The San Francisco call., 1903-12-06

OF golden shekels the wrong way should
she sulk and make it known to all that
to-morrow's bread is an uncertain
quantity?
All. no: not this girl. Perhaps that
v Ould have been considered quite the
proper caDer a few years back, but in
this age and generation the essentially
important thing is to remember to keep
your troubles to yourself. And as TO
look at her, no one would ever so much
as dream that she and Mr.. Worry were
or ever had been intimate friends, and
that Mr.. Want had called several times
when the weather was cold and pride
high.
And one reason for this change is
that so man. women are standing
shoulder to shoulder with men, and the
time has long since passed when it was
considered a burning disgrace to earn
bread and butter and perhaps a bit of
jam honorably rather than to drain the
family Golfers TO the dregs and nightly
fall on your knees and devoutly pray
that the expenses may be lessened by
some kind chap coming along in the
very nick Of time.
That may be all very well and good,
but somehow the attic with a cherries
hearth and an empty cupboard looks
good beside il. And here is where Miss
Business Lady makes her strong point.
An attic, be IL ever so mean, does not
tell stories and these days il has come
10 be a recognized fact that good
clothes are often worn to cover up
poverty.
The girl who works is just like any
other girl and she dearly loves all the
pretty furbelows and the dainty moth
ings that women wear, but she simply
can't afford them, and even if she
could, she is generally supplied With
enough plain. ordinary, common sense
10 understand the eternal fitness of
things.
But mark you, she knows as well
as you or the next one that shabby
garments no longer stand for anything
but plain inability. or worse yet, i'll
health. They don't even stand for
womanly virtue or native talent as
they did in the good old days gone
by. and strange as it may seem to
those blessed with good old fashioned
ideas. the poorly clad girl is invariably
the one who goes wearily on her way
answering this, that and the other adj
vertisement and finding no enjoy
ment.
Now Mr.. Skeptic. even though you
shake your head and mutter, it's an
absolute fact. And you, Mrs. wife-of-
the Business Man, you may smile and
say foolish" but use your eyes a bit
the very next time you visit your
husband in bis sanctum- m-sanctorum
and take one long look at his secretary.
For IL is now part of the business
girls code to dress well. Not in grand
spurts, but always. When she is look
ing for a position; when she has it, and
more especially, when she has lost it.
In other words. it is a part Of her
business training.
But IL most certainly isn't part OF her
training and she most assuredly
doesn't display good common sense IL
she rigs herself out regardlessly in
silks and satins and reserves the
calicos and rags for the privacy Of her
two-by-four hall bedroom. Dangling
do-dads and flying ends don't make
favorable impressions on sensible busi-
ness men and the girl hunting fora po-
sition is quicker than any one else to
notice that. but she knows In her heart
OF hearts that a well-cut tailor suit,
fresh linen and smart boots will do
more for her than a packet OF recon-
mendations and letters.
And does she take advantage Of his
weakness? Well, rather. She isn't the
least bit gz1llible and she knows for an
absolute fact that Mr.. Man takes her
IN from the top OF her head to the soles
OF her shoes, even though he might
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tell a single. solitary thing that shs