the desk
This was a fat top desk and, ex-
cept for that small. bare spot In the
middle, IL vas just covered with ia,
pers and things Hf every description.
and these not folded ar stacked os set
up about In any orderly manner. hut
all apparently In the utmost confusion.
The desk looked as though its
owner. when he hal got through with
a document or bill. Just pushed IL back
from the bare Sput on the desk And
30 he had stun piled up 0n his desk
overlapping and lying around any way
all around the top II his desk. and
actually sloplng down from all around
TO that bare spot like little tiat val,
ley. where be wrote In the center at
the front.
And this was a business man. too.
aaA 4 Waa told man
| who has accumulated a comfortable
property In the pursuit Of his business.
And | found him. In the dealings !
had with him, not only personally ami
able in all things. as Indicated by his
CHEEKY call To use his desk. but fair
and exact In his business ways.
How he ever did business with his
desk Uttered up In that way. how he
ever found anything there that he
wanted, or how he ever remembered
anything | don't see: but as far as
know he never forgot anything that
was important.
1t made me think Of something q
| minister asked me once ! was saying
10 this minister. talking about preach
| ing extemporane0usiy. that ! should
| think when q man got up In the pulpit
to preach without any notes that he'd
be apt to forget some Of the things he
wanted to say, and the minister said
that sometimes you might forget
things In that way. but then he recall
ed what an experienced old clergyman
had said TO him In reply TO the sans
suggestion from himself. which was tt
the effect that the things the preacher
forgot 10 say were usually the thing,
not worth remembering.
And maybe II was so about tho for
gotten things In the pile OF papers oil
that desk.
But he wasn't the only man hav,
met who kept his desk apparently IL
the greatest disorder. but was never
theless successful; and then I hav'
known plenty of men who went as fa
the other way and who would have {
At unless they could keep everything
on their desks just 50.
THE inkstand must be here and tn
stamp box here. and the pen racl
here; all just so. and kept so: ant
with no litter anywhere. with every
thing free and clear and In order
And I have known men who couldn'
write unless they had their pape
squared Just right. and all that; pre-
else men. who must have everything
Just so before they could get to work
all the very opposite Of the man will
the Uttered desk, who has at least Il
his favor the fact that he doesn'
worry himself over trifles, but keep
on serene through 1t all.
And while I have known men VIII
must have everything just so nea
about their desks, fresh blotters an
clean inkstands and all that, hav
known other men who didn't care
their desks were a foot thick wit
dust, and who only asked that thei
things should not be moved or shifte
about; just simply and only that thei
desks be let alone.
"As a matter of fact there Is 4
these days less and less disorder Il
business methods and more and NOR
system: this In an age Of system"