Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1905-10-21
WORKING GIRLS CHANCES.
CHOOSE CONGENI4L OCCUPATION
THEN HOLD FAST TO THE
FIRST GOOD JOB.
1t is Not the Kind of Work but h
Manner of Working That Brings
Forth the Dollars.

IL IS MOI the KIND OF Work DuI tns
Manner of Working That Bring:
Forth the Dollars.
at is not my speciality, madame
said the little French milliner who had
just finished a beautiful beruched hal
for ME, when l asked her to make one
Of those pretty mousseline shoulder
ruches and she would do nothing out.
side her speciality. So 1t Is in all the
big cities where women flock to make
a living or a name; whether in Paris,
London, New York, chicago, San Fran.
cisco, one must have ones highly per
fected speciality in order to win even
moderate recognition.
Don't scatter" is the very best ad.
vice to the girl worker. "Oh. | know
how to do ever so many things says
the latest entry on the books of a big
employment agency.
can you cook p asks the manageress
with breathless eagerness.
Yes" Is the reply rather shame
facedly.
Good! I'll put you down under
Cooks"
But, I don't want to cook. I've been
through our academy and I've gradu-
ated in all the latest accomplishments.
Besides, I've come up to the city TO
make money-a lot of money"
You'll make a lot of money II you'll
cook" says the manageress in her take
%my-advice tone. why. any girl that
can pretend to cook, il she don't know
a sOuffle from a hoe cake can make
more money in this town than a whole
class of academy graduates with ten
accomplishments apiece
1t is not the kind of work. but the
manne of working that brings in the
dollars.
A girl of twenty-three. thrown sud
denly on her own resources, made the
lives of her friends miserable by a
constant cry of What can | do?' A
yellow streak of snobbishnesS made 1t
all the more difficult to help her. With
out even facility in writing. she begged
assistance in becoming a paid con-
tributor to a scandalmongering news
paper. Fortunately, she lacked as
much in perseverance as in literary
ability. Her next venture was In
trained nursing: but. being placed in
the colored ward, her southern pre-
JUDGES drove her out of the hospital
just three days later than her date of
entry. From a spasmodic effort to ae-
! quire q knowledge of stenography. she
set out on a quest for a place as nurs-
cry governess. A practical friend met
her Just after her first rebuff, and
much against her will pushed her into
a Situation in n fashionable millinery
establishment, at So a week. Now 1t
developed that trimming hats is that
girls gift.
1t usually takes about three years in
the workshops of the swell milliners
to arrive at the degree of proficiency
which commands a salary of $50 per
week, but the girl in question made
hats for her friends evenings. Her
friends sent their friends. and inside of
a year she had saved enough to n
a trip to Paris during the summer.
She bought not a single model Il
gathered impressions. went back to
New York, rented n couple of rooms
in a side street between the shonping
and the residence sections. dropped a
little note to each of her patrons saying
she had taken a flyer ~abroad-and the
rest was easy.
Choose a Congeniai Occupation.
The secret Of success is finding out
ones special bent or talent. Usually
the thing that it is easiest to do, tnat
one likes best to do. is the work IN
which one will be able to MAKE greatest
progress. A very few are favored with
inspiration along original lines. Some
unfortunates commit the folly of choos-
ing a profession or trade because of
the results secured in it by others,
rather than because of any personal
inclination or adaptability.
Voluminous statistics show that a
girl need not be limited in her choice
of work, for some one hundred and fifty
occupations. meeting every need or de-
sire of existence-from doctor to I'M
dertaker-have already been exploited
by women. However, for the average
girl, comparatively few trades and pro-
fessions seem within her scope. out
side of the enormous number who be-
come teachers, very few women are
afforded the opportunity to acquire a
profession consequently, certain trades
required for carrying on of routine
work in business offices, shons n
factories, have come to be regarded as
the only money-making channels open
to the girls who arrive at the end OF
their school days confronted with the
question, "What shall l do for a hv-
ingf"
Always Room for Good Ones.
Most discouraging of all the obstacles
to the girl seeking her living Is the
constantly repeated falsehood that the
occupations open to the average female
intelligence are overcrowded. Thirty
years z the same statement was
made to almost every female applicant
for employment as bookkeeper, clerk
agent, stenographer, saleswoman. etc.
At that time less than one per cent. oil
all the women wage arner were EN-
ployed In clerical positions. In twenty
wears the percentage of women in thi'
class increased to five per cent. OF tn
total employed. while the figures of tn
last census promise a still more en-
couraging advance. 1t Is furthe
| shown that in the last decade of tn
r 10Th century the number of woma'
hookkeepers in the United States In
-. = n Ann - r..-han n