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jTHK smile that won
Mildred Caroline Goodridge.
Sidney Ware started out in the
business world with one sole asset.
It was a smile. It was -true that he
possessed a pair of especially bright,
merry eyes to abet the effects of a
laughing remark or a cheerful greet
ing, and the general expression of his
face was frank and friendly. Even
in his dull and depressed moments,
however, Sidney maintained that
inevitable never-say-die-somewhere-the-sun-is
shining cast of counten-
Tied Hand and Foot.
ance, against the deuce-may-care-every-thing-is-going-wrong
scowl of
the slipshod pessimistic clerk who
disgruntled everybody he came in
contact with.
Sidney smiled his way through the
shipping room of the big merchan
dise house of Angell & Co., and left
its foreman disconsolate when there
came an office promotion. Inside of
a week he had even the icy, stately
chief stenographer in a tolerant
mood, and the typewriters were aH
in love with him. Two years later
some one had to fill the place of an
old veteran who sold visiting country
trade. Within two months Mr. An
gell came to Sidney, who had se
cured that position.
"See here, Ware," he observed,
"facts are facts, and you have dou
bled the transient trade. How do you
do it?"
Sidney smiled in a modest, depre
cating way, and tried to sidetrack the
burden of compliment by telling a
clean, humorous story that set the
usually majestic millionaire shaking
with laughter.
"You are too good a man for a sec
ond grade position," decided Mr. An
gell. "Report for a managerial place
tomorrow, Ware."
"It makes me sick!" observed
Claude Griffiths, head salesman, a
twelvemonth, later "that eternal
grin "of young Ware. Why, I say
it's undignified, it isn't business; it's
it's "
"It's caught Miss Delia Angell, just
as it has the whole of us," chirped
winsome Nettie Darling, typewriter,
who overheard Griffiths. Sidney is
everybody's friend and tries to be,
and you'je 'Old Glooms,' and that's
why Miss Angell joined the golf club
just to meet a genuine smiling young
man once in a while."
"Oh, she did, eh?" snarled the
jealous rival. "Well, I'll bet old An
gell doesn't know it. Why, he'd fire
the upstart in a second, if be ever
even suspected that Ware was mak
ing eyes at his only child and heir
ess." It was dangerous pleasure, sensible,
thoughtful Sidney Ware realized, the
court he could not help paying to the
sweetest girl he ever met Still he
could not resist the attraction. It
seemed as if their souls mingled
when he was with Delia Angell. He
was earnest, wholesome-hearted,
happy-spirited, she unostentatious,
lovely and genuine. They were like
two ingenuous children playing in ''3
