The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-29
WOMEN IN BUSINESS.

Some people suppose that business
men have little or no trouble with their
helpers. especially those who pay good
salaries. The public has the idea that
man or woman must measure up 10
a certain standard or be discharged,
and In theory that Is the way. but In
practice there are many exceptions to
this rule.
There are hundreds and thousands
of incompetent persons all over the
land, and 1t is quite likely there al
ways will be. Women In ofices and
business houses who are there chiehy
to draw their salaries are more nu-
merous than worthless men, since there
is always less mercy shown to men.
OF course there are employers who Will
not tolerate incompetent helpers OF
either sex for any reason. but Jew
business men are able to harden their
hearts when importuned to help out
friend in distress.
saws a writer in The News-Leader:
Husbands die, leaving widows who
must support families; fathers leave
daughters suddenly helpless. and disas-
ters and troubles make 1t necessary
for all sorts Of women to ind employ
ment who never dreamed of such
thing.
Friends cast about for some. work
within the capacity Of the unfortunate
woman, and some business man 10 sure
to be asked to take her out OF kind
ness. 1t may be social or poiitical or
religious reasons come UP TO force the
man to take her .pgalnst his Will, or
his friendship Tor the family may Inn
pei to Offer her q place. thinking she
viii be able to handle the work,
A young lady wanted to take up
typewriting as a fad. SO she persuaded
-. <otha~ "a Give hap nlacA In a fac
tory in which he owned great deal
of stock. The manager could not at
ford to offend the wealthy stockhoider,
but the incompetent girl was the trial
of his life. On rainy days she would
appear in a cab about 10 o'clock II she
came at all, and she would be absent
for every reception and tea the town
boosted. Worse than all, she had the
peculiar slanting penmanship anected
by young ladies few years ago, SO
that the men who had to decipher her
scrawls fairly tore their hair over her
work.
she chatted and ate candy and
laughed and did everything but work'
and the patient and long-sunering com
petent workers in the office had to DC
and undo her work constantlq. There
was a general celebration when her en-
gagement was announced. and the once
force thankfully sent an expensive GIT
to speed the parting.
Perhaps the greatest nuisance or al
| in business life is the woman who man
ages. by hook or crook, to keep in tins
social life her former financial circum
| stances warranted, and who presumei
upon this relation with her employer
| To her the office Is always parlor
and everyone must show her the SAM
consideration she receives in the houses
of her friends. Discipline Is for TN
| others, but for her-never.
The rules laid down for the Others
never apply to her. and an outside
would imagine she was present onI!
as a guest. Her mistakes, her lapse
from business methods, but frequen
requests for vacations--everything tina
her associates avoid--lmust be treate'
| in such a manner that her tende
feelings are not Injured.
One silly woman who worries TIL
life half out of her employer does no
earn half her salary as she dallies a
her desk day after day. She calls hin
| Fred" and stops him to retail bits o
| society news, besides staying up SO lat
night after night as to be un Was 10
| struggling young business man, he
father set him on his feet and CAV
him a start, so he cannot forget ina
timely help. The daughter knows this
her familiar ways and lack OF bust
ness ability.
for II w aaS w sSe Is not ftted By friend
who sympathize with her. her flrs
duty to her employer. herself and he
friends is to fit herself for the work
| The fact that you once wore diamond
and trailed your silken gowns through
marble halls does not interest your EN-
ployer, but a clean page clear oraii
and steady nerves do.
He is paying for well-kept books, &C
curate statements, careful work an
conformity to rules, not for q dolefu
account Of what you did before eN,I tn, tn
pity yourself, do it In private. You
employer may continue to employ you
because he is sorry for you or Is In
debted to some member of your family
but don't worry the life out of the poo
man. You VIII win your on wa, 70 nj nj
favor by being promtbPI' e enc w. &c e
more contented.