Show A LEAD PENCIL TEST 4 it indicates certain ertain C characteristics of the owner judge a man mans s character by lead repeated a drummer in an hotel this morning that s a new standard go on by lead pencils continued an elderly gentleman with a benevolent countenance and evidently a plethoric bank account I 1 am the head of one ot of the largest retail houses in chicago he resumed I 1 was formerly manager ot of the con cern and I 1 hired all of its employed emp loyes I 1 soon became used to sizing up men young and old for what I 1 say does not apply to women because they dont don t 9 carry pencils human nature I 1 soon found runs in regular channels and the man who catches on to the courses of these channels Is not going to be so very much fooled by his fellow men even though the latter may conceal their characteristics artfully or innocently one day while an applicant for a 4 place stood before me I 1 asked him to lend me his pencil lie ile produced one so neatly sharpened at both ends that I 1 gave him a second glance and saw that his appearance though his cloth ing ng was not new accorded with the exactness shown in the neat sharp pencil points I 1 engaged him and today to day he Is the assistant manager of our store that adt gave me a new idea I 1 would ask applicants to lend me a pencil men who carried scrappy bits of pen ell dill d ill and unsharpened or bitten oft off at the ends ends as a rule I 1 found to show 0 other ther external evidences of possessing characteristics which their th air engagement I 1 found that men who kept about them well sharpened pen ells were as a rule good mathematic mathe mati clans were handy with their pen wrote a good hand were neat in their habits and were otherwise superior to the other othet fellows I 1 wont won t say that the lead pencil test of a man s nature proves anything definite as regards his honesty but it 4 will show a good line on his characteristics and this class of men are usually more honest and certainly more se scrupulous and exact than the haps chaps who carry pencils that can t bo be used till iou you go through the tiresome tire seme process of getting out your own knife ind and putting a point yourself upon the lead ad washington star |