Show JOKE 4 ON COUNTRY YOUTH LEADS TO HIGH POSITION given mythical job and Is now vice president of firm now new yorki york members of the office force of a new york mercantile gathered round a festal board in a downtown restaurant recently to celebrate the anniversary of tile the vice president connection with the firm the main entertainment of tile the affair was the big boss boas de scrip alon of how the guest of honor originally got ills his jeb jb A little more than 15 years ago the office had been puzzled by the receipt of a crated typewriter from an up state town it was addressed to somo some one unknown in the establishment A few days later a young maa bear tug ing all th marks of a country youth of that period arrived and announced he ha was ready 16 to go to work work who said work asked the executive in charge why you send bend tor f 0 r mav mar asked the be young roan man T hn t a ml cay typewriter over there in the cornet cornel now 11 well we never sent for you instated insisted the executive there must be some mistake then just as the country youth surrounded by the smiling force was about to shoulder his typewriter and go forth among the pitfalls of the great city the big boss bosa happened along end and stopped to learn leani the cause of the commotion the boss seemed interested and directed tha the young man be sent into his bis private office the interview lasted several minutes it developed that one of the traveling salesmen of the firm thought he would play a joke on the ambitious clerk of a general store where he was waa selling belling a bill of goods ee bad told the young man that the firm wanted him and all he be had bad to do was to ship hla s go down to the city and n daake make his fortune when mien the country youth came ou of the boss private office ho walked over to his typewriter kicked th taj crate oft off put the machine on a desk and settled down on ills his road to the vice presidency of the concern |