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 business, and how to ayoid personalities which are dangerous and banal.

Trust no confidant with the affairs of your employer.

"Let out that girl with the green dress and the red hair—right over there—at the second desk," said the senior partner of a large concern one day as he came in from lunch. The man addressed followed his employer into the latter's private office and closed the door behind him. "I beg your pardon, Mr. M. for questioning your orders, but Miss Brown is one of our most rapid workers"

"And a dangerous girl to have in our office. My boy came in here to-day and bothered me just when I was working at some important papers. He wanted some clothes or something or the sort for a college jamboree, and I told him, with strong trimmings, to get out. I want domestic and family questions settled where they belong, in our home, and not at my office during business hours. That was all there was to our row.

"That girl had lunch with a man at my restaurant to-day, and I was just a few feet from her, screened by some palms. I heard her tell that man about a sensational quarrel between me and my boy over a chorus girl. The boy is singing in the chorus of his class show. That was all she caught of our high words 'chorus'