The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-03-01

rattle TIN cup on the street corner
or ask for checks across Tie break
last table. Don forget your pocket
book whcnyou count up your hlc. .ings.
1t may be light. bnt it is your own.
"ou.i urge you, as Il matter Of
sense aud happiness, to adopt wha,
Stephenson called "ihat brave at,i-
tuIc towards lfc. " Be.chccriul. All
the world loves bright face and
genial smile. The siliicst thing wo-
man ever does Is to cultivate a martyr
pose. Suppose you do belong to an
aristocratic'oli family, and never cx-
pected to have to work. Nobody on
earth cares one rap abou, that or
wants to hear about your ancestors,
and the quicker you forget about them
yourself the better. 1t isn't sympa-
thctic 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 bust
ness way. All of US turn to cheerful
people just as naturally as wo turn to
the sunshine, and we fee dull people
and complaining people like we do the
plague.
Be feminine. / think the most
fatal mistake any woman ever makes
is when she tries to make an imita.
tion man of herself. limitations are
never any good, and the working wo-
man who wears mannish clothes and
short hair and swaggcrs and tries to
talk like man is the worst of the lot.
The very thing in woman's work that
ought to make it valuable, and that
will when women have sense enough
to quit trying to do thugs like men,
and do them like women, is its fcnii-
nine equality. The time will como
when woman's intuitions. her tact, ut d
her adap!uhility will count in bust
ness life just as they do now in social
aud when she loses these by coarsen-
Ing herself because she thinks it man
nish, she is simply lesscning her COM
mcrcial value.
l would also call your attention,
little sister, to the fact that it is
along the eternally feminine lines
that. women make the greatest sue
cesses. There is always going to be u
demand for good housekeeping, for
well.kept. boarding houses and hotels,
and for good making and MILL.
nery.!- am not discouragipg any girl
from studying law or medicine, or
any thing else she wants, but do say
that if she would put her same amount
d of study, training and Intelligence into
keepinga good boarding house or es-
tablishing.a frst-class dress. making
establishment, the rewards would be
ten times rgreater. The women in
every oity..who make money are the
ones who have followed those lines,
Bo polite. 1t pays. You haven t
any idea Of the wild gratitude that
surges up in the breast of nero GUS
toner when We find shopgirl who
takes any interest in us and tries TO
find US what we;want. Of course, we
are aggravating. l realize that; but
you sec we don't know what you have
in stock nor just what we want our
selves 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
q bore. Don't be superailious. Every
body can't wear silk stockings and $50
pe,ticoats and embroidered satin cor-
sets, yetswhen aswoman goes into a
store and sIasks.fo one of these arti-
cles, the'clerk invariably takes. down
something whose price is enough to
give one heart failure.
II want something cheaper" tho
poor, { humble creature before the
counter murmurs, and the way the
naughty divinity behind the counter
shoves the cheaper article at the buy
er is the NEST eloquent expression Of
disgust and contempt that the human
mind is capable of conceiving. Don't
do that We would all be million
aires if We could, but We can't. Bear
with our misfortune.
4 Don't know too much. This is q
favorite fault Of typewriters and
steDographers. Let your employer
know something, and let him manage
his business his own way. I knew q
clever and competent woman who lost
her good place because she persisted
in spelling "cinoh" cinque. She said
that was the right way. because it was
! derived from the French numeral, and
she brought down alot ofrdictioparies