Evening star., 1922-12-03


:,cid test. I've discovered. is getting
.,way with something they've told
YOU 10 lay off from. In that case
the one thing you can depend upon
;Acn to do is to keep on trying 10
how YOU where you're wrong just
when you're beginning to be sure
you're right.
If that sounds complicated We'll
.,ct down TO brass tacks-my max
ing "a go of the Handy Andy Shop
after all my oldest and closest friends
lad warned me it couldn't be done.
oh, yes they were unanimous about
f.. They couldn't have been more so
il they'd been drilled as chorus. I'd
fus.. every cent of the few hundred
dollars I'd made last summer running
- roadside inn. l couldn't spring
arvthins, new on New York. I'd go
l,ruka if ] tried. And, anyway. I'd
ruch better take a job with no risks
and worries.
And look how I'm coming along
with the enterprise, Thirty odd men
working for me at fair wages. and
bringing in more than twice as much.
nn an average. as 1 have to pay 'ena.
Gf course, there's some overhead to
come ont of the gross receipts-rent,
md lighting, and commissions to my
..,lIese hick solicitors. and so on.
I:ut even with everything Of that
Kind taken out you can figure for
, yourself that Trilby May Dodge Is
left sitting pretty. I don't know OF
any line where 1 could pull down as
much salary as 1 pay myself for be-
ing owner and boss Of the Handy
andy outfit Besides. I'm having
whale of a time.
Yet when Barry Platt comes into
,ay basement office he stares sus-
,icious at some of my waiting Andys
md shakes his head. NO place for
:: girl like you, Trilby May" he
:r,iubles, handling a rough lot like
!!,is''
"Referring to my little group of
serious thinkersc" says 1. How fool
I-n. Just because they wear blue de-
:, ms and need a shave and forget to
! I've. their nails nianicured regularly.
con. run away with the notion that
they're ii bad lot. True. some OF them
! ave done time, and most of 'em were
recruited from park benches: but. at
that, I'll bet I'm safer here than 1
would be as secretary In some cloak
and suit Office or It hotel telephone
exchange, or as member of some
rad company. They treat me as
heir lady boss. these Andys do: and,
believe me, II there's any rough stun
nut over here it comes from me-.
* 4 K
-NC'LE NEI4S is another head
I shaker but his objections are diff
J. rent. You're eettin' In kinda deep.
:,ir'r you" he asks. with all this e1-
1,snse rilin' up"
.'Rv which, says /. :" suppose you
mean the Young lady assistant I'm
liking on. and the nickeled badges
t.- the men? No: think can stand
! -Y. strain of those two luxuries and
sill keep out of the business trouble
ST.
AS for Inez. with her half interest
). a Cd avenue delicatessen store
that's just bloo1ned out with 10x15-
f"ot show window. she's Just plain
suobbish. Easements" says she. "is
-nr cobblers. and cleaning tatlors. and
-hesc fellers that sell bucket coal.
my UOn you 5el d pioSo VA >AiS
/. round fioor?'
With a big display window and a
l.ir rent, ehc" says I. But what
>,uuid I exhibit row of Handy
.Nndys playing checkers while wait
ing for calls: Really, Inez, I can't
feature IT.
Louisa and me can look out and
Sc everything goin' on" she insists.
Il know" says I. through the
+.stoons of wienerwurst. 1t must be
fascinating But I should be too busy
!. enjoy the passing throng on Sd
avenue, so I guess I'll stick to the
side street and let the business trfckle
fl over the phone as usual.
It's no hull about my not having
time for sightseeing, either; for, even
with Miss Moss to keep the accounts
and help answer the phone, 1 can
,.ften put in a hectic nine-hour day.
when luncheon time means only a
twenty minute pause over tray sent
iu from a chophouse. You see, about
r.ne out of ten orders that come in
pre marked emergency calls. Anyway.
rie people who ask US to do odd Jobs
seem to think we're in business solely
"a servo them. and my policy Is to kid
I'm along that they're right.
AS a. matter of fact. it's likely that
-he balky door they want f1xed. or the
ripe that's dripping into q pan. or
=, hatever is wrong, has been that way
f,r weeks; but, once they call up the
Handy Andy shop. they expect q man
- appear almost as soon az they've
Jung up. And my aim is not to dis
appoint them. I expect that's one
reason we're such a going concern.
They braE about us to their friends.
end there's nothing will roll up tho
t,.owbalI of success any quicker than
1hat sort OF advertising.
So IL wasn't long before I began
t. have these rosy dreams: IF could
knock out a hundred or SO a week
" it'll only q small force, and by work.
ing only a few blocks of the city at a
iime, why couldn't 1 mako twice as
much by establishing an uptown
branch Why not have one on the
We.t Side and another in the Bronx?
Then there were sections of Brook
1vn and Staten island. There was
Mount Vernon and New Rochelle.
>ud what was to stop me from invad-
ing Jersey City and Newark? Then
low about Philadelphia and its
suburbs? Say. there are five and ten
Kings. and so on. Why not chain
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