Show I j. j I Teamwork II I B By JOHN BLAKE For ten years said a a a- prosperous prosperous business s man my wife Insisted that I was killing myself with with work I I had Just gone Into a business about which knew no more than any merchant would know about merchandising In general Th The business was new the town was new Everything was n new w We were getting ready for an opening when I J joined the firm I worked all day and went back and worked till midnight My wife constantly constantI protested I But nut I kept at It because I saw that this war warthe the he only way to find out what I needed to know about the business In a year year sear I had the habit of day and night work so on me that L I. couldn't break it I still went back to the store after dinner dinner din din- ner ncr two or three nights a week All this time I 1 was as the the object sometimes of sympathy sometimes of f disapproval at homeI home I I had to listen to to long lectures about what I owed my health and how I 1 couldn't take talce with me methe methe the he money rhoney I was making x The Joke about that was that I wasn't making any money to speak of that is Is no great sums of ot money were coming In at that UmeA timeA timeA time Ume A year jear or two ago go some sort of change c came me o er my wife She began to p take talce an n Interest jn frest In my business and to to ask m me questions about It In Instead Instead instead In- In stead of regarding it as some sort of rival riva which was stealing affections my Sometimes she slie came down to the store and looked the place over By and by I got to talking problems over with her She no longer objected l to m m my spending so much time on the Job She had bepin to see the necessity of It A 1 she had learned to that an able bodied n do twelve hours or more of work a day kill himself provided he takes a 0 little exer- exer d d 4 doesn't overeat cw there Is Js teamwork at m my house My wife Is m my best help In my business She thoroughly understands the reason that I devote so much time and attention to It and sh she does pot not ot consider that I t am stealing this time from front herThe her The result Is that I Tam Lam am g getting tUng a lot more enjoyment enjoyment en en- out of or life Ufe and my work is get getting ing easier Incidentally work I did eight or nine years ago for which I 1 got nothing at the time is beginning to o draw pay What I mean by that Is that the capital of experience experience ex ex- that I was laying up In my mind Is payIng payin pay pay- in ing dividends dividends' I 1 make fewer mistakes and mistakes mistakes mistakes mis mis- takes are what m make ke failures It was natural thit my wife couldn't understand at first and that teamwork was Impossible But we have it now And we shall be able when I retire re retire ye- ye tire to put the same teamwork Into t tie the e foreign travel tra that we plan It It ten years to enable us thoroughly to understand ea each h other But the ten years wa wa- well welt spent We might have got along faster had hac this come about earlier but we make no complaint Better teamwork after tep ten years than never 1025 1125 by bythe the Bell Syndicate Inc |