TURNING THE TABLES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 395, 2 January 1909, Page 3

TURNING THE TABLES.

;, He. was a terribly, "short" man,- hut he knew a jeal live business woman when he saw' The advice which the physical director of shorthand-writer and typist, and he turned upon her a rapid fire of questions; Talk slangP" r " No, sir." • • ;. "Know how: to spell cat and• dog.correctly?" _ ': : " .Yes,'sir:'.' ■ . ... , > • " Use the telephone every other minute P" "No, sir." , " Usually , tell everybody in the offico how much the firm owes, and all the rest of the private, business you learn?" • ' >. " No, sir." He 'was thinking of . something else to ask her, , when, she took a hand in the matter and put a few queries. -• ■ ;:, • , " Smoke cigars when you're dictating?" " Why— cr—no!" he : gasped, in • astonishment. : . ,- • " Slam things about when business is bad?" . . '-• "No." • : " Think you know enough about grammar and punctuation to appreciate a good typist 7 when you get one?" • • "I—l think so." '[ :•: : "Want mo to go to work, or your timo worth so little that —" . He interrupted her enthusiastically— - . " Kindly hang up your things, and lot's.get at these letters." i ■ . ■ i- . '