Party for Bill
"You should have seen the size of that cake! It was that big and it was decorated to look like a kitchen range and it had thirty-two candles put in circles where the burners would be!
"Why thirty-two candles ? Because Saturday was the thirty-second anniversary of the opening of my appliance store down on Broad Street. And what a party it turned out to be!
"Milly—that's my wife—arranged the whole thing, and was I ever surprised! Honest, I never knew I had so many good friends. Both my sons were there with their families, and my brother came all the way from Cleveland with his. A fellow never realizes how many nieces and nephews and grandchildren he has until he sees them all in one place at one time.
"What's that? Oh, no—it wasn't a family party one hundred per cent. A good many of the merchants down my way dropped into the store to shake hands. You know, people like Tom Everett, Ben Abrams and the others. And Milly saw to it especially that Joe Wilson would be there.
"Why Joe especially? Well, you see, this party was really a little more than just an anniversary celebration. Because as of this week, I'm turning the whole business over to my two boys—lock, stock and barrel—and Milly and I are heading up to the lake cottage to take life easy.
"And what does that have to do with Joe? I'll tell you. Back in the days when I first started in business, Joe Wilson was just starting in his business —as agent for the New York Life. Well, Joe used to stop at the store every once in a while just to talk about things in general, and I'll be doggoned if he didn't convince me before long that I ought to do some serious thinking about the future. There was Milly to be considered, the two kids who were just hardly out of their cribs, and the business which wasn't on too firm a footing.
"To make a long story short, it was the life insurance Joe got me to start with then—and add to later—that helped more than anything else to make the party as happy for everyone as it turned out to be.
"Wouldn't have been complete without Joe, though. You ought to go over to his office and talk with him one of these days.
"No, come to think of it, you'd better ask for Joe Wilson, Junior. The one I'm talking about is getting all set to retire himself in a couple of months.
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