The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-06-01

knowledge OF human nature, my en-
ployer read my fears pretty plainly
and he profited by my timidity, as most
employers will. He Wouldn't have Civ
en- me another cent to this day If / had
not asked for it.
1T is. Of course, true that the law
of supply and demand has much to do
with the amount of increase a girl can
expect, but the fact stands unchal-
lenged that a raise in the contents Of
her weekly envelope is seldom, if ever,
forthcoming unless a girl takes the
trouble to ask for it. The old fashioned
theory that our worth speaks for itself
and will receive its own reward is out
OF date. Women, lii men, u de-
mand nowadays before they can hope
to secure the desired money returns
for the work they do.
Back OF this demand, however, must
lie in every girls iii the inward as
surance that h knows how to do a
line of work. If she feels tina she can
do it a little better than the person
mex her, SO much the greater are her
nance of an increase in salary. MY
own experience has impressed this on
me forcibly, for nothing in the world
but lack of training could have kept
me SO long cowed in the SIS a month
position. I had no certain knowledge
OF, or experience in, n trade or SAL
aired occupation, n / lacked the ini-
tiative to start out and see what I could
do for myself with what natural abil-
tiles l possessed. 1t was that fatal
fear again and it stunted all chances
OF growth.
FINALLY, after three years I awoke
to h realization that 1 never could
earn any kind of a salary unless 1
could "a to an employer with as
surance. I know how to do this or that
and my experience warrants so much
salary Like many another girl,
night school was my solution of the
problem, n I tuck to 1t through all
disappointments until I had mastered
the preliminary training of the employ
ment 1 wished to take up. From that
time on my salary continued to grow
larger.
This has been my policy ever since;
to tit myself for a better position while
I have been holding one not SO good.
Then when I wanted a raise in salary IT
was forthcoming, or 1 have been pre-
pared to ask it from some other EN-
ployer. The old saying: Don't put all
your eggs in n basket, is a splendid
one for the business oma to keep
IN mind, when She is considering a raise
of salary.
Hence. my first and last advice to
a girl who wishes al increase in salary
Is to prepare herself for the position
which gives the better wages and the
salary will come OF itself. Above all
SAlii6S, bic HluSl uOI allow any muSh-
room growth OF success to deceive her
into the belief that a good regular sal
airy comes by anything save ability and
steady. uphill plodding."
On the other side of the question of
an increase in salary stands the man
who has to pay it. and his views with
regard to the problem are as enlighten-
ing as those of the woman who has
succeeded.
We reserve our good salaries for two
classes of girls is the dictum of the
busy manager. Those who can do
their work in just the way we like to
v 1t done, and those who do it in
a way peculiarly their own and a frac-
ton better than our way.
The former class of girls make 1T
evident In every little thing they do
from the moment they AXE their posi-
ton, that our interests are foremost in
their thoughts. If 1t happens to be a
stenographer, no letter ever passes
through her hands which she doesn't
fully understand, or which could pos
sibly be misconstrued. hat she does
not take it Immediately to the writer to
have him correct the error. And as