The Sunday Oregonian., November 21, 1920, Magazine Section, Page 8, Image 96

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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 21, 1920
LIFE SKETCHED
ARTIST WHO SENSES SPIRIT OF THE DAY
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MORTALS
In Office Hours
By 7. E. HILL
Qgyjgj 12e TorVTHbMng Inc.
Bss!e, the filing clerk, "hows up with an engagement ring, totally disrupting the
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fXvJTTet 8 ee'the color f your jnoney-scoma a, boy, TeF see your money!" Eddie,
the -office drudge, lightening the tedium of the weary hours by a little kidding session
"witlrJoe, the elevator man. Eddie en route to the mail order department with an,
ma order marked 'Bush."
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The Saturday morning raiment
of Annette, the stylish stenog,
who has come to business all
fixed up for the matinee, is
enough to drive all thoughts of
whatever was to follow "In re
ply to yours of the seventh "
completely out of Mr. Lorber'a,
hean.
Something must be wrong with Grade's dicta
tion. She finds she can't understand what it's
all about and that never happened before!
Some -hing mutt be wrong.
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j Laura, .the temperamental stenog. Ehe's broken the jraOi&ott
her pencil right when the boss was giving; her. dictation, N
wpndes vshe's dissolved in tears!
tr. Uingold, a .customer frcm upstate, who has dropped in t6 pass the
time of day; also to borrow a hundred or so, in case he and his wife run
vhort before returning to Olean. Mr. Ringold is asking after the health
iof everybody's family, as a preliminary to the touch.
Air. Wflbert Clove, the head bookkeeper
looking for some hapless person to -come
look at, the latest backyard snapshots of
the Clove grandchild.
,kSayt Miss Lutx, come here and see if
you can make anything out of this rec
- rd! Mr. Garvey, the vice-president,
certainly had no business dictating letters
via a dictaphone, with a cold in his head
and a tooth out. Mr. Garvey has gene
back to the dentist's, and it looks very '
touch as though poor Miss Raff, his secre
tary would hav to stay overtime.
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The boss's wife stops in for a llt
, tie shopping money and is being
awfully condescending and sweet
to the office force.
In the boss's private office.
"Yes, tirl You got to use your
niblick and make a crisp shot!
An eniy shot with a long swing
don't get you anywhere I"
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Lady registerihg sunshine out for subscriptions to somethfef;
Cther. li thB'bps.is in a good humor she may get it.
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