Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-01-14
ABOUT THE GIRL WHO WORKS
How She Does Not Always
Get Along Easily.
STORE GIRLS AND LADYS MAIDS
And the Young Lady Who
Runs the Typewriter.


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are not only supposed to be in the swim,
river in which all the little crafts float,
that quiet in everything is counted best
form. This was told to me very sedatcly
the other day, and to ii was added the
facts that it was thought that in time
the use of quiet colors and quiet words
would induce good manners. This may
be true, but certainly the quiet colors or
quiet words have not appeared as yet.
WHEN FAIR WOMAN SHOPS.
During the Christmas holidays all
women were free and equal-free and
equally behaved in their conduct; they
pushed and skirmished; they let spring
doors fly on other women and they bat
tied over bargains like hyenas. | never
saw hyena over bargain myself; !
never saw hyena trying to get ten
yards of cashmere for 81, but | have
seen women at the bargain counter, and
] don't believe the hyena would be more
fierce or worse behaved. My sympa-
thies have been for long time with
women on this side of the counter, but
never with the women who ara like the
hyenas. No shop girl can, by any pos
sibility, be too impertinent for them, but
it is rather hard that she should wreak
her vengeance on the inoffensive ones,
on the women who have no fight in
them, who have every determination to
be civil, and who would not say rude
word because of respect for themselves.
But with few exceptions, the average
shop girl treats every woman alike;
that is, as if they were thieves; as if it
were her duty to punish them as far as
possible, and as if every decent rag they
had on them had been stolen directly
from her.
A HINT FOR SHOP GIRLS.
| feel sorry for shop girls, who stand
for hours, who breathe foul air, and
who have so little pleasure, but feel
less sorry when think how they re-
fuse to fit themselves to be good ladies'
maids or first-class nursery governesses.
A lady's maid seldom has difficult life,
is usually well treated, can keep herself
looking we'll, is well fed, and if she
wants TO obtain knowledge of hair
dressing, or of keeping gowns in order,
it adds just so much to her value, and
she can make just so much more money.
And yet these girls stand behind the
counter, many Of them are half starved,
thinly clad and have miserable homes.
have no sympathy whatever for those
who draw line between the shop girl
and lady's maid; l consider one posi-
ton quite as dignifled as the other, and
If had to be one or the other, should
choose the latter.
GIRLS AS sTENoGRAPUERs,
There have come to me great many
letters asking about positions as
stenographers and typewriters, and q
girl seems to think if she has taken q
course In some college, she can imnedi
ately work into position where she
can get not less than S25 a week, where
she will wear o silk frock, and work
from 10 In the morning until in the
afternoon. Now, regret very much to
throw bucket of water on this beauti-
full dream, but about one out of every
100 stenographers is q success, and the
other SO are bowling and distinct fail
ures. Having at various times had
some of the 100, my experience count:
for something, and | am going 10 give it
TYPES OF MODERN sTENoeRAPHERs.
The newest young woman is generally
very willing to not only do your work
for you, but TO furnish you with ideas
She tells you how rapidly she writes
and expects that you will not object tC
her willingness to supply you with iacA
Of brains; she seems jewel to you
Later in the day you conclude she i!
either paste or jewel in the rough, for
although she takes your notes dowr
with such rapidity, she can't read I
single one of them. You have wasted
your time, the printer is waiting fol
your copy, and the devil is to pay. Thl!
is type number one. Type number two
has serious objection 10 your debating
anything that she does not consider
grammatical. You may desire to BIZ
just as ungrammatical as you please
you may be paying your money to bt
| Just the reverse of grammatical for 1
purpose; but she does not propose tt
encourage you in your weakness, anC
when your copy reaches you your dia
lect story is written out In the fines
Boston grammar, and no editor would
pay cent for it. Type number three
is YOUNG AND INNOCENT,
at least, she looks that way; but she in
terrupts every other sentence to tell vol
where she has been, and about til,
young man who took her, and then sh,
says, as you dictate just as you talk
that she wonders the newspapers pay
you anything for ii; you wonder tina
the doctor did not chloroform her whei
she was born; but, having some of you
original breeding left in you, you dom
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coming to her office before II o'clock
you have liking to begin your work a
$50; she thinks this lie funny in you
and you think she will see the poor
house before she dies.
THE WOMEN WHO SUCCEED.
Now, the women who succeed d
stenographers are the women who havi
sufficient amount of brains to use TO
their customers good, and who do no
want to quarrel about spelling gray
with an or an q, without having
violent discussions; and are willing K
give you kind of paper, and the kline
of treatment which business woman
gives to another. You pay just so muci
money for just SO much work, ant
when you don't get it You are beinl
robbed. If you can't dictate properly
then the stenographer has the right t
charge you more than for the woman
who dictates with ease, and can do {
certain amount of work in certain
amount of time. Give good pay TO
good work is my motto in this, but, MI
friends, you can't always get the goot
work. Just now l am fortunate enough
to have it. But it will be just my lucl
to have the girl go and get married, anc
have somebody else take care of her ,ant
l should not blame her one bit, for il
these days, when grip is rampant, anC
EVERY woMAN's BACK ACHES
as if it were going to break, the only
desire Is to have man 10 take care O