s my typewriter,
Transcribing letters
That the Boss dictates around
His chew
After he has discussed the weather,
And the squeak in his car,
And his young hopeful's latest,
And the L. of N.

Click! Click!
While he writes impudent
Things
For the Line
About the Stenos,
And asks me how to spell
The words.

Hark!
To the death rattle of
The cuspidor
Upset,
As he departs at two o'clock
To golf,
While I type on
Till five.

Agnes.

* * *

Mr. Gompers advises labor to accomplish its desires at the polls,
instead of chasing after the red gods of political theory. This is
excellently gomped, and will make as deep an impression as an autumn
leaf falling on a rock.

* * *

Since the so-called working classes are unable or unwilling to do so
simple a sum as dividing the total wealth of a nation by the number of
its inhabitants; since they cannot or will not understand that if the
profits of an industry are exceeded by the wages paid, the industry must
stop; since they only reason _a posteriori_ when that is well kicked,
and by themselves--it is fortunate that the United States has the
opportunity to watch the progress of the experiment now making in
England.

* * *

Nowadays the buying and dispatching of Christmas gifts is scientifically
made. One merely selects this or that and orders it sent to So-and So.
One turns in to a book store a list of titles and a list of names and
addresses, and the book store does the rest.

Consequently one misses the pleasant labor of tying up the gift, of
journeying to the post-office, to have it weighed and stamped, and of
dropping it through the slot and wondering whether the string will
break, or whether the package will go astray.

* * *

We were engaged in dropping newly-minted double-eagles into the
Christmas stockings of our contributors when an auto truck got mired
near our chamber window, and the roar of it woke us up.

* * *

Japanese, Chinese, Hindus, and other Orientals are disliked, not because
of race or color, but because they are willing to work. Anyone who is
willing to work in these times is, like the needy knife-grinder, a
wretch whom no sense of wrongs can rouse to vengeance.

* * *

Washladies get more money for less work than any other members of the
leisure c