Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-16
NEW BUSINESS WOMAN.
She Who Looks Well and is Charming
in Great Demand.

From The New York Sun.
The woman of fine presence and all
around social cleverness has a two-to-one
better chance in the business world lust
now than the trained specialist in what
ever department. Tactful, pleasing wo-
men, no matter how slight their technical
knowledge, are in demand and get tho
chance to extend their usefulness while
the speedy stenographers, efficient book
keepers and the like make barely living
wages. Many women who had no idea of
working have entered the Lists at the So
licitation of those who recognized their fit
ness.
In the beauty parlors frequented by
wealthy people the young person who re-
ceives the patrons does so with an inimit-
able air of interest and affabllity. Her
gown alone is worth going to see. Tho
arrangement of her hair. even the fashion
of her belt clasp, smacks of eXclusiveness
and inside knowledge as to modes. And
when she beckonS the attendant to whom
the customer is to be consigned it is with
quite the manner of performing benevo-
lent act
She is only paid servtor. The real mis-
tress. sheltered in her inside office, is
plainly dressed, Notwithstanding woman.
with perhaps neither the taste nor the in
clination to get herself up in gloriously i'm
pressiVe fashion. She had the ability to
build up properly exclusive clientele.
should be an attractive seneschal to pre-
side-a deputy mistress, free from care,
whose entire time could be devoted to look
ing agreeable.
In a sumptuous private sanitarium is an
other deputy mistress-a fine. dashing-
looking woman. who knows nothing what
ever of nursing, but has a prettily SYM
pathetic way about her that wins favor
with both guests and patients. She is al
ways exceptionally well dressed a prepoS-
sessing recommendation for the establish
ment. Women of tactful manners are en-
ployed by several of the great specialists TO
interview people when the doctor Is away.
1t is the thing now in the exclusive dress
making and Quitting establishments to
have the patrons received as though they
were guests. And woman with good
looks and social skill combined to come
forward and make customers feel at home
is a needed adjunct. She it is who shows
them samples and takes them around the
show cases. where costly gowns or waists
are on exhibition. All this is done as
though it mattered not a whit whether
an order was secured or not. When 1t
comes to costs and estimates another per-
son is called in and the woman who re-
ceives goes to welcome other guests. Social
diplomacy never played so important a
part in business now.
Sometimes the woman who is exception
ally clever, well dressed and sophisticated
is employed very pleasantly outdoor
companion by wealthy people who want
an instructed persons company, or by
young women who want comrade on
excursions which they may not make alone.
But the field in which the tactful woman
who is self-dependent finds best remunera-
ton as the handler of educational prop
ositions," promoter of mining stocks, real
estate Investments, savings bank securities
and like issues. The promoter for these
is of a very different caliber from the
women admirably employed to beat up
purchasers and demonstrate the efficacy OF
household and dry goods items.