Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-19

are a little bit nfraia to trust you with their
| secrets, especially inaregard to business mat
| ters?"
| Just let me tell you an incident and you
| can draw your own conclusions. had done
| large amount of correspondence for a
! prominent New York lawyer and had been
| trusted by him implicitly. In connection
| with the business he was looking after here
| he was associated with a firm Of lawyers
| and when II came to the last document "a
| be executed, which, by the way, was OF a
| most confidential nature, they remarked to
| him: You surely Will not give this to that
public stenograhpher7 Let our stenographer
| attend to it He9replied that he would
most certainly give It to the same stenogra-
pher who had done all his work so far, and
whom he would trust with anything, no mat
ter how confidential. He told me of the
circumstance, and l said l was surprised
that n lawyer would make such statement
] in regard to trusting a public stenographer,
| for said l, here am, in a position where
| l work for people from all over the country.
Were | to betray the confidence reposed in
me 1t would be known all over whereas I
might be the confidential stenographer of
| one person or firm, and should betray that
confidence in such a position the results
| would not be so far-reaching. | might add
that policy, il not endowed with principle,
would make a public stenographer more
careful of betraying confidence, but | can
not imagine any stenographer, in a public
or private position, for one moment dream
ing of hetraying so sacred a trust. Again, II
not for the sake of principle, how few of us
would like to have to remember what comes
to us every day In our work. | think we all
have enough to do in this world to attend to
our own affairs, and If we strictly attend
to them we will have little leisure left for
those of others"
"The majority of the stenographers at
hotels are women, are they not?'
MoNOPoLIZED BY WOMEN.
Eyes, you very seldom find a man in
position of this kind. The extraordinary
influx of women in all the avenues of COM
mercial life of recent years is particularly
marked in this calling. The fact is owing
to the surplus of educated women thrown
upon their own resources and to the pc
culiar adaptability Of women as amanuenses
Women learn stencgraphy and the manipu-
lation of the machine quicker and are more
tractable as Office assistants than men. They
can afford to work for less money than
men. In working for lees they are still
able to make more money in proportion to
the labor performed than they could get in
other walks of life open to them. A cosy
office and typewrting machine are more
conEenial to the female mind than kitchen,
the factory, or standing behind a counter
all day, showing goods and yelling 'C-a-s.hN
Tell me, If you please, in what other line
of business women can obtain higher sal
where a woman becomes especially expert
the question of sex disappears and she
commands for her services whatever man
would get under the same circumstances.
If sex has anything at all to do with 1t, the
difference is to her advantage. The women
engaged in this business are. as a rule,
honest, intelligent, industrious and fairly
we'll educated. In many cases they are
cultured and refined women who were born
to better things. The instances where they
are not quite as good as they might be are
not more numerous In proportion to the
whole number than among an equal number
of women in other walks of business life
There are a good many silly young girls
from the stenographic schools who regard
the business as a sort of a picnic-a ro-
mantle road to matrmony, as II were
There are young women who will never
stay in position long unless they think
there is an opening there for a matrimonial
connection. They sail around from place
to place on the lookout for a wealthy mash,
but-they are often disappointed One of
the most fruitful sources of friction between
the female stenographer and her employer
is the apparent inability of many women
to separate their personality from their
business. If the boss gets ratified an1
speaks sharply, it is received in the light
of personal insult The man of big affairs
has no time to waste upon preliminarcs, and
is frequently abrupt of speech. Some women
never get accustomed to this and-some get
right up and hunt for another job They
are looking for somebody who will treat
them as if they were the lady of the house.
AS most business men have to meet that
kind of woman as as they get home,
it Is very likely to pail upon the taste, you
know"
Don't some of your customers get comic
at times?" I asked.
''Very seldom. You see when a man
comes in with 5O-cent job and begins bust
ness with some remark about my beautiful
hair, or asks if anybody ever told me what
lovely eyes I have, | give him to understand
that the charge will be 75 cents which |
usually sets him to thinking. and he attends |
strictly to business. Some people don't COM |
plain about the extra charge. but-'there
are Others CHEYENNE BOB.
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