The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-11

but 1t did not tremble long. When she
| finished the Job was perfect She went
( over it with the most rigid scrutiny.
She had resolved that no bit OF
work ever should leave her office that
was not perfection. She should. at
least, have a reputation for excellence
OF workmanship.
The man who got that FIRST Job was
pleased until he got the bill. Then no
frowned. "Malam?' he asked, isn't
this pretty steep?"
1T is the price for the best OF work.
the only kind do" was the reply.
! The man grumbled and said he never
| paid SO much before. Then he paid
the bill.
| In the first month Mrs. Bob made e1-
penses and a little more. In the second
month she did much better. One OF
her patrons this month was the man
who gave the first bit OF work TO her
| Il had a lot OF printing done in an
other establishment" he said, but they
made so many errors and turned out so
poor a job that l came back here"
| Later, when the man expressed sat.
! isfaction over the way she handled his
second order, and declared he would
give all his work to her II she lowered
| her price. she told him her ratio was
based on the best of service and she
believed 1t was fair.
| Customers came and customers went.
lbut her business grew steadily Every
sheet that left her office was scrutinized
first. No error could get by her. Oc-
cssionally clients left her to have their
/ work done by those who charged less
Every one came back in due season.
| Within four months of r~nting the
Office she had to engage an assistant.
She tried twenty girls before she &C
! cepted the one. Next month she had TO
| have another assistant. The work was
| beginning to come TO her so fast thar
she had to work nights occasionally
| She was getting n reputation for doing
| the highest class of work In her line.
Before the year was out Mrs. Bob
! had to move. She could not get
suite of rooms TO suit her in the old
| building. and. besides. she wanted to
be nearer the centre from which some
big orders were coming-Wall Street.
One day she got a small order from
the greatest bank in America. 1t got
the same attention as other business.
Evidently 1t was satisfactory, for more
work followed 1t. Without solicitation
business also came to her from the Of
flee of the master of finance, the man
who has merged moro railroads, moro
steel mills, more factories and, indus
tries generally than any other ten men
in the world. Somehow the big man
go to know that this woman who did
such excellent work was thorough In
ono other department OF business; that
she took pains to guard the secrets OF
her Office; that any work entrusted to
her would be safeguarded.
The great bank gets out each quar-
ter for select distribution report from
Its trusted agents the world over as
to the state of trade in each and every
section OF the globe. Incidentally this
report contains the most authentic and
most authoritative Information regard.
Ing politics and other developments
likely to have a bearing on money OF
commerce. For years this report was
published by concern of International
prominence. One day the great bank
sent the copy for this elaborate report
to Mrs. Bob. Since then she has print
ed the report each quarter.
Two years and a half after renting
her cubbyhole of an Office Mrs, Bob had
twenty operators working. The selec-
ton and drilling Of these operators
was her hardest task. None but the
most careful, the most accurate and
most trustworthy would suit her. She
paid the highest wage known to her
particular field and exacted the high
est class of work. It got so that the
fact that person had worked for Mrs.
Bob was taken by others as diploma.
AS Mrs. Bob climbed the ladder OF
success. Mr.. Bob remained stationary
or dropped back q rung. He departed
from the multiform concern to try an
other specially line, and then drifted
from that to another and then to an
other He was the same kindly. CHEEKY
delightful Bob as Of old, and he had
come to be intensely proud of his clever
wife. even II he sometimes wished she
was not in business. He was conscious
Of his own fallings and did not spare
himself In selt-denunciation when he
fell from grace: but his wife never had
an unkind word for him and never was
more devoted than when he was down.
cast
Mr.. Bob was having reason for being
doWncast. He was finding 1t difficult
to get work, or at least work thai
brought a good return. He had lost
caste. for he was not considered de /!
penda BILE, Two weeks of idleness thar
were made unpleasant by refusals o.
work in lines he formerly would no
him to bitter realization Of his posi-
ton. Scarcity of money. too. embar
raised him. His wife had plenty, buA
he was too proud to borrow from her.
Ono evening after dinner he told heE
he was ging to take the first Job that
was offered to him. He was becoming
distracted. he said. by the long-can-
tinued idleness.
Bob" said Mrs. Bob, III I were
you I wouldn't take any job thai
Keeps you outside. Your trouble iH
due to your good nature You should
give UP the selling field, There Is too
much conviviality connected with It
You ought to try to get office work"
Bob never had done anything but
sell stuff. but he knew what his wife
said was true.
.I'll look for an Office Job, he said,
'"and II you hear Of anything try to
fix 1t for me. Don't worry, won't
give you cause to regret IT."
The next night Mrs. Bob was quite
excited when she met her husband.
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