The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-12

at your proposition, Miss Martini he
Ventured at last. ''The idea of enter
ing into a business partnership with
a person of the opposite sex is quite
novel to me. But the world moves,
and we must move with it or suffer
for our immobility. Your qualifica-
lions and resources are such as to
cause me to feel that I would far
rather have you for an ally than a
competitor. Now a word as to my
self. I have here a business which
has grown far beyond the status of a
one-man job. Like yourself. I have
a highly desira BILE clientele. NY books
Will show that the business is healthy
and growing
1.-THE saving in Office rent and
overhead expenses which a consolida-
our advantage" put in Miss Martin
quite true. In fact, the PROPOSE
ton looks good in every way. On my
part I am willing to enter into nego-
tiations with view to effecting a
partnership
talk it over as man to man.
AS man to man. agreed Burroughs
with smile.
The business acumen displayed by
Miss Martin in the ensuing discussion
increase Dicks admiration and re-
spect for her. When they had finished
the Burroughs Martin Advertising
company had come into tentative be-
ing.
In a fortnight the new firm found
itself actively launched, and Bur
roughs soon discovered that the new
member was indeed a Give wire" The
pace she set in getting business was
swift and untiring. To prevent her
from assuming an unjust share of their
burdens. he was compelled TO exert
himself to the limit of his ability. All
his old time illusions concerning mas
cu1ine superiority in the commercial
orld soon vanished. He realized that
no man could he more calm amid the
stress OF daily problems more CHEEKY
in the face of defeat. or more capable
of discovering opportunities in SEEM
ingly arid business wastes than this
partner of his. He also observed that
through it all she retained her dainty
femininity.
contracts and sales in the highways
and byways of the business world. the
partners occupied desks on opposite
sides of the office. There was large
table between them to which they
could turn in their revolving chairs,
and it was at this that their confer
ences took place. Across its broad
surface they planned their strategies,
rejoiced in their successes, and con-
dOled with each other over their de-
feats. At first Burroughs found it diff
ficult always to keep the conversation
within the narrow limits prescribed
by the man to man attitude which his
partner insisted on maintaining, but
as she met each depression by return
ing the discussion to its proper chan
MEL he soon gave up such attempts
At the end of their first year bal
ance sheet was struck. The resultant
figures revealed profits beyond their
expectations. There was much re-
joicing across the big table.
$50 the Burroughs Martin combi-
nation is a substantial success" de-
clared Miss Martin.
1T would be much greater sue
cess, if Dick halted uncertainty.
IF what?"
IF there weren't so much of the
man to man attitude in it, he finished
boldly
Don't spoil everything she
pleaded.
spoil everything." he exclaimed
with a touch of wrath. This man to
man obsession of yours is spelling
everything for me- It's the old case,
Emily, of the maid, the man-and
propinquity. That combination will