The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1909-04-22
A Stenog's
Romance
How a Dark Complexioned Lady
Caused a Young Stenographer's
Sad Ending.

Caused a Young Stenographer's
Sad Ending.
Gladys Remington sighed as she
hung up her merry widow behind the
door in the office of BarIock, Fox &
Company, for she was tired, dead tired.
During the long hours of the dey be-
fore she had toiled diligently at her
tasks aud during the short hours of the
night following she had tripped the
light fantastic, been more or less tan
gled up in several osculating seances
and had manipulated her chewing gum
back and forth until her shoulder acheG.
Now, Gladys was stenographer and
peacheIeaner, too. She was all to the
good when it came to manipulating
the downstrokes, the upstrokes, the
curves, the ticks and the dots. The
cire'es and the pothooks she was equal
ly long on, but it was on days like this
that Gladys usually felt that she was
intended for something different and
as she sighed the sigh behind the door
she looked over at the Good Looking
Young Bookkeeper and wondered if
he would ever be rich.
This Good Looking Young Book.
keeper heard Gladys sigh and he felt
the look she gave him and the burning
love that had been smouldering in his
bosom for several pay days instantly
burst forth into flame. The fame set
ere to his ambition and he resolved
that Gladys should cut out the weary
sighs and be her own sweet, gushing
self always. For when Gladys gushed
she had the tail end of sprinkling cart
beaten to fraZzle.
On days like this same day Gladys
would often complain of the tedious
ness of connecting the pothooks and
the curves and other characters and
sometimes when she was feeling dead
tired she wouli get them in the wrong
place. Sometime, she would get a
curve where straight line ought to 60
. and sometimes she would stick in a
pothook where circle ought to be-
TO make matters even wOrt she would
sometimes grab one of her own shapeIy
fingers inste ad of pothook and throw
that into her notes. So it was the side
/. comments that Gladys used to make
during these trying times that had sci
: the Good Looking Young Bookkeepel
: to thinking. Then he went in to tht
! Main Squeeze's Office and asked for {
t three days layoff as he was going t.
0 have an operation performed for th'
APPENDICITIS, not having had one per
d formed before.
y While the Good Looking Youn!
t. Bookkt eper was away for three day
> Gladys sighed more than ever and oil
!. Mr.. Fox, who was worth about twenty
q three billions in round numbers, tool
l. this opportunity to urge Gladys strong
u or than ever to cut out the Office worl
II and come and help him spend his SUI
# plus. Vividly did he picture the jo
h wagons, tie sheath gowns, the fizz din
8 ners and the other diversions of tn
3. q preferred. But Gladys was Obdurate
II Although she did not spurn him wit
t. the customary spurn, che gave him t
q understand that his offer had gone t
= = the discard for the time icing. Yo
,r see Gladys was playing hunch. Sh
g. had rect ntly consulted dark complex
q ioned lady who had told her man
- - things about the inside of her hant
If Gladys was playing this hunch ofpho
I'd ney wisdom to the limit. She intende
1t to wait and SEE if the Good Lookin
af a Young Bookkeeper would make goo
+ or turn out to be piker as the Mai
II. Sque eze had intima ed.
ce On the morning of the fourth day i
r. came the Good Looking Young Bool
m keeper, bubbling over with enthusiasm
and big bundle under his arm. No
n. when Gladys saw this big bundle sh
,,s 20 started to gush for she knew somethin
he was about to be pulled off and she We
er dead right too, for the Good Lookin
Young 3ookkeeper pulled the wrapp'