Evening star., 1915-02-07

Department
ing capacity. Filmville is a lavish
Buyer of the latest models in Type
writers and other appurtenances of
Big Business; but except in moments of pungent
emotion the Stenographer not expected to out
her Machine with needless agility. She draws her pay
for being able to keep with her Correspondence dur
ing the Murder in the Rear of the Office.
This is the critical Test and her final examination
for Diploma is to write a Page from memory while
Bomb Explosion, Fire Scare, and two ordinary Homi
cdes staged in different Corners of the Room If
she finishes the Page without looking up and without
writing it "t-e-h" more than twice, she passes.
No examination in Spelling is required. If she
not through the days Vocabulary without mixing
her Vowels, nobody but her Employer knows it, and he
rarely lasts beyond the third Reel in any When
the Fnvie Broker feels the need of Tragedy two
to vary the monotony he engages graduate of the
Filmville Commercial School, it being a well known
rule that Confidential Clerk will take up Embezzle
ment as a Sdene unless there is competent STEM
ographer in the place to record his post facto sent
ments.
The Stenographers routine, before the Plot
broadsde action consists of looking up from
her Desk find that somebody is attempting to make
love her. Usually it is her Employers Son, hand
Youth who is ostentatiously ostracized by the
Head Bookkeeper for conduct unbecomng an Expert
Accountant.
In these circumstances the Stenographer throws her
self back her Business College training and hands
him her best line of Stall Stuff This sends him quver-
ing the and when he the Cashier apparently
making getaway with the Stenogs facial approval he
registers athletic resolution to rob his Fathers Safe
in order to win the Cashier Front Office frown for
being careless with the Combination.
The time chosen for the fortissimo incident is the
lunch hour, when all the Bookkeepers supposed to
be the neghborng Gorge Parlors But the STEM
ographer has picked this occasion to catch up her
work. and throwing Prize Line of Wrist Action into
the performance when the Bosss Son surprised at his
nefarious task by the Cashier who has lodged back
borrow lunch money from the Profit and Loss Account.
What follows resembles meeting between Zbyszko and
the Terrible Turk.
Most Stenographers would look up inquiringy at this
point but the Graduate of the Fimvile Commercial
School continues to transcribe her Notes till the Epi
sode over, which makes it impossible for her to tell
whether the Cashier slain by the Bosss Family
by Chance Customer who happened to feel ugly
hurry call for Margins.
Luckily her School Training has included instruc-
ton in the quickest method of securing Police attention
the Telephone, and when the Sergeant arrives
with the Riot Squad she is calmly shrieing for help
while sitting the floor holding the Cashiers head in
her lap.
Several Film Feet of rapid-re gesticulation follow
during which the Boss arrives and, after of
visible horror kisses the Stenographer ferventy This
makes it necessary for her. at the Inquest to that
to the best of her knowledge and belief the Boss Son
in Hawaii at the time of the Murder.
The result of the Hearing sufficiently conclusive to
warrant the Boss in marrying the Stenographer, and
another efficiency testimonial goes into the Advertise
ment of the Fmvie Commercial School, When it
happens to be the Boss himself who is hurted into the