| Show i Pause Reader here ere Is Sad Story of Imp end And Angel Combined Th MI M V OJ- OJ Mai m er tl e F S Soulful 1 S Pours Pour's Out OutHer Out OutHer OutHer Her Heart in in Describing Describing Describing ing Office Boy Boy By Selma Miller H fair fall Utopia from whose lap lapof OH of velvet sprang our two office boys clad in in immortal armor armor Imm immune ne' ne from the worries s and cares of the ordinary reporter Just Justa a pear pear poetic expression proceeding from an er brain The C C. E E. t thinks otherwise i While I pant for air In the embrace embrace embrace em em- brace of a B O O. Must and strangle on the advertising solicitors solicitor's exclusive I style of composition these two with feet propped high and spines at angles of 45 degrees hold with Dynamite Dynamite Dy Dy- Gus or stand at respectful distance and watch Kid D Dangerous clean up The Bucket of Blood and run off with the bartenders bartender's daughter by means of optical delusion and a aten aten aten ten cen cent t novel WANDER WITH MUSES Reporters may sweat blood or with their typewriters as trusty steeds try to out-gallop out the office nightmare Dt Deadline yet the O O. Bs B's removed from the worries of the world by the width of the room will pursue their wanderings in tn the realm of art and letters Yea a newspaper may be I born and perish within the hour and the office boy would only pop his gulland gun gull gun r and wander ander onward in the maze of adventure held between finger end and thumb Further referring to the extensive reading our two temples of ot fiction do daily dally I must confess they never murmur If it they are Interrupted In a scene wh where re the knife is about to pierce the bosom of the fair maiden malden but leisurely wet the forefinger turn turndown turndown down the corner of the page lovingly I deposit the on the table unwind their anatomies from the chairs and andreport andreport andreport report for duty HE DOES EVERYTHING One office boy bOyr gets a message from the M M. E. E While passing the C C. Es E's desk he Is told to call can for tor copy at the press room He looks into the telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone room before departing and the telephone operator wonders onders out loud if it would be too much bother to get geta a spool spoof of white No 50 pO at the Fifteen Cents store In the hall he meets the cub whose mother left a loaf of bread at th the x X Y T. Z shop and he also wonders wonders wonders won won- ders out loud if It would be possible for him to call for It He returns sometime with everything the theoffice theoffice theoffice office ever dreamed of ot or hoped for forand forand and resumes his novel proceeding with the slaying of the beautiful one I without a hitch In the proceedings BEWARE Before the 0 O. Bs B's get their villains slain however they get half a dozen or so rush as assignments from the desk They mount their wheels tear around town for fog a while white perhaps hand out two or or three black eyes to rival com com- com competitors com m and return in just the proper moods for the killings of their re respective respective re- re blu bluebeards beards If It you you have safely safe safe- safely ly passed out of you will have learned that you take your own risks if you call upon the office boy I for some favor Just when he gets started on the killing of the villain i after such an experience as as' as mentioned mentioned men men- JT'S iTS A CINCH Now I I 1 find rind it necessary to repeat that I think they have altogether too soft a Job Besides repairing and cleaning the typewriters going to the postoffice three times a day calling at half a dozen dozers places place for copy opy getting getting get get- ting the editors editor's extra shoes shined cutting the copy paper changing type writer ribbons doing miscellaneous jobs on and off all aU day and matching crochet cotton for tor the he stenographer they really zeallY haven't much uch to do |
