The record-union., 1896-08-02
TALKS TO GIRLS.
Hints Of Value to Young WOmen in
Business.
Advice in Regard to Taking Care of
Money and Storing the Mind
With knowledge.

Especial Correspondence of Record Union.)
PORTLAND orr. July 29-The
same dear old lady who was talking
of country girls leaving their homes
broached the subject again, but in a diff
ferent way. She said: "I've noticed
that the average country girl who goes
to the city seeking employment and is
lucky enough to secure it, generally
loses her head after the lapse of a
few months, and goes in recklessly for
all sorts of eXtravagances. The dress
she wears to the office must be just
as fine as that worn by my lady of
leisure, her room must be just as
dainty and her pleasures just as ex-
rensive. At the end of the month the
salary is all gone, and very likely she
is skulking down the back streets to
her work in order to avoid a persistent
creditor or two, who are unfeeling
enough to insist upon being paid for
the new silk dress or the new big brass
piano lamp. She bought the latter be-
cause she saw one just like it at Mr.
Millionaire's house, when she went
there one day to take a dictation, when
that gentleman was too sick to appear
at the office.
Nov, l don't object to girls having
pretty things" continued the old lady,
"and cultivating a taste for them
all beautiful things have a refining in
fuence on one, but the taste must be
INDUCED in to a moderate degree and
cultivated according to the means, not
the inclination.
It's the reckless expenditure, the
very thoughtlessness of youth, that
find fault with. It's a poor argument
for girl to say to herself I don't have
to save. I'm young and strong and
healthy, and have no one dependent
on me for support. I like pretty things;
1 earn a good salary; why should 1
not indulge myself a, little bit? There's
time enough to save later on All, my
dear girls, this is just where the folly
OF all your reasoning shows itself
Have you never thought that sooner or
later rainy day is sure to come? II
may not Overtake you in the heyday
of your youth and strength, but will
creep upon you when the first flush of
your youth is gone and your strength
is waning. Then it is that the full
realization of the folly and reckless
overwhelming force
Sickness may come, the good posi-
tions you brag of so boastingly and
feel so secure OF may be taken from
you, and the working girl alone can
realize what this means. Then it is
that you will wish you had put by
little each month.
Try it, girls, and you will never
regret it. True, you may have to cut
off a few little pleasures and indul-
sences, but you will have a certain sat
isfaction in the thought that it is a
duty we'll performed and one you will
never regret.
There is something else I would like
to talk to you young people about, and
that is learn to be a good listener. To
become a good listener is a cultivated
art It's as much OF an accomplish
ment as it is to be good conversa-
tionalist. A good listener always learns
something from the stories at hand for
she waits patiently for the conclusion
and listens intelligently to the com
ments upon it. In this way she broad
ems her mentality. In time the good
listener becomes an accomplished talk
er and an intelligent woman.
'To be a good tallzer one need not
necessarily be informed on a startling
variety of subjects, but she must be
we'll informed upon the principal top
les of the day, and in order to do this
girl must read. There are always
some spare minutes in the busy day
when you can get away all by your
self; don't waste these precious mo-
ments in foolish idleness; have a good
newspaper or magazine at hand and
read its pages carefully, digesting
every word. Never mind if the article
isn't finished just then, but when you
return to your work think over intelli-
gently and carefully what you have
read, and at your first opportunity slip
away and finish it. There are so many
wonderful things going on in this
nineteenth century Of ours, so many
good books and magazines and news
papers sold at such ridiculously low
prices, that I don't see any excuse why
every girl should not be well informed
on all the topics of the day
BESELENA