Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-10
eyes as they note how certainly besuti.
full face and stylish attire command atten.


full face and stylish attire command atten-
ton.
The ether dsv went to that school snd
I witnessed the neglect Of plain girl VIII \
evidently found 1t difficult to conceal her
msrtifcation. l WAS in the room with the
proprietor when he asked her to come in
81 suppose there is no use my asking
you, SIR" she said, SHUT since hsgs
patton az a typewriter" AZ
"DoYou understand the ousiness7" be
asked.
81 am said to be very rspid," said shss
"I hsve been five Years at the calling. ~
"Will you accept SIS q week to aotAss
stenogrspher and typewriter to t1ce-
president so-snd-so Of the - on Com.
pany?" 81
Her eyes changed color. They bright
ened almost into fsue.
"Fifteen dollsrs7" she ssid: 81 only
got $40, sir, ana then only year before
the firm was with failed"
The arrangement or bargain wss quick
ly made. Before she left the girl asked:
"Will you tell me why you saw me last
though l was first to conner"
"Fd rather not" said the employer.
"DId an the others secure pl,cesf" she
asked.
"No one but you WAS taken" he said
She went away wondering. When she
had gone the proprietor turned to me and
said: "That is both sensitive and
sensible girl. She thought she was left
to the LAST because her face and dress are
plain. She is right. This is the dsy Of
the homely girl. The beauty, the belle,
the dressy girl, all are as q discount in
this business, and we have resolved never
to EMPLOY another pretty girl II we can
get a homely one.
"There's no mystery about it," ne con.
tinued. "It's plain business. There
are now 600 or 1000 girls at work IN
mems Offices down town, and while their
entree into COMMERCIAL life is always
spoken of IS 8 feminine revolution, the
trath Is thbt il has created social stir
deeper than either one sex has felt.
When girls we're frst made use of on &C
count of their quickness with their hands,
the suitability Of the work and the low
price at which riley csuld be got by rea-
son Of .he large number seeking work,
the craze was for pretty girls. Every
man wanted bell to sit st his desk and
take down his letters and
It was rstursl. Thers
wera plenty of pretty girls, and who on
earth does not prefer beauty to plainness9
Men who are in business naturally tried |
to get only pretty pupils and beautiful !
adopts. We scanned the girls dresses, |
judged them by their stvlishuess and in
sisted on general sttrsctiyeness. II we !
ever took up plsin girl we were spt 10
be sorry for it, for we hsd hard work to
place her. Now all that is chsnged. 1
can show you scores of letters in which
business men ask me not to send q pretty
girl. In fact the only Offices where we
;an place pretty girl are very large ones
where the employer chooses the girl
and details her to go with
other in some department or to assist
male chef clerk or private secretary.
Those and the offices o. bachelors in bus
ness are the only pisces where we can
get work for pretty girls.
"Mhe reason is as plain as the nose on
your face" he continued, 1.-THE wives
lave inteIfered. Every married man is
7isted st his O flee by bis wife more or
ess frequently. If she finds him elbow
20 elbow, or face to face with 9 pretty
,oquette every time she comes, she is
certain to make life more or less IN
pleasant for him. Some women in such
Asses 'take it out at home, as the saying
,oes, but 1 have had men tell
ne that their wives we're forever
popping in on them and practically never
missed a day without q call at their
fi;es. These business men, nearly all
men, pick I'D boquet or bcx of candy or
ONE little knick- knsck now and then to
.ladden the life Of the girl at their elbow.
imagine the state Of mind Of the wife
Vho finds that the flowers she
ees on her husbands desk
we're put there by him when he
as told her ten thousand times that he
as hated fowe re- from infsncyl Oh, no;
here Is no show for the pretty girl in
usiness in New York to-day. Those !
Tho got places long ago are being
rowded out and NO new ones are now
sken on"