The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1922-05-23
Be Careful What
You Eat During
Your Office Hours

The consuming OF ioous ubiiHs
office hours is calculated to create
pep OF influence. Peptomism is haz-
ardous. This conclusion is estab-
lished by the sad fate Of a young
man, which is related in a letter he
wrote 20 an editor, as follows:
II am a young man, "a years old.
Being Of poor, but honest parents,
/, like many another young Amer
lean, was very anxious 10 succeed
in business. Therefore, when ! ac-
cepted a position with a wholesale
grocery house in a nearby city, |
determined that II ! failed il would
be through no fault Of my own.
The salary TO start was slight, but
was assured by the manager that
there was plenty Of room for adj
vancemont.
Il buckled down 20 work and be-
gan 20 cast about for ways by which
/ could become more valuable 90
the organization and az the same
time. better my fortunes. Natural
Is ! read "a great many periodicals,
and my eye was attracted by GER
tain Of the ads.
"The ones that appealed 20 me
especially were those urging me TO
use certain foods. ETC., since they
were guaranteed 20 give me more
pep and efficiency IN my work. De-
termined not 70 overlook any bet,
and swayed. perhaps. by an unfort-
innate f0ndness for sweets, de-
termined 60 try the things mention
ed.
"Well, i, might not have been 30
bad IL | had confined my eating TO
the dining-room table, but most Of
the ads urged me 20 keep the deli
cacies in my desk and eat them con-
tinuously. One ad, showed, a meet
ing Of a board Of directors. The
most forceful person in the lot was
standing with a paper in his hand
and demanding whether the rest Of
the directors had had their iron for
the day Il urged all business men
20 eat raisins. Another display ss-
sured me that every commercial per-
son Of any importance kept a pack
age II dates in the drawer Of his
desk where they could BE instantly
consulted II he felt fatigue coming
on. Still another page induced ne
70 buy a quantity ~ yeast and made
me eat IL when | could think q
nothing else 90 do. Another COM
pany was kind enough 70 set forth
schedule By which could most
efficiently guide my gum shewing
Though Il was against office rules,
and alluring ad made me smoke Gig
arettes by proving that q business
man who didn't use this particular
brand would completely lose caste.
For the same reason / took 10 APP
plies, chocolate, peanuts, figs, and
Eskimo Pie-kceping them, OF course
filed by system of my o%n IN a
certain top drawer Of my desk.
After about a week of this IN
tcnsive efficiency eating, ! became
suddenly III and had TO leave the Of
flee for home. The doctor SAID u
was acute indigestion and made me
stay in bed for two days.
/ can see now that | might have
averted disaster IL the advertise
mcnts had directed me 10 keep my
pep-producing foods in a lower desk
drawer instead Of an upper. But
IL was not TO be On my return 20
the office | was told that the "Old
Man" wanted 10 see me. The rea-
son he wanted TO see me was to dis
! charge me. II appears that when
| left my office | had a couple Of
Eskimo Pies on file m the top draw
or. During the night the room got
so hot with the windows closed that
the Pies melted and ran down, with
the result that they unvittingiy
cancelled a number II ncn-caneel'
liable contracts that were IN a lower
drawer.
Il ask publicity Of this untoward
occurrence. not because Of the IN
Justice with which have been
treated. but in the hope that il may
prove warning 10 some other
Young man whose chances may be
damaged in a like manner"