Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11
WHAT WORK CUPID FAVORS
Question Whether He Offers Better
Chance to Some Girls.
DOES OCCUPATION HELP ANYi
Most of the Young Women working
for Thei Livelihood AEree
They DO Not Intend to
Continue at Il.

Ask any woman who is engaged in earn
ing her livelihood behind a counter in one
of the big shops Of Omaha II she intends
TO make the occupation a life work. and
she will tell you, moi MOI Not at ALL"
This is a rule to which there are no ex-
%ceptions. Lottie the saleslady Is only there
pending what time she robes herself in
crepe de chine with real OF near-real. lace
trimmings and wears an "only ornament"
The same answer will be heard from all
the fair stenosraphers, the cashiers, mil
hnery apprentices, factory and office girls,
and all the host of those who earn their
own living, provided that she be not of
what Is absurdly called an uncertain age
This being the case an inquiry as to
which occupation soon leads to the
hymeneal altar will have almost a socio-
logical value. and n It should be found
that the domestic leads, announcement OF
the fact might even go a long way toward
solving the servant question.
Not, Of course, that any girl who wishes
to get married would take any overt steps
toward that purpose. The idea Is, of
course, base. unworthy, despicable, on the
part OF the rash man suggesting 1t, but It
would be interesting to know whether more
salesgiris marry than stenographers. OF II
the cashier has anything on the hello girl.
CuDid Likes the Nurse.
Careful research, study OF census re-
turns, the wedding license book in the
county clerks office, inquiry Of department
store managers, switchboard superintend-
ents and hospital matrons leads to the
irresistible conclusion that the nurse has
the best drag" with Cupid. Long ago old
Sir Walter noticed when pain and anguish
wiring the brow etc.; and the minister
ing angel role is still successful and bids
fair to be 80 to the end of time.
For second place It IL a close race be-
tween the cashier and the telephone girl.
The former occupation is at an advantage
because restaurant proprietors, in par
ticular, always pick as comedy a maiden as
possible for the position, well knowing that
their masculine patrons are more apt to
return IL the girl who hands back the
change has an abundance OF feminine
charms. But selecting a pretty girl with
malice prepense, these same restaurant
men have no right to complain-though
they do just the same-that they simply
cannot keep q girl long.
OF telephone romances there are many.
The daily papers are persistently narrating
the nuptals of an hello girl whose soft and
low voice has melted masculine curiosity
as to it's owner and thus paved the way to
a fee for the parson.
Girls who Wait.
Although men have long been alleged to
be won by an appeal to their stomachs, 1t
does not appear that the average domestics
who change from '"Missis' kitchen to
their own is above that Of several other
occupations. In fact the waitress runs a
shade higher, and besides this sometimes
culls a cute little sum every week in tips
To the discredit OF the other sex, 1t must
De admitted, however, that male walters
get more and bigger tips than do women
chiefly for the reason that nobody gives q
tip except because he feels himself ex.
pected to and this is the case more often in
cafes where men wait on table than In the
hotel dining rooms where girls are en-
ployed.
Women who enter professional life
rarely marry. Many Of them. indeed,
could if they would. but won't. They are
often in earnest when they assert that they
are welded TO their work. Actresses dc
marry frequently, but, alas! do not always
stay married long. The stage is, of course
one OF the best matrimonial bureaus in tn,
world. ana for the Laura Jean Libbey wed
ding 1t has everything else in glo my OBJ
security. Here is where most Of your Kin,
Cophetua and beggar-maid affairs TAX,
place. the dashing chorus girl easily van
gushing everybody but heiresses in can
NNAhAb ~ OdpnCdus anu 10 IN q class Dl
herself when 1t comes to sharing Pittsbur,
milliona.res.
Problem In Complex.
While II Is demonstrable that some occu
pations give a girl the best opportunity, o
at least proportiona,ely more Of one voca
ton wed than ano her, the proposit on is
shade too complex to dismiss 1t SO easily
Some wed no matter what they did for
living; others would be condemned to oil,
dhood no matter how tenderly the,
soothed the anguished brow in the hospita
ward.
All things considered, Il may rashly b
asserted that the girl who gets marie,
Is the sweet young thing who Ceilings,
who appeals 20 masculine vanity by max nj
him fancy himself as the stardy oak roun,
which the aforesaid sweet young thin
wines itself, the so-caIled womanly woma1
who is only too of.en the br4ialess woman
Hence the injunction to be the clingston
variety OF peach.
But ask the girl who has not married an
abe will answer; THE girl who gets MAJ
risa first is the one who takes the first ma
who comes along"