The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-01-15

uNi'ft ~ l'etFs' y fsi' N itiiii, anu
gets til Il rs business. though ii is
simNle waste OF time and postage.
Wien The men receive the letters
they realilo What rubbish they are
and lluch II them nut when they
gel started debating they like the
sound Of their own voices.
"W1y' and She gave her notebook
an angry iling this thing here, |
warrant, has about one page in ten
filled With business that needed to
be transacted The rest is gush and
aftcc,ltion And yet the men pride
themselves on their qnickness and
their lack Of red tape and their abil-
ity TO cope with big situations And
you won't find one man in dozen
who doesn't make superciliOus re-
MARKS about detail and say that he
hasn', time to attend to that that's
what he keeps clerks for.
81 heard Mr.. Brown this morning
tell his wife over the phone that he
simply couldn't get home to her lun-
cheon. he was so busy his desk was
simply piled with work. lie was very
sorry. but business had to come be-
fore pleasure and she'd please make
his excuses to the guests and SO on
all. that rot.
"Well. l expected a busy day when
I heard that and SO I prepared for
rapid dictation. Well. what did ]
get? To one man he wrote that the
matter was on his desk and as soon
as he had time he'd look II over and
write him in detail. which he begged
leave TO trust was satisfactory! And
to another he wrote that business, as
he very likely knew. wasn't what It
might be- and therefore he wouldn't
be able to 20 into the matter. but We
might In some months time per.
haps- with which he trusted he might
sign himself very sincerely, And to
another that he was in doubt as ia
the ACCESSIBILITY of taking out such
and such paper, just AT present, bn'
after due consideration he would
write him further, and he desired
with great gusto. TO subscribe him
self his Obliged friend And so OF
,hrough the whole list Why, there
wasn't a letter that couldn't have
been done away with altogether, LEI
done being put OF until after his
wfo's luncheon
"But all those lotic,s made hin
think he WIS very busy man an,
Two no doubt that he thinks he's i'll
dispensnblo 70 The company.
Some day I'm going TO run off
let of form letters. saving that Il
very sorry. but | haven't yet had tim,
10 look into the matter. hut VIII Wrlt'
further when time permits. thlbk !
makes the men feel good 10 tell poo
lie they are too bnsy TO think. Per
mans il might be we'll for ne 10 offe
my services as thinker for them.
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"They all know that they'll decid'
against whatever matter II Is Tia
keeps pending, lis a hypocfiticai al
'itude, to say the least. They pr"ieh'
10 themselves that they're busy. The
pretend to the man to whom the
write that the matter really interest
them and that they're really going 7
discuss it, and think il over whe
they know they aren't even going 7
look at it again, And they preten
to the company that they're dom
business eight hours day, And the
they'll go home and pretend to thei
wives that they've had hard day.
"Oh, I've known too much OF thef
ever to marry one OF them Marrlag
is purely a confidence game, as Sc
1t, and when you lose confidence
start in without any marriage Is sur
TO be failure
Yes, yes, I'm coming as last as
: CAM She moved toward the doc
Then she turned smiling eounteant