Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-01


it in. l washed my hands in the wash
room and left the report there.
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'Manfully restraining myself l told him
to go to the Mushroom and get the re-
port Shortly he returned with the re-
port minus two pages, both Of vital i'm
portance
What on earth did you do with those
two pages? 1 shrieked.
The boy looked at me pityingly.
Why, there wasn't any towel in the
ROOM he explained, and 1 had to have
something TO wipe my hands on, so L
used
Get out before | slay YOU. shouted.
He got. Later by dint of great effort
obtained the missing pages. one of
which was a bulletin of national import
ance. Since that time the office boy has
been siding around. cycling me sadly. as
if my brutal disposition We're reproach
to civilization. But, by George, I'm going
to fire him if
And pulling his hat down over his ears
the manager laced toward his Office. An
hour later the Searcher After Light met
a man from the Office of the manager.
Has your Office boy been fired?" asked
the Searcher.
No said the other man. surprised.
what made you think the manager
wou fire him? He came in ye.ied for
the boy and then sent him out to buy
some cigars.
This t: ait is the key to the Office boys
strength. The average man hates to
think of himself as brutal bully. The
office boy knows this. and the moment
when the man has keyed himself up to
the firing point the boy suddenly becomes
a pattern of good manners and efficiency
and his employer let's him stay. All
the Searcher After Light attested this
fact.
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While the Searcher was wandering
around he came upon young and en-
terprising dentist who had the outward
appearance of a man about to turn
ana: chist His eyes cleaned. His hair
when he removed his hat and mopped his
perspiring brow was mussed and tangled.
He was wrought up.
What seems to be the trOuble?" de-
manded the Searcher.
Office boy" beloved the dentist, of
flee boy. office bOy!'
Strange" murmured the Searcher
"Barbarousi' choked the dentist
Go on, said the Searcher
Il had a client" said the dentist who
was helping me in my profession. i had
always given satisfaction-that is until
! hired flapdoodled ding donged office
boy.
''The other afternoon the client came in.
I had gone to the club for a game of
golf. telling the boy that if any one came
in | should be notified at once. Ny client
told the boy that he had a toothache.
1T seems to me that any boy with
grain of intelligence would have stepped
10 the telephone. called me and had the
thing done properly. This office boy, how
ever. had ideas
Would you like TO wait for the doctor
or be treated at once? he asked.
Of course the poor man, suffering in
tensely from the tooth, said lie would
prefer instant treatment.
But for heavens sake be careful he
urged.
THE boy was about careful as a
baggage smasher. He pushed my suffer
ing client in chair, picked up the first
pair of forceps handy, had the aching
tooth pointed out to him and then began
to yank. The first pull settled every
thing.
Next morning I was treating a nervous
old lady when this man came galloping
i'm with his face tied in red cloth and his
temper draped in the same material.
You're a fine dentist, he began
didn't like the way he said it and his
next remark convinced me that he didn't
mean it.
"'You ought to be arrested for having
bull-headed assistant like that one of
yours to wait on people, he said. This
Job you did on me is disgrace to the
American nation
II tried to explain that / had no as
sistant. Finally I began TO understand
that the Office boy had operated on him.
l called the boy.
"'George,' said did you try TO pull
tooth?'
Sure he said, proudly, AN I pulled
it, too
YOU'RE a liar!' yelled my client, jump
ing up and down. You pulled my gums
"Of course / had to do the whole job
over again The how had broken off the