| Show Daily Short Shott I Fiction Story 1 I- I BETTYS BETTY'S SUCCESS B By LOUISE OLIVER Copyright 1915 by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate Betty looked looke up from her news newspaper newspaper news news-I paper and frowned out of the win win- dow lOW The jerking of the car was bad ba enough w without the distracting con conversation conversation con con- of two men in the ea eat ahead Her frown deepened as she heard bean one say Im tired Ired of the whole business No more female stenographers in rn my office Not that they are not com competent corn the the last one was a dandy dandy- but they hEY demoralize the whole office offic force because they are are attractive The time is comin coming when people wont won't say as pretty as a picture a ashe or she looks like an an actress There Then I will be a new symbol sym ol of beauty It I will be disgustedly she is a as I beautiful as s a stenographer His HI companion laughed Your Yarn fair certainly have not demoralized demoralized de de- de moralized you you flint hearted ol old bachelor the matter with wilt the bookkeeper taking Mabel out to tc lunch or the chief clerk exhibiting two pink tickets for the show when he passes her desk The lunches you speak of take nearer two hours than one and the pink theatre tickets and a supper after mean a half halt hour late la the next morning If I could land an ugly one I it would be different rent but they dont don't grow Im I'm blessed if I 1 ever saw sawa a stenographer who didn't look like a frontispiece in a dollar and a a. half novel Im I'm g going ing to advertise in the morning for a man plan Betty had become thoughtful She had just finished a course in the art artof pf of shorthand and typewriting and it was up to her to get work Mab was painting and Lillian was teaching but it was now necessary for Bab Baby Betty as the family called her to contribute to the general exchequer But if tl today was a sample positions were not growing along the th curbstones curbstones curb curb- stones waiting to be plucked and now she he was doubly discouraged When the car stopped at her corner corner corner cor cor- ner she flew home to talk things over with the girls and their indignation over ver her recent experience was very soothing I IThe The rhe next morning Albert TrowbrIdge Trowbridge Trow- Trow bridge ridge was scarcely seated at his desk Jesk when the boy announced with a agrin agrin arrin grin that a lady wished to see him Mr SIr Trowbridge frowned but gave a grudging consent Show her In the in A person soon appeared doorway who caused that gentleman to o gasp But suddenly remembering his is manners he sprang to his feet Good morning Miss Heck she supplied curtly He surveyed th the round shiny facend face and nd steel spectacles a de decade e old ld hat tat perched on top of a coiffure s so flat that it looked like paint and the doorbell knot twisted so tight it pulled her eyes aslant Sit down Miss Heck please The lady deposited herself with a flop upon the chair indicated and tugged uneasily at the short coat sleeves cuff andI and that left a hiatus between glove gloye She looked up half halt defiantly who seemed to behaving be behaving behaving I at st th the gentleman having trouble with his his' breathing I iI he heard rd that you wanted a stenographer stenographer stenographer and thought maybe I would do LIa Im I'm one one Mr Trowbridge opened his mouth it closed without with with- td to say something but out Dut producing a sound t i Im one repeated the lady Indeed gasped Mr Trowbridge Yes You'll find Im I'm businesslike quick and competent And fixing him with an owlish look over her I dont don't glasses she added Besides bother other about men nor they me You will save time and times time's money these days s You are quite right he agreed politely Time is money A whimsical look hook c came me into his face race which slowly broadened into a agrin grin as he thoughtfully tapped his pen pencil il against his desk I 1 believe Ill I'll try you Miss Heck he e exclaimed suddenly I have hada hadL had with trouble a L great deal of undesirable young young ladles and I I beleve believe believe be be- lieve leve you QU QU are aie re Just what 1 I am looking for or As she took her place at the typewriter typewriter type type- writer in the outer office ottice a painful hush nish fell over the room The chief clerk lerk whose dut duty it was to initiate new ew stenographers made a wry face behind his hand land and the young lady caught aught something about souring ream cream Miss Heck proved to be all she claimed for herself She was businesslike bus busi quiet and quick The best of f all was the time gained by the in inattention inattention in- in attention of the office men Mr Trowbridge himself at the end of a week confided his joy to his companion companion com com com- panion anion of the car Ive found a perfect perfect per per- lemon of ot a stenographer She Iso Is Isso isso so o ugly she Is fascinating I dictate twice as many letters as I 1 used to Just to convince myself of my luck uck One day Miss Heck was awa away She sent ent word Yord that she was ill which worried Mr Trowbridge very much Poor thing They had worked her herto herto to 0 death and to pay up f r it he would hire one of the frontispiece kind and it would be the the same |
