Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-10-12

| spondence of the manager, keeping track
of the home and foreign business, and SUI
perintended the force of typewriters in the
once Then. through the illness of
member OF her family. she was obliged to
be absent about three weeks, during which
time the young man who substituted for
her received pay at the rate of S12J per
month. She heard of 1t when she came
back, and she and the manager had a lit
tie talk She is getting SIS per week now
and every one Is happy
That sounds almost too good to be true"
murmured the Bookkeeper. well. | am
always glad to hear of others prospecting.
My turn may come"
There are Others" announced the De-
partment Clerk THE Powers That Re
are mourning aloud over the crying pity
| 1t is to waste fair pay for equal work upon
mere woman, and 1t looks now as though
the time would come when the girl clerks
will be discharged in shoals. I'm in under
civil service, but my senator's term ended
last year, and have no pull with his sue
cessor. So when the sword falls-the del
uge."
Not Logical Conclusions.
and have you been reading the letters
on the subject in the papers IateIy?" cried
the Artist. Did you see the one where the
writer said"
That even If women made as good clerks
as men (Which he didn't admit it would
still be Objectionable to have the depart
ments run by female labor and then two
paragraphs further on the work is in most
cases so simple that any woman of aver
age intelligence can easily perform it Yes,
L read it, said the Department Clerk. at
was a fair sample of them all. And
are taught that men have a monopoly on
logical argument
LAS a matter of fact" declared the Tyne
writer Girl, II really think that the clerical
force in the departments should be COM
posed entirely of women L mean more
especially the positions paying from $50
to 500 per month. Let the men be heads
of divisions and have the highest places
it will Soothe the tender masculine spirit
but let all the rest be women. You see. a
girl doing clerical work outside the gov
eminent almost never gets over so
month, whereas a man in business rarely
gets so little. He may start on less, but
he is in line for promotion and goes On
up in the business. That is rarely the case
with a girl. Very few women occupy any
but the least profitable places in the bust
ness world. On the other hand il the gov
eminent by doing the ordinary clerical
work girl earns enough to live on COM
fortably and something to spare (Which is
necessary added the Typewriter Girl
parenthetically, Qor very few have not
others to look out for, even though they do
not proclaim it from the house tops). And
that is better than she can do In any thing
else except a profession.
But it seems a crying waste of oppor-
tunity for man to settle down into O gov
ernment clerkship and stay there all his
days. There are so many other things
that he could do and in nine cases ont OF
ten would rather do. But they set gov
eminent place and it makes them lazy.
They say 4 have this and 1t is sure. In
anything else it would be hard 10 get a
foothold, and l might not be successful in
the end And they move heaven and
earth to hold their places, and live year
after year doing the same thing day after
day, and never getting more than the FLOOD
or $1,000 that they started at worked
up to after the first few years. And they
call that living. The average girl can't
help herself, but for a man to stop short
like that before he has fairly begun, T. it'll
the whole world of life and work to choose
from and to be a part of - the Type
writer Girl broke off
1T has always seemed to me one Of the
most pitiful things in life said the Art