The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-02-03

that business houses generally IRE.
ferred women for private secretaries
because they keep the secrets of their
employers business better than men
do. He said this might sound strange
at. first thought, but experience had
proved it to be a fact. Men clerks
gossip concerning their employers af.
fairs and let out trade secrets to
much greater extent than women do.
A case in point is well known to have
occurred during the summer Just
passed, where the private dealings of
one of the largest business corpora.
tons in the world were involved. The
those private affairs than even the di.
rectors Of the company themselves,
because she was the one who kept
track Of these, was a certain young
woman private secretary. Brides were
offered to her. she was fattered, she
was threatened she was coaXed, she
was interviewed time and again in the
hope that she might let fall some care.
less word, but she never was trapped.
The newspapers called her at length
the sphinx and gave her up. This
young woman is said to receive $4,000
year for her services. Then there is
that secret society of women called the
Il. +. .. | don't know what it is; no.
body outside of it does know All the
members will tell is that. for one thing,
they are banded together in the cause
of wOman-tO aid in the progress and
elevation of their own sex. The mem.
bers of this mysterious order scarcely
permit even their names TO be dis
covered. yet whenever these become
known they are those of cultured, in
teiiectuaI. deeply thoughtful women.
But they Keep their mouths shut, absO-
lutely.
This appears to be the talking in,
carnatioH of some people.
There are three kinds Of girls "in
business as it is called one kind is
the fiibberty girl. who uses her wages
only to get gay clothes wherewith she
may capture some man and get away
from earnin. her living as she fOndly
imagnes This girl si,irks her work,
goes to parties nights. has her head
full of Man with Il large NJ and is no
good to anybody. Then there is the
OK girl who works when she is hitched
up 50 to speak quits when the day Ia
nd tn hnr Stail with
thought beyond drawing her pay. with
no ambition. no aspiration for advance
ment, promotion Or Improving herself
The third kind of girl is the wide
awake one, whose mind is on her work
before all else. She looks ont for every
opportunity to make herself useful and
to be advanced. She learns all she can
in every department Of her employers
undertakings and takes the interest in
them that she would in her own. II
opportunity for an independent enter
prise appears she is ready To seize 1t
and improve it, This kind of girl al.
ways Accumulates a competency. often
a fortune.
Miss Jean Jeanette purlacher is
business manager of a daily newspaper
i'm Laramie WyO. Miss DHriachcr I'M
Gerstands the newspaper business from
advertising to reporting. She is high
ly educated. gifted and as wide awake
as a newspaper manager needs to be in
order to get success.
AS we Journey through life let us
ever and anon stop and take dose Of
mind our own business.
MY sisters, when we think on our
mercies let us be thankful that soap Ia
cheap and water is plentiful.
Jolly good quotation from Eleanor
Kirk: IF you think you have good
thing keep It to yourself until you
are sure you have got 1t fast. Even
then don't be in hurry. Many good
loaf has been spoiled by slack baking"
Speaking Of her early attempts at
literature, Sarah Grand says sire "snf-
fered terribly from want of encourage
ment.' Heaven help ne, What wo-
man has not in whatever line Of en-
terprfse she has undertaken: The cut
ting chilling. sneering, III Dstured dis
couragement, Oftentimes even from
ones own parents, stabs like cold
steel. A woman never gets over 1t,
even when she IL too strong and brave
to be downed and goes On and achieves
in spite Of her family. But many
woman who otherwise would have
made for herself noble career has
had all the aspiration crushed out OF
her by the sneers of father, husband o.
brother. Heaven help them. too, 70
they will have 1t to answer for!
In a recent marital separation suit
the Judge decided that man is mas
ter of his own house." even when the
house. with everything in Il. belongs III
her own right to the wife. and that the
husband may forbid" bis wife's moth
er to visit his wife In the wife's house.
When and where are we living: Wo-