The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-10-06

I 4 building the other day, her nose in the air, her face flushed with indignation.
 "The idea!'' she exclaimed to a wait I ing friend. That horrid man told me that he expected his clerks to wear high linen collars and not a low neck waist. Just as if my waist could be called low neck!"
 I The girl was wearing a white cotton waist cut round at the throat and fin ished with a narrow edging instead of a high neckband. Tn place of the neck band was a string of blue beads. I Afterward in speaking of the occur renee the unappreciative employer. who seemed 10 be anything but hard heart ed said:
 l T am awfully tired of seeing dressed have any more of them. These are not show parlors.
 "The women clerks don't have to re- ceive visitors nor to entertain custo- mers. Stenographers and typewriters are here to do that work and nothing else.
 T believe there are still offices in this city who like to make show-piece of the stenographer, just as there are res taurants which employ none but ex- ceedingly pretty cashiers; but they are comparatively few and far between. The great majority of business houses make no distinction between men and women.
 l Tn fact in the business world. to- day I the question of sex is not considered in laying down rules. If woman wants to compete with man and do it successful fly she must not look for special privi- lleges
 Now, in the case of dress, for in stance. I think woman's business dress ought to be neat inconspicuous. serviceable. Gauzy fabrics which re-. veal the neck and arms, chains. float ling ribbons and fiashy jewelry are, cer-. tainly not appropriate accessories to a business uniform.
 'tI remember one day I wanted some l dietation taken in hurry and I sent I for one of the best women stenogra- lphers we, have. She came, and began to fire off the sentences, trying to con- lcentrate my thoughts so as to make the letters as strong as I wanted them to l be- They were in relation to an impor- tant deal was trying to put through and they needed to be carefully worded. ] stAs I went on I became conscious that something was annoying me and I discovered that it was rattling, jing- l ling sound, not loud, but incessant. l looked at the stenographer. She was wearing on her right wrist bangle bracelet hung with 8 lot of trinkets, and every time her pencil moved the trim kets started jingling.
 "'Will you please take off that con- founded thing?' said as soon as To- cated the noise. Why in thunder do you want to wear such a trinket to a business office, anyway
 "At first the girl got white, she was so scared, then she turned red with wrath. But she took off the nuisance and she also took herself off, not to. re- turn when pay day came round. was sorry to lose her, and the experience gave me an idea which have since followed
 "It is this: When young woman applies for job I tell her the rule of the house is plain attire, high collars, Inc obtrusive jewelry. Then if she wants to get mad and walk out with her head in the air don't care rap.
 ,sI made the discovery long ago that the girl who is very much fixed up in. business hours generally works With her J eye on the clock and puts her hat on at 1 least five minutes before 1t is time to go, and that sort never becomes valuable to her employer, no matter how smart she may be at her work.
 'tWhat are some of the personal at | tributes which recommend girl who applies for stenographer's placer was asked of the superintendent of a big retail concern in the heart of the city.
 "Neatness, for one he replied, with out hesitation. And first of all I no- tice her hands.
 eff they are clean and, fairly well looked after she is generally the sort \ want to hire, provided her speed is sat- Iisfaetory. Ninety-nine tirnes out of q hundred if her clyothes are mussy and llintidy she's no good, or at best is 9. third rate worker.
 T also distrust the girl who wears an I enormous picture hat with plumes standing in the air and lot of cheap tf1nery. A certain degree of style al ways carries considerable weight, A Ismartly dressed, stylish girl invariably commands more attention more favor