The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-08
AT THE LAST.


From out the heart of dying embers pale
There rise the midnight spectres of sped
Gray, phantoms beck ming from the sound
OF memory and shed tears.
Back from the persisted days stined voices
Above the clamoring gales insistent
AS desolate. with age as seneschal
1 tryst with grief, alone.
In ghostly troups dead dreams around me
The ,mocking torment of hopes unful-
While wraiths Of sins repented pause to
At one whose blood is chilled
But s as 7 wait the call that soon must
The irksome bondage OF this shattered
One face 1 yearn to see when L awake
And long to breathe one name;
To feel the throbbing of a peerless heart
That ceased while yet the world and
For me to mark the barren years depart
That have CROPPED among.
Oh! will she know me for the dauntless
boy
Who wooed her meath June's star-en-
And will her eyes light with the old-time
George +. Marsh. in the New York
Times.
Business Talk.
1t is most difficult to accustom one
self to business brevity. There is
something so meager, almost poverty
stricken, about restricting the CONVEX
sation to the business in hand. 1t does
not seem cordial. And then to stop
just as you have begun to like your
Arrrs to-
one cease to feel that there is some
thing very unsatisfactory about bust
ness methods. The man may be a
busy magnate. but that is no reason
why one should be curt with him. He
is probably father as well and per-
haps a lover of dogs. At any rate,
make an effort to find out. When the
six minutes have passed which it took
To settle the matter you called to see
him about. ask how his children are
skating this winter. There is no need
of being surly just because business has
been touched upon. One can always
say. ''How is your wife's cold?" or
1.-THE price of meat is going up, isn't
it ?'-something folksy and nice.
Even men in swivel chairs must
have a human side, and although one
scowls and barks while business is I'M
der discussion, it being we'll under
stood that this is the way to give the
impression that one is clear headed,
hurried, and keen, when business has
been pushed aside it is so against all
a woman's instincts to leave abruptly.
One wants to settle back and murmur.
What an awful tie you're gearing"
or Don't you think French opera is
being rather overdone?"
When you call a busy woman UP on
the telephone to ask for an appoint
ment at 10 O'Clock and she says and
you say very we'll and she rings off,
do CO rnaII1fa rIu Ia
of cut off in your prime. The ap-
pointment was the only thing you had
to ask her about, but how could she
be sure of that? This ringing off sud-
denly leaves so little margin for the
unexpected. Who can tell if she had
waited you might have thought of
something else to say. And then you
feel perfectly friendly toward the per-
son and though you have not seen her
yet, you rather like her voice. 1t may
be that she likes yours 1t would do
no harm to ask her. but pleasant
amenities are out of the question with
every one ringing off in this choleric
manner.
Try as she will to accustom herself
to the ways of the business world, a
woman continues to feel distressingly
abbreviated, eliminative, condensed,
expurgated. If one is naturally a six
volume novel it is no light matter to
act like a footnote. And very often
one can think of much nicer things to
talk about than the matter in hand.
1t has brought you together. That is
enough; why bother with it further ?
While you were in the outer Office you
evolved a convulsing theory on travel;
why not discuss that? Why this pas
sion for relevancy? 1t hampers one,
it ties one down, and all the time there
| is the disagreeable sensation of being
| pushed from behind. 1t is not at all
soothing. This thinking quickly,
Snea king ollit xiv acting quickly and
always to the point, it will just end in
the business women stopping one day,
turning fiercely about, and addressing
the air behind them with, cav, stop
yer pushin'; there isn't any real hurry.
| AS for us, we have got to be ir-
relevant or bust. New York Evening
Sun.