Penman's Art Journal . twolater awarded him the position—a better one than he hadhoped to secure. He is still there. Another young man learned of a vacancy as head stenog-rapher in a large office. He was not an exceptional man, but abusiness man with a good knowledge of his work and a confi-dence in the ability lie knew himself to be possessed of. Whenhe entered the office where the vacancy was he saw a line ofyoung men half way across the room. He saw that under or-dinary circumstances he stood no chance of securing the posi-tion, so he walked straight into the private office, handed hiscard
Penman's Art Journal . twolater awarded him the position—a better one than he hadhoped to secure. He is still there. Another young man learned of a vacancy as head stenog-rapher in a large office. He was not an exceptional man, but abusiness man with a good knowledge of his work and a confi-dence in the ability lie knew himself to be possessed of. Whenhe entered the office where the vacancy was he saw a line ofyoung men half way across the room. He saw that under or-dinary circumstances he stood no chance of securing the posi-tion, so he walked straight into the private office, handed hiscard to the manager and said: Im a busy man and haventtime to wait. I can do the work, and if you care to talk withme drop me a note and I will call. He received a note thefollowing day and the position was awarded to him. Themanager liked the way lie overcame his difficulties. Perhapssome other manager would have thought this act presumptuousand refused to consider the application at all. t-J&wuuu) Q7uL Clsoiluui/p :. The Cecilian Pageant, One of the Features of the Annual Field Day of the Remington1 Typewriter Employes, at Ilion, New York. The Ilion (.V. Y.) Citizen of July 4 devotes practically all ofits first page to a write-up of the third annual field day of theemployes of the Remington Typewriter Company, located atthat city. The athletic contests consisted of running, jumping,hammer throwing, pole vaulting, etc. One of the most inter-esting and pleasant events was called the Cecilian Pageant,in which nearly one hundred young ladies, dressed in white,with red, white and Hue streamers and carrying wand;., exe-cuted several military movements. The champion athlete wasWilliam A. Clark, who won seventeen points and was pre-sented with a gold medal by the president of the company,H. H. Benedict. the days of his younger manhood pass by. So long as theworld continues to develop there will be an increasing demandfor men who can and will do something. One failure shouldbut point the
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