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It is worth your while to know a little of how we get our writing-papers, envelopes, knickknacks, engraving, etc., etc. We "make" 'em. Now don't set it down that we've got a big water-power paper-mill up-stairs and boiling cauldrons of sealing-wax. No; we haven't. We have a busy work-room full of machinery, twenty to forty people in it all the year round. That room and the things and people in it keep us supplied. Almost all the paper comes to us "flat" from the mills. We cut it and fold it. We make the finer envelopes. Common ones we buy. We are going to get them made, and have them uncommon. [What a paltry saving it is to cut them so low and thin! What's a cent on a pack? you cheap envelopes shortly. notion of business to make the utmost profit on every turn of a nickel in such a store as this.] gum them so We'll show It isn't our We should like to take you through that work-room. It's a dirty place up next to the roof. What with ink on hands and arms and faces, and whirling printing machines all black with it, paste all over, and rattle of work, queershaped knives that push through solid piles of paper as though they liked it, horrible instruments, presses that take delight in wringing water out of the dryest of paper-isn't it odd that the snowiest white, the purest cream and the daintiest touches of color come from that horrible place? And yet there are bits of the work you would like to see. The engravers take their light from over the opal roof of the Transept. What eyes they have! The printers swing the balls with a seemingly careless hand; but the die comes down exactly right. Did you know that rich illumination of monogram and crest is the work of a camel's-hair point and the hand and eye of an artist? The blacking of mourning borders is toilful brush-work. Quick? But think how much there is to do. These women are folding envelopes. See their fly The ing fingers! There's an open boxful. corners are square; the lines are true; the edges round. We are taking off the cover and showing the work that underlies one little luxury. Work, work, work. It is also bread and butter and meat and drink. What is life but work! Nobody knows the work and planning, the buying and fitting together, the watching and waiting, it takes to keep this little part of our business going. It pays though. We count up every cent of the cost of every stroke. We know what everything comes to. It pays to do the work ourselves. You see it pays. You buy a quarter-ream as it comes from the mill. You expect the outside quire to be partly waste. You pay for five quires. You get substantially four-and-a-half. Not so when it comes from our work-room. Every sheet in the package is perfect and clean. The manufacturing world is a lot of cheats; the mercantile world is another. Exceptions now and then. The rule is dirt for pepper, glucose for sugar, shoddy for wool, cotton for linen, something cheaper for something good. We can only get out of the rut by watching and doing a part of the work ourselves. You are willing to take your chance of being cheated in paper perhaps. Cheating isn't all. Fashions in paper and paper-usages change. The work-room changes with them if handy by; if a long way off there would always be a stock of old stuff to sell. To get fresh biscuit go to the bakery. In short we provide for every sort of paperuser papers of every grade, in every shape, in every condition, for every use. Engraving belongs to the paper-business: engraving of visiting-cards, invitations, addresses, monograms, crests, letter-heads, billheads, business-forms, etc.; engraving and printing slow, tedious, delicate, dangerous work. A slip of the tool or print may be borne; but who, and whose friends, will forgive a slip of propriety! Not everybody knows-the proper place to keep your plate is here. We have an indexed place for it. Keep it yourself and let it rust and lose it, if you'd rather. Costs nothing here; and is handy. There's more to tell; much more. But we've taken you through the work-room. Come again another day. |