The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-25

that the homely girls, left sitting on those
benches, have unfathomed the proprietors se-
cret and are biting their lips and even suffering
moisture to flood their eyes as they note how
certainly beautiful face and stylish attire
command attention. The other day l went to
that school, and / witness cd the neglect OF a
plain girl who evidently found IT difficult to con-
ceal her modification. was IN the room with
the proprietor when he asked her to come in.
II suppose there is no use my asking you.i
SIR" she said; ;@sshtt since Ey@avS waited will
say that am seeking occupation as type
.'Do you understand the business9" he asked
'tI am said to be very rapid, said she; II
have been FIVE years at the calling"
'sWill you accept $15r a week to act as
stenographer and type-writer 10 Vies-preslGent
So-and-so of the - oil companyT
Her eyes changed color. They brightsned
almost into fame.
Fifteen dollarsm she said; II only got ten,
sir. and then only for year before the firm
was with failed" ~
The arraneementor or bargain was quickly made.
Before she lett the girl asked. viii you tell me
why you saw me last, though was the first to
comet"
I'D rather NOS said the employer.
did all the others secure places?' she asked.
.'No one but you was taken," he said.
She went away wondering When sho had
gone the proprietor turned to me and said:
THAT is both sensitive and sensible girl.
She thought che was left to the last because her
face and dress are plain. She is right This is
the day of the homely girl The beauty, the
belle, the 6ressy girl ali at discount IN this
business, and we have resolved never to employ
another pretty girl If we can get homely one.
There's mystery about it, he continued
ITS plain business. There now six or seven
thousand girls at work in mems offices down
town, and while their entree into commercIa.
life is always spoken of as feminine revoutionl
the truth is that it has created social stir
deeper than either one sex has felt. When girls
were first made use of on account of their quick
with their hands, the suitability of the
work and the low price at which they could be
got by reason of the large mum ber seeking work,
the craze was for pretty girls. Every man
his letters and memora nda. 1t was natural.
There were plenty of pretty girls. and who on
earth does not prefer beauty to plainness9 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
stylshness, and insisted general attractive.
ness Ii we ever took up plain girl We were
apt to be sorry for it, for We had hard work TO
place her. Now. ali that is changed. | can show
you scores of letters in which business men ask
me not TO send a pretty girl. In fact, the only
offices where we can place pretty girl are very
large ones. where the employer chooses the girl
and details her to go with others in some de-
partment or to assist male chief clerk or
private secretary. Those and the Off
GERS of the bachelors in business are
the only places where we can get
as the nose on your face" he contiuued; 1.-THE
wives have intertered. Every married man is
visited at his Office by his wife more or less fire.
Quently. If she finds him elbow to elbow or
face to face, with pretty coquette every time
she comes, she is certain to make life more or
less unpleasant for him Some women in such
cases take is out At home, as the saying goes,
but ] have had men tell me that their wives
were forever popping in on them and practical
ly never missed day without call at their
Offices. These business men. nearly all men
pick M bouquet. or box of candy, or come
little knick -knack now and then, to 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 th re by him
when he has told her ten thousand times that
he has hated flowers from infancyi Oh no;
there is no show for the pretty girl in business
in New York to-day. Those VINO got places
long ago are being crow wded out. aud no new ones
are now taken on. CLARA BELLE.