The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-27

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AIT is for homely features to keep
''They had their name hence
! Maybe r c. care Herald, had Mil
toms quotation in mind when she
| framed the above advertisement
Maybe she didn't It's of no matter;
she got the job PROOF The adVer-
! tisement came out the second day, fol-
lowing the receipt OF half Z, dozen an
| sWers.
The fact that the girl played up"
| her good looks in the very fore of the
/ advertisement and even went SO far as
| to have the word GOOD" set in upper
| case goes to show that she had -
| strongly developed bunch that there
is some magic in looks when it comes
to getting position, that is, when II
! comes TO girls getting a position,
! To see, if her ''hunch" was not indeed
correct and that "a good looking young
/ girl might not more easily obtain a
/ position than one who did not chance
to be blest by pleasing features some
/ Salt Lake business and professional
| men, men who ought to know" were
| interviewed on the subject yesterday
Odds on Pretty Girl.
Here's what one said, almost the first
exclamation he made:
| The chances OF a good looking girl
| getting employment are just 100 TO I
against those of a hOmely girl
There you are 1t doesn't make any
difference what the bdrds said against
( womanly beauty. 1t makes little diff
ference that several OF the Old-timeTs
| who were accounted wise i'm their age
cry out against beauty; this is a differ
ent age. and if pOesy once scOffed. com
! mercialism now wOrships. at Beauty's
shrine.
Socrates called beauty short lived
tyranny" In view of the fact that
mrs Socrates was not beautiful and
that her tyranny was likewise no.
short lived the mOderns may draw their
own inference
Thinks "R. C."-Is Wise.
/ At any rate. Socrates ct al aside. a
member Of the managerial force of one
of the leading dry goods stores, when
! interviewed yesterday ON the subject.
] expressed it as mis- opinion that the girl
I who advertised in the Herald was wise.
I BE thought that if she could live UP 10
her description she would stand a much
better chance Of getting the position
/ she desired than hOmely girl
Asked as to the rules which governed
him in his selection of girls as en-
! plOyes for the store he said:
/ As a rule we endeavOr in employing
I help to find good looking girls. That
| is TO say. if we have two applications
for position, one from a good looking
/ girl the other from a girl of plain fes-
I lures. without question the good
1 locker gets the place. You can't set
! away from the fact that d girl Of
pretty features will attract sales and
/ please customers and as we endaav0r
to please customers and attract sales
| we must give the good looking girls
| preference.
So YOU see the chances Of the good
/ looking girl TO get a position are greatly
IN her favor However, the prettiest
girls DO not often make the best sales
women. A girl may be eyer so pretty.
but have certain mannerisms that viii
greatly dlsplease customers In that case
] she IS not as valuable her hOmely
sister who outs forth every effort TO
make I'D natures defects 1t is often
the case that hOmely girls, realizing that
they must overcome their handicap. be
come highly efficient through striving just
so much harder
But was suggested, you have said
that homeIy girls are not often employed.
How are you going TO demonstrate their
/ well. here's an instance Only few
days ago I was approached by a young
/ with her regarding her experience and
[ commented 20 myself that she was not
she was homeiy. Z also Observed that she
seemed TO understand her business I
told her to see Mr.. --.
HomeIy, But "Craekeriaok."
after she had seen him he came 10
me and said: That woman isn't peach
by a long sight. but she's a cracIzerjack
Did she get the Job" was asked.
No, but we are so favOrably impressed
InaL she VIII at the tIrst OpOrptunlty-
! The whole thing Is largely a matter
Of personality That is the big factor.
II s surprising how some girls viii sroW
on the management of q large store
They may not fayorably impress one By
/ their looks, DuI they snow such ability
| that one can't get along without them:
! they become invaluable.
/ For instance, / was approached by the
1 head of one of our departments recently
who said; Say. who is that woman over
| in the - department ! ought 10 see
her bur hate to, she looks so fOrbidding'
/ We'll, you so over and see her I
| told him. He did 50 and in about twenty
minutes he returned and said. That
mans all right she knows her business
from A to e.
( At this point the speaker seemed 10
1 nearly get enthusiastic over the pOssibil-
| warm COMPARED with his picture of how
useful pretty girl might become to a
I firm If she combined with good looks a
little Grace of manner and tact. Indeed.
one glancing through. his interview a few
paragraphs above viii find the expression
TO hOmely girls that have ability If that
isn't about as unscented bouquet in the
way of compliment for the hOmely girl
as one could pick. one might be interested
10 know what was reserved in the bou-
To sum IN" resumed he of the man.
agerial staff. i may say that as a gen
TO get a position but that if homely
girl manages somehow to get there. looks
atone for inability or lack Of personal
Walk Down the Aisles-
1 Inc speaker SuESEStEu s1L THIS point
that a walk through the store with an
other member of the firm might be profit
! able. The walk was taken and disclosed
! some new things. First. that out of sew
enty-fiVe girls employed at the store,
there are less than half dozen that any
mere 2can would fail TO surrender TO,
whether over a lace counter, peFchance,
/ or under less DrOSaic circumstances
! You may that the chances in
favor of the good looking girl as against
! the homely girl are just 100 to ]. - the sec
ond man to be interviewed assured the in
Cuirer
- dare say you can walk from one end
a. $50 efs-n TO the other and see not
more than five or six girls who could moi
900 lOOkius- OF course SONS
7 are better looking than others Many
; ! are beautiful women. Only a few nightE
/ ago several Chicagoans. having mercan-