Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1892 — Heady tor Business. [ARTICLE]

Heady tor Business.

To be diligent in business Is commendable, but surely one may err on the side of too great diligence by being ready for a trade at an unsuitable time. A map-peddler, in pursuance of his vocation, chanced to stop at a hotel in a Long Island village. A friend, whom he had known elsewhere, seeing him at the hotel, invited him to a party which he was to give the same evening. The map-peddler came, and when received by his host at the door, was found with three maps in his hands. “How de do?” he said. “Got any nails? I though®, as there was to be a good many folks here to-night, I’d hang up some of my maps here and let ’em look at ’em. Good chance fer business. Maybe some of ’em would like to buy ’em, and I could explain ’em just as well as not.” His host endeavored to persuade hUn that it would not be a suitable place to urge his business, much to the man’s surprise. “Now, you don’t understand," urged the peddler. “’Twould amuse and interest ’em, they’d be pleased, and besides tbat, being visitors, they’d feel sort of ’bilged to buy.” But he was then spoken to so plainly tnat he was forced to abandon—greatly to bis surprise as well as his regret—his project of mingling business with entertainment.