Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-17

. pioy, and with each one wherever find them
 employed4 They care nothing about busi- ness. yours or mine, or any ones. They de- monstrate this in every possible way. No matter how you may be rushed at given time, they will not stay one minute after the or ten minutes work would complete that which they know 1t is of the utmost tmpor- tance to have done. If you ask them to do 30 of course they must do 1t, but it is safe to say that they will do it ungraciously and with scowling faces. I have had one girl that would do such thing oheerfully, and three that would not, and yet all four took days off and days of and made neither apol- ogy nor explanation. When I hired the first woman believed that woman had been mis- judged and that one sex had as much genius for diversified industry as another; now know that 1t Is not 50, and that female secre-
 taries will not long be endured in business
 When you employ woman you cannot crit- ieise, scold or caution her. She either leaves, breaks out in tears, or Hirts and Houts most impudently. Then. again, there is house talking; you can't do business with
 men in manly way if there is woman to write your letters or present in your efice
 Ninety-nine men in hundred smoke and swear. It's too bad, but it's the fact. They come into your office, and both you and they feel crippled.
 ''Other men tell me that it is their exre- rienoe that whenever they get really useful girl who takes an interest In the office life around her, she is certain to get married and leave her employers to break in a newcomer. We'll, it's half an hour late, 50 suppose my young woman isn't-no, by love, here she is. You're late, Miss Johnson"
 "Well, not exactly, am I!' the young we- maS replies very sweetly. "Yo1 did not come till half past nine o'clock on the day before. so thought as had little errand to do would risk your being here this morn ing"
 The reporter went out. and in another of- flee at which he called came upon @ young girl at her typewriting alons in her glory. With determination to have one other bat- tie in the eternal conflict of the sexes fought out in his presence, he told the young girl all that he had just heard in her sex's disfavor
 "Why," said she, ''a great deal of that gentlemsn's complaint comes from his ask ing too much. A great deal of 1t have of ten thought of myself. I have been In diff ferent offices nearly five years, and see that men make business the work of their souls as we'll as their heads and hands. They en- joy it. They love it. They lose their sex, their humanity and themselves in business and become like machines. Now I suspect that never can be with women-at least not with women employed by men. We cannot lose sight of our sex for an instant; we must always be on our guard and ready to recent light language or behavior on the part of the men around us. Need I explain thats It must be 80.
 GAS to our only doing what we have to do, I suspect that cannot be improved. Woman's ambition is to marry just as mans Is to get rich. While wa are at work it should be the aim of every girl to earn her wages and to give satisfaction by doing all that Is asked or required, but 1t would not do for a girl to attempt to do any more in 8 ha hA Sosk upon,' as you men say, ii she tried 1t in most offices. Besides, all there is of mans ambition proceeds from incentive, and 2 wo- maH has no incentive to do more than she is employed to do. She cannot aspire to rise to be salesman or drummer, or a partner ments. As for her pouting when she is asked to give five minutes extra time to her employer, all can say is that they must be very ungracious girls whom that man has employed. There are many girls in business offices, but don't know one who would not do anything within reason to help her em- ployer out of an extra pressure of work. "But If employers complain of women," said this bright girl, "so can the women complain of them. It does not increase a girls respect for the men for her to work with or for them. I never would have be- lieved that men were so rude and coarse as my experience in nearly half dozen offices ubA suOWu Gl6u hO DS 4AcJ dlS duAec as much given to gossip ss the average woman. Whenever they drop business for moment they are almost certain to do one of three things, either gossip about their friends down town and at the clubs, gossip about their clothing and mems fashion, or fall to telling stories that they have to relate in whispers, followed by sort of laughter that
 betrays the scandalous quality of what they
 have been saying. And then their slang, their habits with tobacco and their rough
 play with one another. Oh, myl It is said that women show only their best side to men. am sure they have no such side to conceal as the men have. I have seen few employers who were not unfeeling in their manners to the men under them. They nearly all swear, and a still greater number have liking for indelicacy and coarse fa- vored speech. I cannot put what think of men in better way than by saying that I have seen some good-hearted, manly gentle men, but never yet have seen one in whose company I have not thought 1t best never to relax my guard over myself"