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Evening Star, Issue 19786, 9 February 1928, Page 2

A man who applied for a salesman’s ioh -urged that he was very steady. His prospective employer rang up his last firm of employers and asked them to verify this. ' “Steady!_ Hell, yes,” was the reply; he’s motionless.”' The old lawyer found his business was becoming a little more than he could handle, and he decided to turn over part of it to his son. Some months afterwards the young man, bea'mmy. with pleasure, sauntered, into his father’s office. “Dad,” he "exclaimed, “remember old Blanker’s case? _ Well, I’ve settled the whole affair in three weeks, and we’ve been working on it ten years.” “Settled!” gasped the old man. “Settled! Why, my dear hoy, I gave you that case ns an annuity! I Brought up the whole family on it.”