Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-06-08
The HoMsLY GIRLS DAY.
handsome Typewriters No Longer Popu.
Lar In the Metropolis.

eight or ten young women ON the benches
n the outer Office, waiting To see the
proprietor, Of whom they want to gel
employment as pupils or secretaries to
business men. When he comes in you
will always notice that he sees them
without regard TO the order in which
they came, picking out one here and one
there, taking them into his office each by
herself until only one or W. remain or
the seats. II you studied the subject
day after day you would o discover
that the more progressing a young
woman is the less time she has 10 wait,
and that it is always the plain ones who
are left to the last. Poverty, especially
when it entails the necessity for a young
girl TO 60 out and earn her living, is hard
and bitter, and many a time and oft you
will see that the homely girls, left sitting
on those benches have unfathomed the
proprietor's secret and are biting their
lips and even suffering moisture to food
their eyes as they note how certainly a
beautiful face and stylish attire command
attention.
The other day / went to that school,
and / witnessed the neglect Of o plain
girl who evidently found it difficult to
conceal her modification. l was in the
room with the proprietor when he asked
her to come in.
II suppose there is no use my asking
you, SIR" she said; shut since l have
waited / viii say that I am seeking oc-
cupation as a typewriter"
do you understand the businessl" be
asked.
AZ am said TO be very rapid" said she;
81 have been five years at the calling"
''Wil you accept SIS a week TO act as
s~tenogrspher and IN ewriter TO vice
president so and so VI the oil conn.,
panyY'
Her eyes changed color. They bright.
ened almost into Il lme.
Fifteen dollar ~ she said; 81 only
got $40, sir, and then only for a year
before the firm ] was with failed"
The arrangement or bargain was
quickly made. Before she left the girl
asked, "Win you tell me why you saw
me last though l was the first TO Gomez"
'I'd rather not" said the employer.
'Did all the others ecu places!" she
asked.
mo one but you was taken" he said.
She went away wondering. When she
bad gone the proprietor turned to me and
said: THAT is both a sensitive and a SEN
sible girl. She thought she was left X
the last because her face and dress are
plain. She is right. This is the day Of
the homely girl. The beauty, the belle,
toe dressy girl, are all at a discount in
this business, and we have resolved never
to employ another pretty girl if we can
get a homely one
There's no mystery about it," he con-
tinued. 'It's plain business. There are
now 5000 II 1000 girls at work in
mems offices down town, and while then
entree into commercial LIFE is always
spoken of as a feminine revolution, the
truth is that it has created a social stir
deeper than either one sex has felt.
When girls were first made use of on 40
count OF their quickness with their hands,
the suitability Of the work and the low
price at which they could be got by
reason of the large number seeking work,
the craze was for pretty girls. Every
man wanted a belle to sit a. lis desk and
take down his letters and memoranda.
1t was natural. There were plenty of
pretty girls, and who on earth does
not prefer beauty TO plainness. Men who
are in my business naturally tried to get
only pretty pupils and beautiful adopts.
We scanned the girls dresses, judged
them by their stylishness and insisted on
general att~ractiveness. Ii we ever took
up a plain girl we were apt 10 be sorry
for IL, for we had bard work 10 place
her. Now all that is changed. / can
show you scores a letters in which bust
ness men ask me not 10 send a pretty girl.
In fact, the only offices where we can
place n pretty girl are very large mes
where tine employer chooses the girl and
details her TO go with others in some de-
partment or 10 assist a male chief clerk
or private secretary. Those and the
ofices OF the bachelors ia business are
the only places where we a get work
for pretty girls.
.'The reason is as plain as the nose on
your face he continued; ''the wives
have interfcrcd. Every married man is
visited at his Office Ly his wife more or
less frequently. IL she finds him elbow
TO elbow or face to face with a pretty
coquette every time she comes, she is
certain to make life more or less unpleas-
ant for him. Some in such
cases take it out at home as the saying
goes, but / have had men tell me that
their wives were forever popping in on
them and practically never missed a day
without a call at their offices. These
business men, nearly all men pick up g
bouquet, or box OF candy, OF some little
kniekknsck now and then % gladden.
the life Of the girl at their elbow.
Imagine the state Of the wife who finds
that the flowers she sees on her husbands
desk were put there by him when he has
told her ten thousand times that he has
hated flowers from infancy! Oh, MOI
there Is no show for the pretty girl in
business In New York today. Those who
got places long ago are now being crowded
out and no new ones are now taken on
-"Clara Belle in New Orleans Times
Democrat.
A Baby Beavers Dam.