SHE HATED COMMAS

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6864, 21 May 1932, Page 9

SHE HATED COMMAS

TYPIST ASSAULTS EMPLOYER A dispute between Mile. a pretty typist, and her employer, which would provide the scenario for an amusing film, struck an unusual note of gaiety in the Paris Correctional Court recently. Mile. .7. was sued for assaulting her employer by hurling a pot of office paste at his head, inflicting a gash on his forehead, the mark of whicy he will bear all his life. „ , , . “Mile. J.,” he declared, “refused to put punctuation marks in the letters I dictated to her. It was no use my dictating, ‘Dear sir, comma,’ and stating ‘new paragraph.’ She refused to take any notice and ran the sentences straight on. She would not use a comma or a full stop, arid when I remonstrated she flew into a rage. The girl, however, defiantly shook her blonde curls and retorted: “This man absolutely got on my nerves with his commas and his full stops. He complained about them on purpose because he wanted to dismiss me. He is intolerable.” The Court fined the girl 17/- and costs.