The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-09-29
Miss Drake
Refuses
By JANE OSBORNE.

q ls2l. Dy Mcclure Newspaper syndicate,
When Mrs Turner Joined her bache-
lor son at breakfast he was pretty sure
chat she had come to ask him to 60
on some errand or other for her down
town. Much as she dosed on Jimmy
and great n vas the pride she felt In
his remarkable success in business, she
still held the same notion concerning
what business actually demanded OF
a man that she had had during the
life Of James Turner, Sr. To her there
was always left time in the business
mans busiest day to write business
letters, telephone and 60 on shopping
expeditions for the woman at home.
Jimmy al right in the shopping Sec
tion-wky shouldn't he match the
silk? He had a telephone right on his
desk-wl,y shouldn't he telephone to
the plumber about the roof leaking7
He was SO used to writing letters
why shouldn't he attend to the social
correspondence?
But on this particular morning Mrs.
Turner's commission was a little un-
usual and she approached her son with
something of c%ajolery.
Pm giving that tea this afternoon,
Jimmy dear, and everything seemed to
be coming off splendidly. You prom
Used to get home by five, you know.
Mrs. Standtsh has been making such
a splurge OF late that l must have this
perfection. Now, of course, there is
Hannah in the kitchen, and Alice Is
sending me her Violet to help in the
dining room, and there will be Benson
at the door, with Rita helping up
stairs. but Jane has just told me she
couldn't be. here. It's her regular
afternoon off and she has made some
sort Of date. She has given notice,
anyway, or I should discharge her for
it. And she is so Indispensable in the
pantry. / must have some one with
taste to make the sandwich plates at
tra ctive and put the finishing touches
O n things and keep the rest of, them
from losing their heads. That is why
Jane was Indispensable"
$50 1. am to help in the pantry?"
Jimmy asked as soon as he could find
a chance to interrupt.
"Silly,' said Mrs. Turner, still with
a cabling voice. II was only thinking
that one Of your girls could come and
help out. There seems to be such q
lot of them aud they lever have much
to do" 1T was M of Mrs. Turner's
firm beliefs that any business man
could manage to get along with half
as many stenographers and clerks as
he did, but Jimmy did not dispute her.
There is that nice looking girl that
seems to be your secretary or some
thing" went on Mrs. Turner, too in
tent on her own interests to notice the
look Of annoyance that came on
Jimmy's face at hearing Alice Busby
spoken Of by his mother as she might
have spoken of a bit of Office furni-
ture.
\ "Your idea was to have Miss Busby
come here and help out?" he asked,
then hesitateH a moment, giving time
for an idea to formulate, an idea that
changed his look of annoyance to one
that showed real pleasure in anticipa-
ton. perhaps she might. Of course
it is most unusual to get a young wom-
an of that sort to do that sort Of
thing. She would only do it as a fav-
Of-- .,-
II don't e that at ALL" came back
Mrs. Turner. "She is a working glrl
and you employ her to do what you
want. her to do. There is nothing dis
graceful about this work. I would
give her a big apron to put over her
dress and she would just have to stand
in the pantry seeing that things 60
right; that zone Of the servants get
excited and that the sandwiches don't
look as if they had been thrown on
the plates"
"What time shall she be here?" was
Jimmy's only response.
""Oh, three. Therell be things to do
beforehand" Mrs. Turner called as
Jimmy made his exit from the break
fast room.
Jimmy Turner was not a man Of
many theories and abstract ideas, but
he had formulated one theory that he
usually kept to himself-that was that
the girl in business usually made q
more c%ongenial. all-around companion
us a wife than the girl whom men
such as Jimmy met In society. He
had W. made up his mind that If
he e married 1t would be a girl who
worked in IN Office. OF course such an
Idea as this would have been incom-
p~rehensible to Mrs. Turner, So Jimmy
didn't say anything about it and re-
NAMED a bachelor. OF late, however,
he had given Miss Busby. his secre-
tary, nor than q second thought. He
had found some little satisfaction In
the fact that his mother had called
her q rather nice looking girl" Be-
tween ~conceding that and thinking Of
her as a possible daughter-in-law there
was a long way.
Jimmy preached the subject to Miss
Busby with all the tact he could sum-
mon. Miss Busby's rejoinder left no
Origin of Slang Term "Masher."
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an Americanization. There is some
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