NOT GEORGE AND MINNIE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XX, Issue XVI, 16 April 1898, Page 491

NOT GEORGE AND MINNIE.

One of the qualities necessary to success in any line of work is the ability to think and act practically upon the every-day questions of life. A young woman who had charge of the cataloguing of the accounts of a bank employed as an assistant a girl apparently intelligent and well educated, to whom she gave the necessary directions for the work. One of the instructions was that, while she was to write out the fidl name where an abbreviation was vised, she must never abbreviate a name. One day- the young woman in charge found the foilowing peculiar name and address, neatly written out by the assistant : ‘Sami. Brown, trustee for George and Minnie Section. Academy of Natural Sciences.’ Somewhat surprised at the address, she asked to see the ledger from which it was copied. The ledger read : ‘Sami. Brown, trustee for Geo. and Min. Section. Academy of Natural Sciences.' The young woman had never studied either geology or mineralogy, but when the matter was explained to her she found that the word Section is not always a surname, and that ‘Geo.’ may be an abbreviation for something quite different from George.