The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-03
DESK STUDIES FOR GIRLS:
MONEY AFFAIRS.
Y. PERSONAL ACCOUNTS AND
MONEY AFFAIRS.
The Need of Proper Training.

The Need of Proper Training.
Girls should be taught business-all
girls. By business we do not neces-
sarily mean the raechanism Of banking
or the causes of stock fluctuations or
foreign exchanges. or the production,
transportation and marketing OF pro-
ducts. Everything nowadays has in 1t
the element of business. The business
training most needed by girls is of q
more fundamental character-training
in prOmptness and order, in making re-
ceipts and expenses harmonic. in an
ticipating financial contingencies, in
ordinary business customs and usages,
IN the common fOrmalities Of law and
in carrying a purse.
Much Of this cannot be taught by
lectures. Lectures, as a rule. only ag-
gravate the conditions. So long as
society orders that the purse shall be
carried in the left hand with palm up
ward thumb on clasp and elbow grace
fully curved at an angle Of 100 degrees,
leaving the right hand wholly free to
attend to the various other duties for
which two hands were originally or
dained just so long will trolley, rail-
way and other public information bu
Teaus be required to keep fully
equipped lost and found departments
Tor the return OF purses.
Girls ought to know how to write a
receipt. how to make out a check, the
wording of a prOmissory note and its
legal significance and such other bust
ness forms as are of everyday use.
These things may not have in them the
same element Of culture that is to be
found in Dante's Divine Comedy or
in BrOwning's Dramatic Idylls," and
their study IS in no danger whatever
of becoming a fad, but an intelligent
grasp Of these business affairs will give
girls a self-confidence which may help
them over many discouTaging and en-
barrassing situations.
The Use of Time.
The table Of time for girls is the same
as it is for boys. 1t has sixty minutes
to the hour, and sixty minutes without
something accomplished is an hour lost.
Gladstone is reported to have said
that thrift of time will repay you in
after life with a usuTy of profits be
yOnd your most sanguine dreams, and
that the waste of it viii make You
dwindle alike in Intellectual and in
moral stature, beyond your darkest
reckOnings." Habits of Incidence, list
lessness and prOcrastinatiCn once firmly
fixed cannot be suddenly thrown off.
The women who are the most active in
church and other charities and in all
affairs concerning the best good of the
community are, as a general rule. the
best house and hOmekeepers. Idleness
and indifference never count unless in
4. negative sense. Give a business girl
a moment in which to write a letter and
she will dash it off at once and say the
right thing in the most pungent way;
give a leisurely idle girl a day to do
the same and the chances are that she
will put it off until next week. There
are momentum and a buoyancy in
active life which carry everything be-
fore them and make for success. There
is no excuse for idleness. There are
always a hundred and one things I'm
done in even the best regulated homes.
The Use Of Money.
Girls who are not earning salary or
wages in outside employment should
have a definite weekly or monthly al
lOWance. 1t is taken for granted. Of
course, that they earn this at home.
IGleness should never be rewarded or
paid for by the month. In matters of
this kind girls and boys should be on