The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-25

who are filing positions requiring con-
siderable executive ability, which r pretty
sure to 20 hand in hand with some degree
Of system. To some extent these women
are able 10 arrange a scheme, TO adjust
into a smoothly working whole an assem-
blage Of things, but they do this in oonnec-
ton with an establishment or a business
equipped with a well defined system and
with a live man at It's head before they
took hold of a department. Whether
these women would. be so successful in the
role OF chief I am not sure; but I am inclined
to think they would not.
A woman who has been trained In a bust
ness concern, who began. say. as errand girl,
office attendant or stock girl and works
her way up to a responsible place, often
learns a good deal about system. Under
such circumstances l think system can be
learned. I am certain it cannot be ac-
quired in an institution OF learning. /
am also sure that, take some business women
out OF their env ronment and set them
up in an Independent venture, they will
drop almost Immediately into what / can
a systemless system. To illustrate:
"A relative Of mine left school at IS TO
work in u large manufacturing concern,
in which she rose TO a place second only
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l myself wondered at her success.
When she was 81 years old she married
a prosperous business man, a widower,
with two children and a good sized house.
who can afford to keep several servants;
He made no secret OF the fact that he selected
his wife because of her talent for managing,
for her systematic arrangement OF her
duties and busines engagements.
They have been married two years, and a
worse managed household from my point Of
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never known a meal to be serves in that
house on schedule time in spite Of the fact
that they live far enough out Of the city to
make 10 necessary for the man to travel in and
out by train: the children are quarrelsome.
unruly, unpunctual and SO usually, my wife
tells me, are III three servants. Their
mistress has lost her alert, confident, bust
ness air and looks IA II she a tackled a
job too hard for her, which il. indeed. exact
ly the case.
-In other words. she has no system by
which that household may be reduced to a
smoothly running, harmonious basis. She
could manage with ease a hundred or more
employees in a concern Of which she was
not the head, but where she is absolute
boss three servants are beyond her.
Gould a man do better? Perhaps not,
some men. But put a man trained for years
to systematic work in that house and dollars
to coppers he would evolve some sort OF
order and system. Apparently, II the ser
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livable proposition a man must tackle IL, for
women have proved conchlsively that it q
beyond them.
yes. ! am positive woman's system Of
managing servants is wrong. There is
nothing else TO think. In hotels, rastaur-
ants, apartments managed by men there is
far less trouble about securing and keeping
good servants than in private houses man
aRed by women and that fact alone is sug-
gestive. Another thing. men managers are
not worrying themselves abo 1t providing
private sitting rooms, pianos and sunny
sleeping rooms for their help, az il such
things meant the solving Of the whole
problem. They know a trick better than
that. They rely on system."
At a hotel noted for It's good service the
views Of a woman assistant were asked
on the subject OF system in connection with
the servant question.
There il no doubt that the reason many
women prefer TO work in 4 hotel is because
OF the almost infiexible system which pre-
walls, " she answered. in q hotel a woman
servant is never. sidetracked to do ten or a
dozen other things not In her regular lins of
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