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Show How It Was Obtained The value of good penmanship - and all kinds of similar manual kill - has been proved in the experience of many a body seeking a situation. It pays well to take pains during one's school days in making letters and figures, so as to acquire an elegant hand. A New York paper relates how a city merchant concluded to give a day's job to a boy who wanted a steady place and was so much pleased with his willingness that he told the lad to come the next morning. He was there long before anyone else was, and in that way shows his promptness. During the day, when the foreman was out, he marked the weight on some bundles he had been weighing. The head of the firm happened to notice the figures and as they were so well made and in a strange hand, he inquired as to who had made them. When he learned that the new boy had made them, he sent for him to come down to the office. When he came into the office he was asked to show a specimen of this writing by copying an article. His writing was so beautiful that he decided to hire him for an office clerk. So this boy, who was poor, obtained a permanent situation and a good salary by his willingness to do any work that he was give to do; also by taking pains with his figures and writing. |