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Show HIS WORK A PLEASURE &j NONSENSE ABOUT "TIRED BUSI-NE88 BUSI-NE88 MAN" EXPLODED. Supreme Folly Is That of Placing Him In the Ranks of, the "Weary Willies" of Fiction. It might be Interesting to know who Invented tho phrase, "tho tired business man," which 1b employod chiefly In connection with tho theater. Tho business man, according to the- atcr managers, Is too tired to sit through a serious or profound play, and so It Is a custom to stago musical comodles and farces. Now a nowB Item has appeared In a morning Journnl In which It Is assorted as-sorted that a statement mado "may mean llttlo to the tired business man," which, we think, Is cnrrylng an absurd Idea n stop too far. , As n mattor of fact, thero are few If any tired business men, The real business mnn loves his work, nnd It Is, therefore, not wearying. Ho Is not a weakling, and his tired condition Is . chiefly n Action manufactured by others oth-ers for their own purposes It Is seldom sel-dom that the business man dnfonds or excuses himself on tho ground that he Is tlrod. It Is Instoad. the man who knows nothing at all about business who admits ad-mits that ho Is tired. Tbo Weary Willie Wil-lie of tho funnysldes Is the country's accepted Ideal of weariness. The aver-ago aver-ago business man Is n sort of modern Atlas, who tan bear tho weight of tho world on his hack, and como up smll-Ing smll-Ing which Is going Atlas ouo better. Most llctlons are harmless. But .It ought to bo more than common Justice to a self-reliant nnd Industrious branch of society to find some other oxcuse fur puerile entertnlnment and for other oth-er Interesting things than the foralllor ono thnt they aro demanded by "the tired business man." Patersou, N. .'. News |