The Press., 1909-07-07

'IhatS what call some pacKage, cried Hosmer. proudly as he held aloft round metal package decorated with a smiling face which was sandwiched between the legend You can smile-if you use Dentola"
 Tt is pretty" conceded the head of the firm as he took the can into his hands and inspected 1t more carefully. "Some actress, isn't 1t? Her face seems familiar"
 "ActreSs nothing" was the contemp- tuous retort. Hosmer could afford to be flippant when he scored a success. '"That's the little typewriter over in the shipping room. I caught her smil- ing like that one day, and 1t made hit with me. invented the powder to go with it. It's the old 'Saponica,' with little carmine put in to make 1t look different. tell you, MT. Powers, in a week that Dentola girl will be known all over the country, and the sales-well, I'll be around for a raise in salary in about five weeks"
 Powers smiled and nodded. Hosmer had regular scale of self praise. When he suggested that the firm owed him hat for an idea 1t was only an ordinary hit The hint that he lunched about o'clock was a sign that he had greater confidence in an idea. Tine last time that Hosmer had announced that he was worth raise in salary was when he had introduced "sun- burn cream" which eventually had 1 brought the cosmetic company very nearly a quarter million.
 Dentola seemed destined to enjoy a more permanent success. Within two months the Dentola girl smiled upon 1 the entire nation. Even in the tiny hamlets Dentola placards adorned the general stores.
 The Dentola girl smiled life size upon the city throngs, and more than life size she beamed at train tired travellers along the trunk lines. Vaughn, the head of the shipping de partment, was rather veXed over the incident. He had supposed that the picture was merely to be used to deco rate the cans of powder.
 It became something of a nuisance | when visitors to the model factory of the cosmetic company insisted upon seeing the original of Miss Dentola." Vaughn, reSentful of the admlring glances of the masculine visitors, pro- tested to Hosmer.
 "It's all q part of the campaign" de clared the sales expert, with laugh. Miss Dentola is the best saleswoman that ever was. We sold more than a million boxes last month, and the or ders are still piling in. l tell you. Hen, 1t pays to advertise when you adyer- tiSe right"
 Sure" assented Vaughn, "but you're overdOing it. We wanted to sell the tooth powder, not to bring people to the factory to see Miss Dentola. There was a chap in yesterday who said be had seen the pyramids and the Sphinx and the tower of Pisa and all the other show spots of Europe. but he felt he couldn't go back to Montana until he'd seen Miss Dentola. By the way he looked at her I guess he would have liked to take her back to Montana with him. He's only one There's hun dreds. It's all Miss Pryor can do to keep her work up.'' ~
 "I'll take her over in my depart ment," offered Hosmer, with suspicious readiness. Vaughn shook his head.
 "She would have to learn an entire ly new line of work" he objected. "She knows the shipping game now. Let her stay. even if your ads. are a nuisance and worse"
 "But I think she ought to be in my department" urged Hosmer. "It is in the advertising end that people would expect to find her."
 "You get out of here," demanded Vaughn, half in friendliness and half | very much in earnest He had had Minnie Pryor ill his department for more than two years and had given her scarcely look until Hosmer had made her nationally famous.
 When men in Alaska began to send proposals of marriage to the girl, Vaughn began to realize that his as- sistant was decidedly pretty, and as this knowledge came to Hosmer about the same time there ensued a pretty | race for favor.
 Minnie Pryor, finding herself in, de mand for the first time, developed into beauty. So long as she had been merely Minnie Pryor, typist, she had gone her quiet way, but now Joseph Powers, president and practical owner of the corporation, insisted that she be given q royalty on the use of her pie ture, and, though this was but frac- tion of penny per box. the generous use of Autographs enabled her to dress becomingly for the first time in her narrow life.
 With the purchase of better clothes she had seemed to acquire that inde- fnable charm which belongs to the woman who knows herself to be in de mand. She did not develop what Hos. mer was wont to term "big head" but she held herself well, and the apOlo- getic little typist of the shipping room had become t'le belle of the cosmetic company's works.
 Hosmer had his room papered with her pictures and the more he Sow Laem the more deepIy III love with rne original did he sink. Vaughn had but one of the posters in his office, for he did not need them with the girl herself bending her shapely head over the desk by the window, and he, too, was very much in love-
 In the office both men made the best use of their time, but once the closing time arrived Miss Pryor disappeared Early in the campaign Powers had suggested that the liberal use of her face had rendered the girl rather con- spicuous, so the company paid for a carriage that took her to and from her work.
 At first Hosmer had approved the suggestion, but now he went to the other extreme. There was no chance to walk home with Miss Pryor, and his request for permission to call was met with polite negative.
 He and Vaughn could only fight it out during office hours, and when Vaughn objected to Hosmer's contin- ued presence in the shipping depart A.