Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1913 — WOMAN COULD NOT SEE JOKE [ARTICLE]

WOMAN COULD NOT SEE JOKE

Bookkeeper Pleads for Cut In Salary to Get His Name Off Firm’s Stationery. "I’ve got a good joke on old Spotcash,” announced Mr. Adder, chief bookkeeper for the firm, aa he tuckedl his napkin under his chin. "What is It?" asked his wife, preparing to pour the tea. “Why, you know be always puts my name on the letter heads as ‘business manager.’ Now I’m not really the business manager, and never have been, and I’ dead tired of seeing my name there. I’ve asked him again and again to leave it off, but be won’t. This morning I said to him: v " ‘Mr. Spotcash, I’D stand a cut in salary if you’ll drop my name from your office stationery.’ " ‘How much of a cut?’ he says. “11l leave that to you.’ “He thought a minute, and then hs says: " Well, your salary hereafter win be just S2O a month less than we have paid you heretofore.’ “‘That’s all right,’ I says. So my name’s to be dropped from the firm’s letter heads and bills after this." “But where’s the Joke on Mr. Spotcash?” inquired Mrs. Adder, in hopeless bewilderment. “Don’t you see? He thinks my name on the office stationery is worth $240 a year, and I know it isn’t worth a canceled postage stamp. He’s really beat-. Ing himself out of $240.” But Mrs. Adder, with that Incapacity which so many women bhve for comprehending the fine points of business* couldn’t see it