Show j typewriter Type feiter doctor 3 by RUBY DOUGLAS wi 0 by mcdunn newspaper syndicate service 1 1 10 cashier of the brookville Broo kville bank ta THE looked aked up from hla his desk as sylvia his competent little stenographer entered his bis office humming bumming gayly why the mirth on monday morning miss Syl sylvia vial he be asked the old old renson reason joy in having created something she told him tell me let me be joyful too persisted the cashier he had known sylvia since her childhood theirs was a friendly family acquaintance as well as a business association 1 I will but you wont like 1141 it 1 sylvia laughed oh conceived the idea of 0 getting married I 1 suppose sylvia raised her hands in protest not at all but the effect on you will be just the same I 1 am going into business for myself the cashier listened while the girl unfolded her plan the idea had come to her on saturday morning alk like a flash of lightning from the unknown spaces she had bad recognized it at once its as an inspiration and all through the weekend week end she had been turning it over in her mind until now it was a concrete plan all formulated and ready to put into action then be a typewriter doctor I 1 gather said the cashier when she had finished her outline yes tes an attractive way to call it there Is no one in town who can mend a machine you know yourself what a nuisance it Is when the typewriters here in the are out of order we have to send to the city and not only pay the mans expenses but wait ull till he finds it convenient oh I 1 think you have hit bit upon a splendid idea I 1 of course we hate to lose you but we cant expect a girl with your ability and ambition to go on working for some one else at perhaps twenty dollars a week go to it miss aless sylvia and we will give you all the support we can thus sylvia severed her connections with the Broo brookville kville bank but she took with her all the good will of the officers and employees who one and all promised to help her to get launched in her new venture she found a diminutive office on the main street and called herself a typewriter doctor she had a native tive mechanical sense and more than a little practical business ability it was not long before sylvia was very busy and she had found it necessary to make a few trips to the city in order to learn from the makers of various machines a number of intricate little peculiarities of their own typewriters but she was quick and determined to succeed nothing seemed too difficult she was wag happy and busy and she was experiencing the thrill that comes with achievement one morning a young man appeared in her office good morning she said cheerily the visitor explained that he was a writer and that he lived on a farm outside the limits of the city his typewriter had become very badly in need n eed of parts and repairs while he was in the middle of some work for a weekly publication he asked whether he might bring in his machine and perhaps rent one one for a few days that was his problem sylvia assured him that that was her work and she had bad several machines on hand that she could let him choose front from for by this time she had not only gone into the business of renting typewriters but she had acquired the agency of a neat little portable machine and was making handsome commis commissions commissio a on t this h is it if the young woman recognized another finger of fate pointing the way to her pathway she did not admit it she confessed to herself that she was glad mr bob saunders would have to return for his machine she liked him in a day or two bob saunders appeared again he was buoyantly happy you are a mascot as well as a good typewriter doctor miss bates he said how do you know asked sylvia for his machine was wag not ready 1 I have told sold the story I 1 wrote on the rented machine tor for more than a third again of what I 1 have ever received before from the same people he told her enthusiastically no now I 1 can well afford to get the parts he remained in the little office longer than was necessary but sylvia kept on working ile he was lost in ad mi ration of 01 the defty easy way r in ia K which she went about mending this machine another an os adjusting that one ode clean in g it II became a babat watching be her could you doctor b heart earton of typewriting the he man ails S syl via weeks S he 6 asked asket lher her one day after many S might if lt it needed lt it tey ted sylvia admit t 1 I think if you would we we could co make a success together 1 I bob wrote better than he talked but sylvia managed to hoped and her for response was all t that understand S he had partner and besides she WS tol d the him doctor ne eds a a |