Show THROWN OUT OP A JOB HOW A DISCHARGE AFFECTS DIFFERENT MEN IN A BIG CITY struggle 0 joe who ig bat of the average unfortunate fellow looking for work rosr others etke the new joes envelope said simply the hoose regrets it can nor longer offer yon employment but its reasons do not hinge upon conr competency and we take occasion ito thank confor yon for good work for ns wishing yon well joe thought to bide the message from john as he passed ont john had worked at his elbows for mor itris but he john followed him ont andraid and eaid stout heart old fellow have a better job in a week if I 1 can do you a favor call on me my turn 1 imagine jj joe walked the streets for hours then went home to hia wife and not less surely yearn older than when he had left them inthe morning be has fixed nis purpose and wil hew to it hf takes the rhual thu children a anne of some to tux wife and eivid bar as is his rulo aliu weeks earu indis thain he acta fur the birst time ic iia life lie and ca rouses with flora until nhe tm luves he is as much H child iia her elf and im wife all aiom lit r cwm tuble and it she was ever as happy in the old conning days as cue is now and jooa beai t is heavy under it all for he determines that they ahall not know of his bad luck until he nas smother job he is hurt humiliated repulsed he coela that the house has clipped him oil because it could spare him more easily tb in any one of the hundred odd others that it has retained but that little wife sitting there with her bead full of belief in me arnow sla must believe me all I 1 seemed to be WORK AT LAST he looks for work ten hours a day for i week and find it saturday he his watch for a weeks wages and curries it home telling them that his watch had been stolen from him but that he had a clew to the thief and that inspector barnea would catch him in a few days he says to himself that fate lole it from him but he keeps up the I 1 liay bravely and with fortitude answers the evening of the home ones about whether they have found the A atch the next two weeks arc tided over by belling the building and loan arock then he borrowa another weeks pay of a every morning ho starts to work at rha regular conr every evening he re tarna they go to the theater athey buy some needed and long promised clothes they pay their regular missionary money and church fees for joe is playing a ily sperate hand now but with an insane sort of coolness something asks him over and over again every day whore will it end but joe aust sets hia lips a little harder and dont reply even in thought his encyclopedia goes nest he loans it to a friend down town at the office so tie tella them at home toe cant eat tily tins week he watches his wife ind childrens some tiling like a brute would do nu moved he tells amy to dank hn gnp of tea he has no appetite and dont want it then be ia for the first time in his life affected with gatans satans specially ex ported article of disease in sonni he sits for hours watching his family as they bleed bleep and he feels a heavy weight slowly settling epou hia brain that he cannot the meaning of next day he finds another position and his wife understand why he gives way so completely for the first jiin in hib life aad anea like a child while telling her of it otner TYPES there are just a few joea in this world not n too many clarence barney tells hia wife about it as soon as he gets home he is sure he knew the infernal job hold oat long anyhow plenty more though you just have to have a little gall and next day clarence has another job A little less pay to be sure burthen but then be argues its only for a week or BO HI strike a better one the thing you know you dont down me not this year jim burton tho clerk loses hia job be pitches into the whole family and tells them that there must be no more money spent for anything at all understand der stand the goodness only knows when you will get any more from me BO make thia last aa long aa it will he goes down town gets a job tells them at home that he has not yet found one mcl so spends the entire pay for two weeks on himself the while ostensibly for work and making the home ones pinch and worry with lessening the cash then at the critical moment he suddenly finds work and tells them tie nad to take it at seven dollars a week or nothing when be really receives twelve Jhn mies friends down town call him smooth hams who writes shorthand loses a job because he is a bad speller he studies up on bis spelling answers advertisements gets a few encouraging replies and after moving lo 10 a cheaper room once and going it for a week on a diet of crack era and milk occasionally ti nickels dortu of hot waffles be gets another place at one bollara do llara week more ilary and that he will not old reef a second flounder on the same time harris is an average boy a typical caso tholman tl olman bookkeeper with soon 8 that no is to bo dispensed resigns he tells his epry bucked a it t the tinn awfully ahat they keep offered hours and annu eliat aliey raise but that it was all no good a big it is safe about he he knew what was to admit that he did no ernest jenema is discharged frends can get no work starves three days the nyer new yoa world |