Letters of a self-made failure . claiming your attention will event-ually create the impression that he is not getting your maximum efficiency 113 XV ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE The village swells passed us up as though we had measles in the family 120 By all means take your vacation. The more youare missed at the office the warmer will beyour welcome on your return 139 He carried a stick and a letter of introductionwhich certified to the fact that Mr. J. Wel-lington Whimple was a friend of yours . 153 He told me also that you were aces up with the swellest little skirt in all Manhattan . . 157 Its pre
Letters of a self-made failure . claiming your attention will event-ually create the impression that he is not getting your maximum efficiency 113 XV ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE The village swells passed us up as though we had measles in the family 120 By all means take your vacation. The more youare missed at the office the warmer will beyour welcome on your return 139 He carried a stick and a letter of introductionwhich certified to the fact that Mr. J. Wel-lington Whimple was a friend of yours . 153 He told me also that you were aces up with the swellest little skirt in all Manhattan . . 157 Its pretty tough for a single man to be broke andout of work, but if you want to get the realdefinition of suffering, ask a married man howit feels to be in that position 161 I was worried to death over the expense and feltas though I should have been paying my billswith the railroad fare 171 XVI ^/l young man of bound-less energy lands his firstgood job and receives hiselder brother * sfelicitationsand a tip on the familyweakness. FRANKGODWIN LETTERS OFA SELF-MADE FAILURE Oldburg, Jan. 15, Bob: Im certainly delighted to learn thatyou have landed so happily, and fromthe way you put it, Im inclined to agreewith you that this is the first real oppor-tunity that has rung your front door bellsince you began to shift for yourself inthe Big Town. Im going to give you some advice;it isnt a very tangible gift, but it costme a lot of money to be able to offer it,so you neednt consider it cheap. I dont expect you to follow it. Fol-lowing never ran in our family; wereall leaders—or we think we are. That idea began with a certain pater-nal ancestor of ours who led a detach-19 LETTERS OF ment of Red Coats to magnificent defeatduring the Revolutionary War, and ithas continued down the line in varyingforms until yours truly led your sister-in-law to the altar. Since then weveboth led a desultory existence, and untilrecently I was considered one of theleading failures in the Empire State.
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