The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-23

hand and typewriting, and today, as a
/ rule, they do more acceptable Office
work than do the average men.
There are SO schools where stenog
raphy and typewriting are taught in
/ New York and &c in Brooklyn. At most
! of them the school year is divided into
/ three terms of ten weeks each. Many
/ of the schools advertise to teach stu
| dents in one term, and go so far as TO
/ guarantee places to pupils at the end of
/ that time. This is absurd. The girl
who begins to work at the elusive lit
| tie pot hooks with a vision of good
salary at the end Of three months de-
ludes herself. 1t requires much study to
master shorthand, and most successful
! typewriter girls in the city testify
that the brightest cannot readily per-
feet themselves in less than three
terms. OF course, the length of time
necessary to become proficient depends
largely on the individual, but years
preparation is what the average girl
requires.
1t was not many years ago that the
idea of a woman receiving an education
that would fit her for business career
and enable her to earn her bread and
butter at better paying pursuits than
sewing, nursing, teaching a district
school, or other distinctly feminine oc-
cUpations, was received with a dersive
on this question is largely due to the
typewriter girl. She has proved with
satisfaction to the business world that
accuracy, punctuality and capability
are not questions of sex, but of train
ing.
Typewriter girls are not well paid,
but they receive more for their ser
vices than do shop girls, cashiers, or
seamstresseS, and they live much freer
physical and mental development. The
average salary of the typewriter girl
is So a week though in exceptional
cases she may earn from $40 10 S35
weekly.
A great many typewriter girls have
chances, through their employers, to
make money outside of their salaries.
Particularly is this true of those en-
ployed in Wall street offices. They Of
ten get points from writing the brok-
ers' letters, and make some very sue
cessful deals. 1t is Gaid that one young
woman has profited $4,000 by buying
stocks and cOntenting herself with sell
ing at a slight advance. Many
mother today finds herself with little
home in the suburbs, in her old age, as
the result of her typewriter girls sue
cessful speculations. Some people have
an idea thai the typewriter girl is a
frivolous creature VINO gets through
with her work so that she can draw
her pay, which she spends for cheap
finery, and that she is ready to flirt
with every man who comes along and
to marry the first one VINO asks her.
This is not true. These girls, if they
receive their business education at q
really first-class institution. imbibe
with their studies the knowledge of
how to meet a man on strictly business
grounds. and learn not to expect those
countesies that make up SO much of
social life. They learn that success
means always being in ones place,
always giving the closest attention TO
even the smallest duties, always being
amiable, gentle hammered and neat
1t is an undisputed fact that the
typewriter girl has revolutionized the
offices of this city. They are people
who hold that the mere fact of wom-
an doing work for which she is paid in
money takes something away from her, /
and that men do not feel the same
toward her. When asked if this was
true, a man who employs 80 steno-
graphers, all girls. in his offices, re-
piled most emphatically:
NO; the man who says that is a cad !
"a Snob. / used to employ all men IN I
my office, and it was by accident that
1 changed TO girls. One day one of my |
boys secured a better place. l had the
greatest confidence in him and asked |
him to recommend someone who he /
felt sure could do the work satisfac- |
torily. To my amazement he recon- !
mended his sister. What have a girl |
in this Officer 1 exclaimed. Never !
He said: I'm sure you would get
more comfort out Of her than you say |