The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-02-05
CHAPTER XIV.
a stroke of Luck.

Stroke or LUCK.
We come now to the most crowded
day in all the crowded life of Rosalie
LIE Grange. We begin, indeed, with
Rosalie LIE Grange out Of the stage
picture. We are in the Office of the
Thomas w. North Advertising Agency
in lower Fifth Avenue. Tommy North
sits at a cheap but neat desk, brand
new like all the furnishings of that
little old office He is laboring for
an accurate and arresting headline to
proclaim the safety, and yet the dead
Illness, Of new automatic revolver.
At the typewriter desk in the corner
sits Betsy-Barbara Lane, inexpertly
tapping the keys with two fingers OF
her right hand and one, of her left.
And as Betsy-Rarbara smiles trium-
bhantly over this fair line, frowns at
that foul one, purses her lips over the
other hard combination, her radiance
fills and Eliminates the Thomas w.
North Advertising Agency.
From inception to interior furnish
ings, it is all Betsy-Barbara. Hers
green Mission furniture. Hers was
the selection of the pictures, their ar
rangement in relation to the wall
spaces. That it might be pleasant
place for work, she picked out prints
of her favorite pictures-the Countess
Potolka, the Baby Stuart and the
Duchess of Devonshire. To give it a
business air, she added framed Pho
tograpb of the Union Station in st.
Louis. Further, Betsy-Barbara found
the most spectacular specimens of adj
vertising design executed by Thomas
w. North, set them in passe-partouts
with her own hands, and hung them
just where they would invite the eye
and confidence of customers. She re-
membered also the soul needs of Mr..
Thomas w. North himself. In the
interstices of the decorations she
placed such notices as she deemed
best for him, as "Do 1t Now" Indus
try Is Happiness" and, most sig
nificant of all to one who understood
the reason for the Thomas W. North
Agency, tits What You Do After
Business Hours That Gives You Nerv-
GUS Prostitution" Finally, to all these
decorations she had added more and
more frequently of late her own illu-
mined self.
For life, what time she was not
busy with the solace of Constance,
hung heavy nowadays on the capa-
BILE hands of Betsy-Barbara. Just
when she realized that what she need
| ed was work, she found that the CORE
spondence of the Thomas w. North
Agency was getting greater than
! Tommy himself could handle. She
announced at once her intention or
learning the typewriter and doing that
work herself-all for the good of the
enterprise To this proposal, Tommy
entered a protest of conscience; but
the thought that he would see Betsy
Barbara in Office hours as well as out
rendered il very feeble. SO Betsy-Bar-
bara fell to work on the secondhand
typewriter; and she had so far pro-
crossed that she could write pass
ably good business letter in four at
| tempts and a mornings time.
On the scene of brisk business ac-
/ tivity suddenly entered Rosalie LIE
Grange. AS she stepped into the door,
she was large-eyed, serious, a-Quiver
with inner intensity. She broke into
smile. however, as she surveyed the
Thomas w. North Advertising Agency
at work. Both Tommy and his anna
teur stenographer had heard the
steps; but each, as people will do
when they are intent, failed to look
up from his uncompleted line until
startled by Rosalie's:
my! Such pair of little work
ers!"
Tommy grinned.
"Ah, a customer!" he said; bust
ness bad at the boarding house? Any
thing ] can do to advertise you?
recommend our A A Campaign-cheaI