Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-01-18

life, and that is something many a rich woman
never experiences. She is a begger from the cradle
to the grave, and asking aims is a humiliation
whether you rattle tin cup the street corner or
ask for checks across the breakfast table. Don't
forget your pOcketbOOk when you count up your
blessings. It may be light but 1t ia your own.
would also urge you, as a matter Of sense and
happiness, to adopt what Stephenson called s'that
brave attitude towards life" Be cheerful. All the
world loves bright face and genial smile. The
silliest thing a ever does is to cultivate
martyr pose. Suppose you do belong to an aristO-
cratic family, and never expected to have to work.
Nobody on earth cares rap about your ancestors
and the quicker you forget about them yourself the
better. 1t isn't sympathetic and it may not be right
but everybody has horror of people who have tales
OF woe to tell Don't join their number. Keep
bright face, and it will pay Just in business way
All OF us turn to cheerful people Just naturally as
we turn to the sunshine, and we fee from dull peO-
pie and complaining people like we do the plague
i Be feminine think the most fatal mistake any
woman ever makes is when she tries to make an i'm
itation man Of herself limitations are never any
good, and the working woman who wears manish
clothes and short hair, and swaggers and tries to
talk like man is the worst OF the lot. The very
thing in wOman's work that ought TO make it valua
BILE, and that will when women have sense enough
to quit trying to do things like men, and do them like
women, is its feminine quality. The time will come
when wOmen's intutions, her tact, and her adapta.
biity will count in business e Just as they do now
in social, and when she loses these by cOarsening
herself because she thinks it manish she is simply
lessenng her commercial value
/ would also call your attention. little sister, to
the fact that it is along the eternay feminine lines
that women make the greatest success. There is
always going to be demand for good housekeeping
for Well-kept boarding houses and hotels, and for
good dress-making and millinery. I am not dis
cOuraging any girl from studying law or medicine,
or anything else she wants. but do say that II she
would put the same amount OF study, training and
intelligence into keeping good boarding house,
establishing first class dress making establishment
the rewards wOHld be ten times greater. The women
in every city who make money are the ones who,
have followed those lines.
Be polite It pays. YOn haven't any idea Of the
wild gratitude that surges up in the breast Of mere
customer when we find q shOpgirl who takes any in
terest in u.s. and tries to find us what we want. OF
course, are aggravating, I realize that, but, you
see don't know what you have in stock, nor just
what want ourselves half the time. We are
bound to look about Bit and it's heart breaking
to timid woman to know she is being considered
nuisance and bore. Don't be .superoilious.
Everybody can't wear silk stockings and $50 petit
coats and embroidered satin cOrsets, yet when q
woman goes into store and asks for one Of these
articles the clerk invariably takes down something
whose price is enough to give one heart failure
al want something cheaper" the poor humble
creature before the counter murmurs, and the way
the naughty devinity behind the counter shoves the
preston of digust and contempt that the human
mind is capable Of conceiving Don't do that We
would all be milliOnaires II we could but we can't
Bear with our misfortune.
| Don't know too much. This is q favorite fault Of
typewTiters and stanOgraphers. Let your employer
know something, and let him manage his business
his own way. knew a clever and competent WOm-
an who lost her good place because she persisted in
spelling ''cinchn cinque. She said that was the
right way, because it was derived from the French
numeral, and she brought down lot Of dictionaries
to prove it. She carried the point but her employ
er got somebody who would let him boss his own
spelling.
Don't lirt with your employer, wheather he is mar
ried or single Don't go out to lunch with him.
Business is one thing and society is another II he
wants to pay you attention, let it be in your own
home not in the Office store. If you are working
for married man, don't let him tell you about his
domestic inielicities and how he made mistake in
marriage, and his wife doesn't understand and svm
pathize with him. You are not hired to be q com
fOFter. by dear little sister, pull the man uD short
who starts to tell yOn about his home troubles It's
very easy to listen It's very hard tO refuse when
he is your employer, and our place depends on his
favor, but don't do it. From svmpathv IN love is
the shortest step in the world and many a step has
taken it before she knew it. The married man who
talks to another woman about bis wife Is q bastard
Have nothing to do with him
Finally beloved, never forget that there is always
demand for good work. II is because wOmens
work IS 90 often bad that il is SO poorly paid.
Every working woman should remember that when
she does bad work that she hurts net only herself
but every other woman. NOblesse 0blige Was the
motto Of the old French arist0crat Let us adopt it
for our own and make il mean that every working
woman Is in honor bound TO give Of her best and
to so work and live that she win make the road
easier Ter every woman Who shall eome after her.