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Show WHERE NAGGER HURTS ETERNAL FAULT-FINDING DISRUPTS DIS-RUPTS ANY FORCE. Mistake All Too Frequently Made by Those In Authority and Who Possess Pos-sess a Quick Temper. Anderson had tho faculty of so confusing con-fusing nnd muddling a girl in Ofteen minutes that It would be half a day be-foro be-foro sho got back on tho right track again. Ills "nagging" was of tho quick, excitable, fusay, Irritating va-rloty. va-rloty. Behind his back bo was "tho dancing mastor." By half-past nine o'clock on tho mornings of his "bad days" tho whlspor would pass from desk to desk." "He's on the Job again today." Many a "nagger" half suspects It himself, many moro know they "nag" and glory In It, feeling that minor browbentlng of this sort Is one of the perquisites of oven a llttlo executive authority. But men of Anderson's type think they aro really helping the clerka Individually nnd the clerical force as a whole, when they descend on one or all and "rampngo" In petty ways. Anderson would hnvo been very much surprised If It had ever been hinted to him that ho hod this falling. One of his staff, tbo samo capable young womnn already spoken of, once said of him: "Ho cun do more dnm-ngo dnm-ngo in destroying tho work of a day than any other man I have ever seen. If he were renlly cross, assortlve, domineering, oven brutnlly unjust. It would be hnrd, but It would not necessarily neces-sarily upsot my work. Nonsensical bothering Is what sets tho business . woman's nerves on edge It dlstrncts, llko tho pricking of countless pins. Cromwell Chlldo, In Hnrper's Weekly. |