The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1909-04-22


off the bundle and set large square
box on her desk. Gladys was gushing
over with CURIOSITY and when she was
told what the box was for she keeled
right over into the Good Looking Young
arms and just gushed all
over his clean shirt front, but he didn't
mind that for he was full of enthusiast
ic genius. But Gladys was dead right
in this last gush, for he had invented
an automatic carrangemen mt to keep stem
ogi aphic notes In. 1t did not matter
what kind of character the stenOg-
rapher wanted, whether it was pot
hook or curve or what-all she had
to do was to jab her gum stretcher in
to the hole in the top of the box and
she was sure to bring out just what she
wanted. 1t was automatic, self-loading
and ball bearing with an alarm attach
m mt. The alarm attachment was to
tell the old woozie who was doing the
debating when to break away and cut
out the moon eyes as his home COM
fort had just got off the elevator and
was headed toward the private Office.
Well, to make short story shorter,
Gladys grabbed that box aud with a
few minutes practice she could do as
much work as ten regular stenogra-
pliers. So the firm raised her pay to
one hundred per, but even at that she
quit within a day or two, for the Good
Looking Young Bookkeeper as piiing
up the rhlno at the rate of a million
week from the profits of his invention.
So the next Saturday p. m. they both
laid off and went to d. ID. and got
fastened up. As soon as Gladys had
the parchment tucked safely away in
her shirt waist she started in to blow
the mazuma like thoroughbred. As
soon as the hectic flush began to sub
side the Good Looking Young Book
4 keeper found tat it was up to him to
get busy and stay busy for Gladys
caused the maZuma to fade like Pan
anna canal being worked at both ends.
1t Was not /, ng until the Good Look
ing Young Bookkeeper had to make
trips to other cities for new customers.
Consequently Gladys was left alone
, Then she began to wonder how the
Good Looking Young Bookkeeper act
, ed when he was showing the gOod-look-
ing female stenographers how to ma
nipulate his patent box. And then she
| commenced to get jealous. She bought
? a pug dog and WHEN she would have a
' jealous spell she would kiss that pug
. dog until he would become dizzy and
b irresponsible. One day while the dog
t was dizzy aud irresponsible he bit
r Gladys and she got the hydrophobla
Q and when tie Good Looking Young
a Bookkeeper came home that night
O Gladys bit him. They both went mad
9 and started down the street together
:. When they came to the draw bridge
some nature faker ope1.ei the draw
. and this made them madder than ever
. So they both juml el into the river and
be cause they were SO darned mad they
d couldn't swim, they were drowned.
= When the coroner's jury held the in.
r quest over the remains of the Good
Looking Young Bookkeeper and
) Gladys they decided to pinch the dark
K complexioned lady who had palmed
F. out the phony wisdom to Gladys, be-
v cause if she hadn't given Gladys this
bum steer Gladys would have muci
! laged on to old man Fox and as he was
70 soon due for a ferry ride, Gladys would
e. have fallen heir to his predatory ant
h conld have chased her own buzz wagoT
: down the white way and wouldn't have
- had time for pug dogs. The Coco
% Looking Young Bookkeeper when ht
u got his pile made could have married
le one of the four hundred to help along
his business Then he could have cop
ped out an affinity from the chorus, anf
y built hunting lodge in the wilderness
d. Or he and Gladys could have accident
D. ly hunted into each other over across
u the pond and done the grand tour to
% gether.
And their names would still appear
q now and then in the "Who's Who" col
10 umns instead of being done in bronz'
on q door in little marble house Ou
IN in the spook forest.
- THE OFFICE Boy.
m The Second Generation Continued)