Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-12-15

Does a pretty face help the industrial
woman?
That was the question under discus
sion n few nights ago among a party OF
men seated at a table on a roof garden.
and between the sips Of ginger ale, cob
blers and punches there we're some per-
tinent remarks interjected, says the \.
Y. Herdld.
Certainly il does. argued the young
man, with an air Of conviction that
failed TO impress any one but himself.
"Who wants to see an ugly or even
homely face every time he looks mp
from his desk? ! don't and no other
man does, and it's not pleasant to have
ones thoughts broken up when dictat-
ing letters by a plain, angular type
writer saying: Excuse me, will you
please repeat? One can forgive even
that when a pretty face smiles at you as
you upward gaze
II, too, like bright, attractive women
about an office" said another. "Ot
course it helps "a oma When did
beauty ever fail TO gain a place or fail
to get more salary out of a man?'
This last sentiment was from the lips
of a man who had married his type
writer for love and not for the beauty
of her face or form.
well, I'll tell YOU a little experience, "
broke in the treasurer OF a w~ell-known
bank note company. Its a good joke
on our president, too, and will illustrate
the point in question. We were short
handed in the Office and wanted an
other stenographer. As usual, we had
examined dozens Of women for the DO
sition, but none filled the bill.
Finally there appeared a young
woman who would attract attention
anywhere--not that she was dressy. for
hes raiment was plain but trim-hut
simply by the beauty of her face.
"Now. | am not a believer in beauty
about an office. 1t has an attractive
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for the place and her references were SC
( good that l decided TO leave the matter
to the president. He talked with her,
but being a careful married man, had
his doubts about the wisdom of engag-
ing her, but the pretty face was too
strong for even his conservatism.
so he mumbled. 4 do like 10 see a
pretty face, even in business hours, and
She was engaged and reported next
morning. She was a little slow, but
we thought il was because she was
strange to the Office. The second day
there was no improvement and the next
likewise.
Then came a rush of correspondence.
Miss Beauty was ~foundered. She failed
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us could find j, in his heart TO rebuke
her; the pleading eyes OF violet hue set
in a face so fair were safeguards against
the well-lnerited reproofs that Il girl Of
less personal attraction would have re-
ceived with promptitude. But the end
came in about a week. We had occa-
sion TO write n letter to a rival concern
and AZ the same time to q new Gus
toner, submitting designs for a very
large order.
BY this time our bookkeeper was
badly smitten on Miss Beauty and they
were going TO some entertainment to-
gether. | suppose she was making
eyes at him or he at her. At al events,
she mixed those letters up and we lost
orr order and got credit from our rivals
for being grossly careless, all because
two old men had been impressed with a
pretty face.
The girl? Oh, yes. We gave her a
letter saying she had worked for IT'S, out
you can't get anything inside that Office
o but a plain, matter-of-fact type
writer. The president wouldn't look at
Cleopatra If she came in. and the book
keeper-well, he shuts his eyes when
he rides on the elevated for very fear Of
beauty"