| Show SLICK JIM 8UGKBOY flowile BiiThtozed His Bald Employee tt Em-ployee I I BUNKING THE ENTIRE WOEKS Jim Hasn Nerve that Never Relaxes for an Instant tinder Any Circumstances A Sweet Story For THE SUNDAY HEBAUJ Copyrighted E iTt Jo read in novels in Wo I arti ularabout stern J J grasping employers with hearts BO hartl that Pharoaha was ffi like a soft boiled egg in J j comparison grinding 5 the selfconceit out of S employees who work at starvation rates but who are afraid to apply for an increase of salary for fear of being discharged on the spot No doubt mero 1s something in thiS but it generally occurs because the clerk is not very competent com-petent or lacks the nerve to assert his rights But Jim Slickboy who is a drummer drum-mer for a wealthy New York merchant t named Flip is not that kind of a serf With Jim it is the same as with the aver erage ballet dancera little modesty goes a long way To show Jims nerve which by theway Is a nerve that never relaxes on one occasion occa-sion Flip not having heard from him in the way of orders telegraphed to him Jim are you still with us 1I to which he imme diately replied Have drawn on you for 5500 Flip I am still with you I These little incidents and the liability of Jims leaving him and transferring all his customers to some rival merchant worried old Flip very much He finally however concocted a little scheme by which ho hoped to prevent Jim from being gobbled up by a rival firm Tim had just returned from an extensive trip oat West upon which as usual he had been very successful He was fixing up a statement of the trip when old Flip en tered f SLICKBOY BULLDOZING BIS EMPLOYER My dear Mr Sliclcboy good morning I exclaimed Flip shaking his hand cordially Morning Flip answered Jim briefly 11 am glad to see you are back I suppose so Id be glad to see your back too for Im very busy indeed just now remarked Jim pencilling away p What you need is a chin rest but come around a little later and Ill try and spare time to talk to you You remind me of an old hen You never need any help when you are cackling Wouldnt bother you now Mr Slick boy only I wanted to speak to you abnut a little matter of Importance to you You know said Flip hesitatingly See here Flip is it positively necessary forme to stop work and chin with you J Ill liave to go right out on the road again to escape being talked to death You are the most persistent man I ever struck Dont get angry Mr Slickboy I beg of you What I wished to speak of concerns yourself personally Now Flip havent I told you time and again tE have no time forporsoaal con uuuuuu UUrIng Dusmess nours Are you nctuallv trying to exasperate ma beyond the limit of human endurance A thousand times no exclaimed Flip thoroughly frightened What I wished to speak about was that I have observed Oh I sea I know what you are driv ing at You have noticed that it would be to your interest to pay me 10 per cent more commission than you are now doing and have also observed that I ought to have a couple of hundred dollars more for travel ing expenses I acceptIll not go back on ray wordso run along now and lot me at tend to my business You neednt waste any more time over a little trifle like that Flip hardly knew what to do So far he had been unable to try his little scheme on Jim The latter feigned not to see him and it was not until Flip timidly pronounced his name that ho spoke What he exclaimed much surprised you here yet Great Scott dont you know that time is moneyl You act as if you wore built in this office and was waiting m wait-ing to be launched Is this your vacation week I wanted to tell you Why blankity blank itl didntltell you that I would accept your increase l I would have accepted it long ago if yaa had mentioned it What do you want Beads of perspiration stood on poor Flips forehead and he blinked like a bat in mid day I only wanted to say Mr Slickboy that I had noticed your attentions to my f daughter Carrie and I wanted to let you know that they were reciprocated and that you bad my hearty consent to an engagement engage-ment There is no young man I know of whom I would rather have for a sonin law = ELICKBOT f FIRST MAKES LOVE TO THE JUTJGII TEE i So you dont refer to an increase com mission i roared Slickboy Oh yes its all right about the increase I am only too glad to have you accept it buterwhat am I to tell Carrie Im afraid she will have to do some pin Ing Carrie is anice enough girl in her but it would be useless way for her to engage en-gage herself to me Ill toll you why I dont believe we havo a big customer out west who hasnt got a daughter that is engaged en-gaged to me That is one of the secrets of my success They think whenever they give me an order Well this young duck will soon be marrying my daughter and i Its just like having it in the family At the sama time if I keep on engaging mgself to girls people will think I am a West Point cadet after a while Well God bless me exclaimed the astonished Flip passing his hand over his face in a dazed manner as he returned to his office completely crushed A nice little game that of Flips chuckled Jim as he checked off an order or one thousand pounds of starch The old codgers got more sense than I thought he had Ho wants to have a dead sure motherinlaw grip on me but Im too old a bird for that Slickboy then wrote out a more loving letter to My dear future little wifey telling how lonesome hq felt away from her how he would count the hours until he could once u ore clasp her to his bosom etc i Having finished the letter he sent off duplicates to his future wife Jennie at Chicago Minnie at St Louis Ivatrlna at Milwaukee Fannie at Cincinnati Melanie at New Orleans and all tho restof her ALEXANDER E SWEET |
