TOASTORSA001 GMA
THE CHINA MAH, MARCH 15, 1987.
Easy to Wear Easy to Pack Are YOU the
"PERFECT BOSS"--
Soft dusty yellow is the color of this conical cap of felt, whose novelty
its uncrushable quality which allows the wearer to pack it in any
venient space. And it's also easy to look at, as you can see.
BURNS PHILP LINE
M.V.NEPTUNA"
DUE 16th MARCH, 1937
or the IDEAL SECRETARY?
Mr. X said:
"Miss Y... is my idea of a fect secretary because →
"She is very easy on the eye, being neither irritatingly neat maddeningly slovenly in her
person
She is interested in her work and does not watch the clock She does not powder her nose nor blow it like a trumpet in the office.
doors.
She neither sulks nor slams
She is neither rude nor ab rupt over the telephone and can be relied upon to take down any mes- sage correctly.
"... She does not waste her time or my money by having repeated private. telephone calls.
She never uses the abomin- able expression 'boy friend'
Her fingers are not stained with nicotine.
She does not sniff.
She brings me my after-1. noon tea without slopping it over into the saucer and she never for- gets my special "biscuits.
She will work overtime if
I ask her and she does it without heaving deep and meaning sighs.
There are secretaries and se- There's the doormat the willing horse and the lady with the large head who bullies the ofice boy,
There are, too, bosses and bos- ses, rude, petulant, querulous, blustering Just so simple- sweet and rally dithering that they apologise regularly for no apparent reason.
But they are extremes, which, business, very often
meet
re th
But what of the thousands of brdinary work-a-day people who
in and out of their offices days a week? It is interest- and amusing to find out from them the sort of people they like to work with, and for, and why. Here is the result of plomatic and apparent-
inquiries put to Mr. mployer of Miss Y. A. gossip over the coffee. rompted Miss Y to sup-
ply her side of the question, too,
She isn't everlastingly run-come in on time and work hard the ning in and out of my room on trifi-whole day he should keep his; and ing errands.
allow me to vanish at the agr She doesn't pat her hair or hour.
simper.
He-buys his own anti-sneeze She doesn't alter letters Imixture and does not expect me to have dictated without asking me run for an temporarily finance his first.
private needs.
I like her for having enough
"He realises that, by 1 p.m., self-respect and independence tomy inner woman is feeling thin, insist on extending her lunch hour pale and weary, and that food is occasionally for necessary shopping, required even though he himself hairdressing,
Miss Y-said:
"I like working for Mr. X
cause...
may not feel hungry."
He never wears brown shoes with a grey suit, and refrains from bedraught-board or baby-frightening
attire on Saturday mornings.
moderation; me,He smokes in
He is a gentleman to his secretary as much as to his does not borrow my matches; nor
Fattempt to asphyxiate me with
most important clients.
He realises that if I keep throat-destroying cloud. my part of the bargain-that is,,
Although he is everlasting-
not
ly losing his pencil, he does steal mine and pretend ignorance at its disappearance.
He doesn't stare through me when he is thinking.
He has a simply marvellous
Every Meal
A Torture.
MAN'S. MISERY WITH GASTRIC
grin
TROUBLE
He has the manners to say
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"For three years I suffered severely Good morning" and "Good night as from gästeie tromble and bloodlessness," if he meant it states Mr.R. J. Scott, of 29, Whitmore
He doesn't scribble little Street, Maidstone, Kent I suffered notes all over my letters when I
rtures after everything I ate, and ten had to get up in the night to take have
to ease the pam. At one ly. had nothing but soda and indi
week, and frequently, ay from work
for a
trest
for a long time,
gave me any
Far old
Williams'
ly lessened and ene
back at work. “No
lity, sle
endeavoured to type them neat-
He doesn't breathe down the back of my neck when reading pa-
He doesn't pace up and down
dictating, like
holds the telephone re ceiver in his left hand so that, if tre he wants to write anything down, there is not a lot of scuffing and blind groping for pencil and paper followed by a change of hands and
eneral untidying
me and not “Miss
desk.
out în his
thin-
cigarette
THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 15, 1937.